Ideas?

[cranberriesboy]

So yeah... these are my ideas for my paper in "Contemporary Islamic Theology"(tell me what you think, or which one I should go for, I will list what I have so far in order of preference):

1. Sufism and it's relation to the Orthodox (Christian) East

2. Traditional Islamic views on Sufism

3. Turkey: Islam in a Secular country

Comments

[chrysippvs]

An idea, at least one I am interested in

Once...

[publius_aelius]

...in India I asked a rather pious Muslim dowager if she knew any Sufis, and she turned her nose up and said, "We NEVER mix with those people!" I think, though, that perhaps in India the run-of-the-mill Muslims associate the Sufis with "fakirs" or with the naked sadhus, and avoid them as being slightly disreputable.

umm...

[superluke]

go with number one...

[cordilleran2]

*pokes head in*

I'd go with the first. It sounds like an interesting topic which has been little done, and would be interested in looking at myself.