Later Academics
By the end of the 20th century, the academic study of Sufism was well established in university departments of religious studies.
The perspectives of these later scholars varied. Some were purely scientific, while some followed in the line of Massignon, or (sometimes privately) in the line of Guénon and the Traditionalists, modified somewhat for an academic environment.
For a contemporary academical "state of the art" see: " Sufism in the West", bibliography pp 190–202 ( Jamal Malik and John Hinnells ed. Routledge: London and New York, 2006 )
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