Description: This book explores how 'Sufism' - as an established non-Western philosophy with a remarkable temporal-spatial spread across the globe - facilitates a creative intervention in the theoretical-practical understanding of Global IR.
Brief description: Deepshikha Shahi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India. She conducted her Post-doctoral study at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Käte Hamburger-Kolleg), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She has recently published two books: - Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory (2018) London and New York: Routledge (https: //www.routledge.com/Advaita-as-a-Global-International-Relations-Theory/Shahi/p/book/9781138497740) - Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory (2018) Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (https: //www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030017279) She has also recently published an article in the European Journal of International Relations (2018) - Introducing Sufism to International Relations Theory: A preliminary inquiry into epistemological, ontological, and methodological pathways (https: //journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354066117751592)
Review Quotes:
"Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations is a valuable and timely contribution to the increasing interest in non-Western traditions of thought. It will be of interest to IR theorists as well as scholars in other disciplines who are interested in non-Western traditions of thought and is sure to motivate further research in IR that is inspired by Sufism." --Insight Turkey
"A theoretically ambitious and often captivating opening shot exploring Islamic mysticism and politics in the international realm, featuring a wide variety of academic scholars, spatial settings, disciplinary approaches and topical interpretations." --Matthijs van den Bos, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London