Further Reading

General References

Akbarnia, Ladan, with Francesca Leoni. Light of the Sufis. The Mystical Arts of Islam. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2010. 

The Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE (EI3), 3rd edition. Edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Ernst, Carl. Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2016.

Green, Nile. Sufism: A Global History. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Karamustafa, Ahmet. Sufism: The Formative Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 

Knysh, Alexander D. Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Renard, John. Historical Dictionary of Sufism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005.

Ridgeon, Lloyd, ed. Routledge Handbook on Sufism. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

Online Resources

Akbar’s Chamber – Experts Talk Islam: https://akbarschamber.podbean.com/

Let’s Talk Religion: https://itsfilipholm.com/let-s-talk-religion

Sacred Footsteps: https://sacredfootsteps.com/

Ajmer

Alam, Muzaffar. The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750. New York: State University of New York Press, 2021.

Bokhari, Afshan. “The ‘Light’ of the Timuria: Jahan Ara Begum’s Patronage, Piety, and Poetry in 17th-Century Mughal India.” Marg 60, no. 1 (2008): 52–56.

Chida-Razvi, Mahreen, “A Sultan before a Padshah? Questioning the identification of the turbaned figure in Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings.” In Art, Trade, and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond: From the Fatimids to the Mughals, edited by Alison Ohta, Rosalind Wade Haddon. London: Ginko, 2016, 205–14.

Currie, P.M. The Shrine and Cult of Mu‘īn al-Din Chishtī of Ajmer. Oxford: Oxford University South Asian Studies Series, 1989. 

Ernst, Carl W., and Bruce B. Lawrence. “Major Chishti Shrines.” In Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Ewing, Katherine Pratt. “Creating New Sufi Publics at an Old Sufi Shrine.” The Immanent Frame. June 11, 2019. https://tif.ssrc.org/2019/06/11/creating-new-sufi-publics-at-an-old-sufi-shrine/.

Rice, Yael. “Inner Visions: Fragments from the Unseen World.” In The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.

Ardabil

Anzali, Ata. “Sufism in the Safavid Period.” In The Safavid World, edited by Rudi Mathee. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 

Babayan, Kathryn. Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs 35. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2002.

Blair, Sheila. “Proclaiming Sovereignty: The Ardabil Carpets.” In Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 

Canby, Sheila R. Shah ‘Abbas: The Remaking of Iran. London: British Museum Press, 2009.

Melville, Charles. “Shah ʿAbbas’s Patronage of the Dynastic Shrine at Ardabil.” Muqarnas Online 37, no. 1 (October 2, 2020): 111–38. 

Rizvi, Kishwar. The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran. I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian Studies Series 5. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011.

Blagaj

Akın, Esra. Muthanna. Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

De Jong, Frederick. “The Iconography of Bektashiism. A survey of themes and symbolism in clerical costume, liturgical objects and pictorial art.” Manuscripts of the Middle East 4 (1989): 7–29.

Elsie, Robert. The Albanian Bektashi: History and Culture of a Dervish Order in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Karamustafa, Ahmet. “Sarı Saltuk Becomes a Friend of God.” In Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, edited by John Renard. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009, 136–44.

Kuehn, Sara. “The Literal and the Hidden: Some Bektashi Religious Materialities.” In Shi‘i Materiality Beyond Kerbala: Religion That Matters, edited by Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik, and Christian Funke. Boston: Brill, 2024.

Kuehn, Sara. “A Saint ‘On the Move’: Traces in the Evolution of a Landscape of Religious Memory in the Balkans.” In Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacements of Spiritual Power Across Time and Place, edited by Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo G. Pinto. Boston: Brill, 2020.

Yürekli, Zeynep. Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire: The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2012.

Cairo

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. “Craftsmen, Upstarts and Sufis in the Late Mamluk Period.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 74, no. 3 (2011): 375–95.

Biegman, Nicolaas. Living Sufism: Sufi Rituals in the Middle East and the Balkans. Cairo and New York: The American University Press.

Hofer, Nathan. The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Ibrahim, Mohammad Saani. “The Burdah as a Sufi and Healing Document.” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30, no. 1 (2013): 128–39.

Cirebon

van Bruinessen, Martin. “Sufi ‘Orders’ in Southeast Asia: From Private Devotions to Social Network and Corporate Action.” In Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives, edited by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018, 125–52. 

Gade, Anna. “Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo.” In Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, edited by John Renard. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2009, 341–58.

Laffan, Michael Francis. The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Otte, Jaap. “Report on the Documentation of the Architecturally Used Ceramics at the Mausoleum of Sunan Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Java, Indonesia.” Unpublished, 2022.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364347248_Report_on_the_Documentation_of_the_Architecturally_Used_Ceramics_at_the_Mausoleum_of_Sunan_Gunung_Jati_Cirebon_Java_Indonesia.

Sumarsam. The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts: History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2024. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/121045/.

bin Tajudeen, Imran. “Trade, Politics, and Sufi Synthesis in the Formation of Southeast Asian Islamic Architecture.” In A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, edited by F. B. Flood and G. Necipoğlu. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Son, 996–1022.

Fez

Ogunnaike, Oludamini. “Performing Realization: The Sufi Music Videos of the Taalibe Baye of Dakar.” AFRICAN ARTS 51, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 26–39. 

Paoletti, Giulia. “On Islam and Portraiture: Lithography, Glass Painting, and Photography in Senegal.” Art History 45, no. 4 (September 1, 2022): 774–97. 

Roberts, Allen F. and Mary Nooter Roberts with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye. A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003.

Ross, Eric. “Senegal’s Sufi Cities: Places beyond the State” In Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacements of Spiritual Power Across Time and Place, edited by Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo G. Pinto. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, 366–93.

Sylla, Abdou, and Richard George Elliott. “Islam and Philosophy: The Question of Figuration in Islam and Senegalese Reverse Glass Painting.” Art in Translation 10, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 277–301. 

Wright, Zachary. Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Harar

Ahmed, Hussein. Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia: Revival, Reform, and Reaction. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2001.

Gori, Alessandro. “Text Collections in the Arabic Manuscript Tradition of Harar: The Case of the Mawlid Collection and of šayḫ Hāšim’s al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī.” In The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts, edited by Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich, and Marilena Maniaci. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, 59–74. 

Trimingham, J. Spencer. Islam in Ethiopia. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Uhlig, Siegbert, and Alessandro Bausi. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vols. 1–5. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2003–2014.

Zekaria, Ahmed. “Some Remarks on the Shrines of Harar.” In Saints, Biographers, and History in Africa. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004, 19–30.

Konya

Elias, Jamal. “Mevlevi Sufis and the Representation of Emotion in the Arts of the Ottoman World.” In Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018.

Jackson, Cailah. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rūm, 1270s–1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Jackson, Cailah. Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400: A Study of the Sources. 1st ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. 

Lewis, Franklin. Rumi: Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teaching and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi. Oxford and Boston: Oneworld, 2000.

Renard, John. Rumi: A Life in Pictures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Tanındı, Zeren. “Examples of Mesnevî’s in Islamic Book Art.” In On the Facsimile Edition of the Original Copy (Nuskhā-i Qadīma) of the Mathnawī. Konya: Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate Publications, 2022, 61–93.