Thus Spake The Dervish Sufism Language And The Religious Margins In Central Asia 14001900 Alexandre Papas Caroline Kraabel by Alexandre Papas; Caroline Kraabel 9004398503, 9789004398504 instant download after payment.

Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world.
The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France).