Fitzroy Morrissey is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. A specialist in Sufism and the intellectual history of the Islamic world, he is the author of Sufism and the Perfect Human (Routledge, 2020) and Sufism and the Scriptures (I.B. Tauris, 2020).

Introduction
List of Key Thinkers
Maps

Section 1. Revelation and Foundation
Chapter 1. The Qur'an and the First Believers
Chapter 2. Fragmentation

Section 2. Formation and Codification
Chapter 3. New Approaches
Chapter 4. Development and Codification

Section 3. Renewal and Revivification
Chapter 5. Mystical Revival
Chapter 6. Between Reason and Revelation

Section 4. Maturation and New Revivifications
Chapter 7. Synthesis
Chapter 8. New Revivifications

Section 5. Crisis and Dislocation (1800 - the present)
Chapter 9. Renaissance: The Rise of Islamic Liberalism and Modernism
Chapter 10. Responses to Dislocation: Islamism, Traditionalism and Secularism

Conclusion
Glossary of key terms

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