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Jun 20, 2024 · Sufism, mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God.
- Sufi Thought and Practice
Though early Sufism had concentrated upon the relation...
- Symbolism in Sufism
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Rituals: The divine truth was at...
- Significance
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Spirituality: Sufism has helped...
- The Path
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Devotion: The path (ṭarīqah)...
- Maqām
Maqām, (Arabic: “place of residence”), a spiritual stage...
- History
In the decades after Rābiʿah, mystical trends grew...
- Theosophical Sufism
Sufism - Mysticism, Love, Unity: Sufism, in its beginnings a...
- Sufi Orders
Sufism - Mysticism, Orders, Practices: Mystical life was...
- Sufi Thought and Practice
Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism. Six Sufi masters, c. 1760
Idries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its connections with Islam, but which both predates and goes beyond it.
The Sufis is one of the best known books on Sufism by the writer Idries Shah. First published in 1964 with an introduction by Robert Graves, it introduced Sufi ideas to the West in a format acceptable to non-specialists at a time when the study of Sufism had largely become the reserve of Orientalists.
All Sufi orders claim a direct chain of leadership to Muhammad, through Ali, with the exception of the Naqshbandis who claim a direct connection to Muhammad through Abu Bakr. In the eleventh century, Sufi orders (Tariqa) were instrumental in the institutional spread of Sufism.
Jun 20, 2024 · In the decades after Rābiʿah, mystical trends grew everywhere in the Islamic world, partly through an exchange of ideas with Christian hermits. A number of mystics in the early generations had concentrated their efforts upon tawakkul, absolute trust in God, which became a central concept of Sufism.
Jun 20, 2024 · Though early Sufism had concentrated upon the relation between God and the soul, from 900 onward a strong Muhammad-mysticism developed. In the very early years, the alleged divine address to the Prophet—“If thou hadst not been I had not created the worlds”—was common among Sufis.
