Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty

“Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty is an insightful and textured case study of embodied, affective, and transformative elements of the religious tradition. The book opens up new avenues, not only in the study of Islam and modernity, but in broader dimensions of comparative religions and cultures.” —Marcia Hermansen, co-editor of Varieties of American Sufism

“This book is unmatched in the breadth of its engagement with Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī’s vast oeuvre and in its sophistication. Mian has provided us with an extraordinarily vivid sense of how the constraints of particular genres shape articulations of the Islamic tradition and what it has meant to inhabit and experience that tradition in conditions of modernity.” —Muhammad Qasim Zaman, author of Islam in Pakistan

Ali Altaf Mian is the Izzat Hasan Sheikh Fellow in Islamic Studies and assistant professor of religion at the University of Florida. He is the author of many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Islam in South Asia, Sufi thought and practice, Hadith studies, Islamic philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.