Louise Gallorini, The Functions of Angels in Sufi Literature

The Brill series Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, one of the longest-running scholarly series devoted to Islamic studies, “emphasizes rigorous philology and engagement with primary sources.” Louise Gallorini’s The Functions of Angels in Sufi Literature fits the brief: a meticulous, sources-based literary study of angelic roles in Sufi texts (7th-12th century CE).Solidly grounding her “Introduction” in a broad comparative literature on angels across religious traditions, G...