Elliott Bazzano & Marcia Hermansen 
Varieties of American Sufism [EPUB ebook] 
Islam, Sufi Orders, and Authority in a Time of Transition

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marcia Hermansen
1. The Message in Our Time: Changing Faces and Identities of the Inayati Order in America
Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond
2. The Golden Sufi Center: A Non-Islamic Branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya
William Rory Dickson
3. The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship: Diverse Identities and Negotiated Spaces
Merin Shobhana Xavier
4. A Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in America: Traditional Islam Meets American Hippies
Elliott Bazzano
5. The Mevlevi Order of America
Simon Sorgenfrei
6. From the Balkans to America: The Alami Tariqa in Upstate New York
Julianne Hazen
7. ‘There is an ‘I’ deeper than me’: The Ansari Qadiri Rifa’I Tariqa and Transcendence in America
Melinda Krokus
8. When the Divine Flood Reached New York: The Tijani Sufi Order among Black American Muslims in New York City
Rasul Miller
Contributors
Index

Elliott Bazzano is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Le Moyne College.
Marcia Hermansen, Professor of Theology and Director of Islamic World Studies at Loyola University Chicago, has written extensively on both South Asian and American Sufism, as well as trends in global Islam, including migration and gender studies.