Abstract
The papers in this volume emerge from the symposium ‘Sufism and Islam in Central Asia’, held 21–22 October 2011 at Princeton University. Altogether, ten of the papers presented at the symposium are included in the volume, which also features several high-quality maps, illustrations, and a thorough index. Its primary objective, and of the symposium that generated it, is to bring attention to one of the least-explored areas in the study of Sufism, namely its place in the modern and early-modern eras of Central Asia. This region has received ample attention in surveys of the ‘classical’ period of Sufism, with many prominent early representatives...