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A large number of Sufis from Central Asia settled in Hindustan from the eleventh century onwards. This process was strengthened with the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate (Chapter 3), when several major Sufi centres developed all over the subcontinent. The Chishti silsila was among the most influential orders. It had a
Bhakti-Sufi Traditions. Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts (c. eighth to eighteenth century) We saw in Chapter 4 that by the mid-first millennium CE the landscape of the subcontinent was dotted with a variety of religious structures – stupas, monasteries, temples.
The Beginnings of Sufism. The Sufis trace the origin of Sufism or tasawwuf to the Prophet of Islam. They believe that there were two dimensions to the revelations received by the Prophet: one took the form of the words of the Qu’ran, the other that of the divine inspiration within his heart.
Complex historical contextualisation of Sufism as connected to currents of mysticism from antiquity (e.g., Neoplatonic) having been most prominent. Yet no one had asked about the source of origin of Sufism, that is, the more basic ground that allows for the being of Sufi-ness within the Islamic.
The book is a masterful display of Knysh’s extensive study of Sufi history and sources. It will be of immediate use to instructors within Islamic and religious studies, as well as to specialists in need of a summary of the state of Sufi studies and its major points of contention.
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, S...
4 kwi 2017 · The classic introduction to the philosophies, practices, and history of Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco...
