Author: Waugh, Earle H.
Title: Visionaries of Silence : The Reformist Sufi Order of the Demirdashiya al-Khalwatiya in Cairo
Description: Cairo, American University in Cairo, 2008. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, x,203,(4) pp.. 4pp photoplates.. ISBN: 9789774160899. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: History & Religious Backround of the Demirdashiya; The Khalwatiya & Social & Political Institutions; Reform through the Liturgical & Religious Life of the Tariqwa; A Dermidash Reformist Writer: Qut al-Qulub in Cairo & Europe; Constructing a Place for SIlence: Architecture & the Khalwatiya Sense of Religious Space; Amid the Storm: The Return of Shaikh Ahmad al-Dermidash & the Reformist Evolution;Glossary;Appendices.

Keywords: 9789774160899 Islamic Mysticism, Mystical Islam, History of Religion, Sufism, Demirdash Sufis, Demirdashiya, Khalwatiya Sufi, Theology, Modern Egypt