This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an
Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the
world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological
approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim
lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on
selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary
era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts, and
treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on
Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism.