Chapter thirteen considers Traditionalism in the contemporary Islamic world. 

• Traditionalist influence in the Arab world is similar to that in the West, but in Iran and Turkey Traditionalism occupies a far more important position in public discourse than is the case elsewhere. 
• The chapter ends with a consideration of the unusual and apparently paradoxical relationship between Traditionalism and radical Islamism in the Russian Federation , completing the biography of Gaydar Jamal, begun in the previous chapter.

Further reading

• Wilfried Buchta, Who Rules Iran? The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic . Washington , DC : Washington Institute for Near East , 2000.
• Faouzi Skali, La voie soufie . Paris : Albin Michel, 1995.

Suggested websites

• Soufisme d'orient et d'occident (Skali, in French)
• Tariqa Qadiriya Boutshishiya  
• Insan yayinlari (publisher; in Turkish)
• Search the Catalog of Contemporary Traditionalism for "religious groups--Muslim" 

Other resources

• Additional notes to chapter 13
• Errata
• Addenda