Acknowledgements
The editors of this handbook would like to express their appreciation to the series editor, Alexander Knysh, Brill’s editing staff in Leiden, especially Nienke Brienen-Moolenaar, Nicolette van der Hoek, Abdurraouf Oueslati, Jet Vellinga, and Vincent Sterel, as well as to Muhammad Ridwaan, who helped prepare the manuscript. Additional appreciation is of course due to all contributors to the volume, for shedding light on different facets of Sufism in Western contexts.
Transliteration of Arabic and other words from languages using non-Latin scripts follows the EIM system. However, in the case of certain personal names and other terms that are familiarly used in English with a “standard” spelling (such as Inayat Khan), the EIM system has not been utilized.