Presents a survey of the indigenous pre-Christian and pre-Muslim religions of Central Asia. This title describes a common inheritance among the beliefs of the various people who have lived in central Asia or have migrated from there: Scythians, Mongols, Manchus, Finns and Hungarians.
Sufism is Islam's principal mystical tradition. To its followers it provides the inner, esoteric or purely spiritual dimension of the faith. It is a centuries-old path to spirituality that has developed throughout the Islamic world, fundamentally influencing the religion and its followers, although to non-Muslim observers it remains mysterious and little-understood. Mystical Islam presents an accessible introduction that encompasses the full history and richness of the Sufi spiritual tradition.