We are delighted to announce the following new publication by Leiden University Press entitled ‘Sufi Non-Conformism: Antinomian Trends in the Persianate Cultural Traditions’, as part of the Iranian Studies Series.

This book deals with nonconformist aspects of Sufism, and other antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas. The chapters cover a variety of subjects, ranging from gender and the role of women in Islamic mysticism, to genuine versus  sham piety, belief versus unbelief, the notion of metempsychosis (tanāsukh) in the mystical philosophy of Shihāb al-Dīn Suhravardī, and the influential role of the Persian sage Umar Khayyām in religious discussions on piety in Persia, and his reception history in Europe.

Whores and Heavenly Beings: Women and Sufism in the Persianate World of the Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries

Lloyd Ridgeon

Jamāl al-Dīn Sāvī’s Codification of Qalandarī Rites and Rituals

Zhinia Noorian

Moderate Level-Headed Antinomianism of āfi and its Artistic Expression

Majdoddin Keyvani

Umar Khayyām’s Transgressive Ethics and their Socio-Political Implications in Contemporary Iran

A.A. Seyed-Gohrab

A Polemic on Knowledge: An Analysis of Two Persian Quatrains

Arash Ghajarjazi

Omar Khayyām in German Reformulations: Translation between Politics, Scholarship and Belief

Amir Theilhaber

The Boy Sheikh: The Trial of an Ottoman Heretic

Colin Imber

Islam’s Margins: Ahl-i Haqq, Angels and Peacocks, and the Marginal Scholars who Loved Them

Martin van Bruinessen

A Persian Essay in Defence of Suhrawardī Against the Accusation of Supporting Metempsychosis (tanāsukh)

Cornelis van Lit