What’s in a Name? The Challenges of Defining Sufism

By M. Shobhana Xavier Since my arrival at CAS-E, I’ve been provoked by the question of what is (western) esotericism. It’s been only three weeks for me here at the centre, but my colleagues are thinking about how to frame, deconstruct, problematize, and perhaps reconstruct this label that means many things for the fellows from […]