The Sufi tradition as the 'other face' and 'soft core' of Islam is characterized by tolerance, humanism and the accommodation of differences. This book is an introduction to the concrete, practiced and lived forms of Islamic mysticism surveying the whole of the Muslim world with particular emphasis on South Asia as its demographic centre.
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen is Chief Curator of the Oriental Department at the Museum of Ethnology in Munich as well as Privatdozent (Private Lecturer) in Islamic Studies at the University of Munich.