http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#sufism And science in Islam. And non-Islamic religions. And the troubadors. And pluralism, democracy, feminism. And love-poetry. <ul>See: <li>A. J. Arberry, <cite>Sufism, an Account of the Mystics of Islam</cite> <li><a href="mernissi.html">Fatima Mernissi,</a> <cite>Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Simon Digby, <cite>Sufis and Soldiers in Awrangzeb's Deccan</cite> <li>Sachiko Murata, <cite>Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-Yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm</cite> </ul>