Download or read book Beyond Dogma written by Jawid Mojaddedi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Dogma examines Rumi's central teaching about friendship with God (walaya) in light of earlier Sufi discourse on this topic and its reception by Muslim theologians and jurists. It provides a nuanced and historically contextualized appreciation of Rumi's place in Islam.