Open seal by Anna Platsch

When Anna Platsch meets her first (Egyptian) Sufi teacher, she immerses herself in a world that fulfills her spiritual longings. At the same time, this Muslim world with its rigid rules seems strange to her.

Anna Platsch describes her experiences between ritual prayers in Berlin shared apartments and trips to the Muslim world, describes her search for traces of the feminine in the history and present of Islam and portrays some great women of Sufism. She paints a picture of a spiritual culture that we encounter today primarily in its dark side, but knowing its complexity is of great importance for our ability to engage in dialogue.

Her own spiritual path eventually led her to Irina Tweedie, who teaches a Sufism beyond Islam, and to Annette Kaiser, who continues to transform this tradition into the present day.

260 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.