Written in lucid narrative form, Sufism: A Global History represents the first global account of the history of Sufism as a major factor in shaping societies and cultures in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and ultimately Europe and the United States.[...]

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in th[...]

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the r[...]