Just published by Milad Milani, "Sufism in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) in *Sufism in Western Contexts* (ed.) Marcia K. Hermansen & Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh* (Brill: Leiden, 2023): 389-90.

 

Just published by Milad Milani, "Sufism in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) in *Sufism in Western Contexts* (ed.) Marcia K. Hermansen & Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh* (Brill: Leiden, 2023): 389-90.

 

The only issue I dispute is the usage of the moniker "New Age" which is uncritical and as a term is even disputed by most scholars because "New Age" in almost any contemporary sociological application would apply to a group whose locus and doctrine emerges out of a post-Theosophical Western subtext. We are decidedly not that since 1) our primary doctrine is the Bayan and 2) the Illuminationism of Suhrawardi whose locus is Iranian and Islamaic and not Western and post-Theosophical. "New Age" would more accurately apply to Nurbakhsh's branch of the Ni'matullahi Order who has formally rejected Islam without any nuance whereas we have not since the Bayan very much sees itself as Islam's evolution and augmentation, not its outright rejection.