“That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him”: Islam in/and the Study of “Western Esotericism”
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism December 3, 2020 L. Saif
In recent years, the field of “Western esotericism” has been confronted by problems related to the cultural and regional demarcations it has adopted. This field is based on a longue durée narrative that underplays non-“Western” currents, including ones which, through appropriation or reactions to them, constitutedmajor sources for it. One of themost immediate arguments against the use of the...