Eşrefoğlu Rumi (d. 875/1469?) and Ümmî Kemal 880/1475?) are prominent practitioners of Ottoman Sufi (tekke) poetry—literature that emerged from the environment Anatolian orders. The parallel histories transmission their two divans help clarify details poets’ lives. Conversely, biographical facts may explain oddities those histories, which themselves also illuminate features late fifteent...

An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in London demonstrated simultaneous trust in psychiatrists as well as in the widespread use of healing amulets. At the same time, local Islamic clerics and traditional healers were seen by many with some degree of suspicion. The authors offer an interpretation in which local healers and their methods are regarded ambivalently: the more...

Abstract This article contributes to the wider historicity of female Sufi spiritual guides by engaging Indonesian examples about which very little have been written. While women can and do hold different levels rank leadership in orders (tariqah), usually among all-female congregations, this examines a rare example woman public position overseeing an entire tariqah network inclusive male discip...