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Australia on Trial
"A robust, not to say muscular, defence of Australia against the fashionable claims that it's a racist country established on stolen land, with a chronic cultural cringe. Anyone who loves Australia will appreciate Sufi's rebuttal of such bunk." Niall Ferguson "For a long time, the debate about Australia's past has been torn between a Left that says it was all too shameful and a Right that sometimes struggles to acknowledge that which was shameful. In this book, Dr Sherry Sufi has struck the balance just right. He argues that Australia is not a racist country built on stolen land and it certainly has a way of life worth defending. I agree with these conclusions. This book should be prescribed...
Australia on Trial
Many on the left reckon Australia is a racist country built on stolen land that doesn't even have a culture or way of life. Many on the right reckon we have plenty to celebrate, the left has lost the plot and wishes to guilt trip us all for perceived and actual wrongdoings of the past, for which the current generation can't be held responsible. This book hopes to take you beyond the usual left-right argybargy in plain lingo. It brings you a balanced point of view that makes a modest attempt at bridging the gap between competing interpretations. This isn't a history book. It's a book aimed at regular folks to help us think through present-day challenges we face together as a nation due to stuff that happened in the past and continues to impact our lives. Sherry Sufi is a Western Australian Author, Columnist and Political Commentator. He has been a Contributor for Sky News Australia. His articles have been published in The Australian, The West Australian, SkyNews.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Fairfax Media, The Epoch Times, PerthNow, Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post.
FROM CAVEMEN TO COUNTRYMEN
What does language have to do with nationalism? Why do some countries succeed in uniting their citizens under a common identity while others struggle? This book, based on an award-winning PhD thesis, makes a modest attempt at answering these questions. Its central argument is that the rise of modern nationalism has created a political landscape that necessitates the mobilisation of the masses into a common cultural form (nation), in order to integrate them into a common political form (state). Through a series of comparative case-studies, Sherry Sufi concludes that to achieve this, the most accessible formula for nationalists remains the combination of shared history and language, as opposed to the alternative route of exclusive appeals to ethnicity, religion, sect or ideology.
Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry
Following World War II and the exposure of the concentration camps, psychiatry turned its attention to a vast range of cultural concerns with results that seemed to indicate a decline of stigma over time. However, it is now clear that whatever drives prejudices, especially in the case of anti-Semitism, was just dormant and perhaps not fully understood. Hate crimes and anti-Semitism broad recently re-emerged in Europe, and the United States followed shortly thereafter. The US Federal Bureau of investigation reports that New York City, which is still considered the most Jewish-friendly region in the US, experienced a 22% spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2018 alone, with more extremes in ot...
Sufi Civilities
Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of a widely practiced variant of Islam: Sufism. Contemporary analysts suggest that Sufism is on the decline due to war and the ideological hardening that results from societies in conflict. However, in Sufi Civilities, Annika Schmeding argues that this is far from a truthful depiction. Members of Sufi communities have worked as resistance fighters, aid workers, business people, actors, professors, and daily workers in creative and ingenious ways...
Sufism East and West
In Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interchange and fluidity in the resonance spaces of “East” and “West.” The volume challenges the enduring Orientalist binary coding of East-versus-West and argues instead for a more mutual process of cultural plaiting and shared tradition. By highlighting amendments, adaptations and expansions of Sufi semantics during the last centuries, it also questions the persistent perception of Sufism in its post-classical epoch as a corrupt imitation of the legacy of the great Sufis of the past.
Re-centering the Sufi Shrine
Recentering the Sufi Shrine is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition of Ṭariqa-i Muhammadiyya’s millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shah’s (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics of presence in understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other.
Sufism in Western Contexts
Sufism in Western Contexts explores both historical trajectories and multiple contemporary manifestations of Islamic mystical movements, ideas, and practices in diverse European, North and South American countries, as well as in Australia – all traditionally non-Muslim regions of the “global West”. From early French and British colonial administrators who admired Persian poetry to nineteenth-century American transcendentalists, followed by South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant Sufi guides and their movements, expansive and many-faceted expressions of Sufism such as its role in Western esotericism, female whirling dervishes and Rumi cafes, and new articulations in cyberspace, are traced and analyzed by international experts in the field.
Civil Democratic Islam
In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.
Menzies
Previously unpublished speeches of R G Menzies.
