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Arguably Bashir’s most theoretically ambitious work, Sufi Bodies breaks new ground by applying the concept of “embodiment” to medieval Sufi literature. Rather than focusing on doctrines or institutions, Bashir asks: How did Sufis experience, describe, and discipline the human body?

Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam shahzad bashir books

As an editor, Bashir compiled a volume of primary sources documenting the interaction between the "Islamic World" and "the West" from the medieval period to modernity. Arguably Bashir’s most theoretically ambitious work