This book comprises a series of specialized studies on Sufism and the social, cultural, and political manifestations of mysticism in the world today. The authors are a group of leading experts on the matter from seven different countries - Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Senegal, Bosnia and Herzegovina - and they broach a broad array of social, political, and cultural issues related to Sufism , in terms of both its intellectual and spiritual thought and its concrete realizations.