Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Sakandari's Taj Al-'Arus - Hardcoverby Sherman A. Jackson (Author) Few forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam's deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world. In his translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al Sakandari's Taj al 'Arus, Sherman A.