Shii News – ‘the Qalandars of Late Safavid Iran’ – L Ridgeon

Short Back and Sides in: Journal of Sufi Studies Volume 6 Issue 1 (2017)

Qalandars have often been depicted in negative terms in medieval and pre-modern literature by Sufis themselves, clerics and historians. Treatises composed by Qalandars are rare, thus the possibility of producing a balanced survey of their form of Sufism and contribution to the socio-political and religious climate of any given period is difficult.

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