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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.
Mentions by Sui authors and teachers of their predecessors reveal a genealogy of their thought and practice, but do not provide a comprehensive picture of how, when, and why Sufism had arisen and developed in time and space.
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...
But how and why did Sufism rise in this period, and what were the reasons behind its growing importance for Muslim society? By looking at the contributions of scholars in recent decades, this article will try to trace the development of Sufism from its early origins, up to its consolidation as a visible social institution during the 12th century.
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.
Sufism assembles twenty-one articles in a valuable effort to combat scholarly as sumptions of a decline in the vitality and originality of Sufism, symptomatic of a perceived general cultural decline before modernity and European intervention,
By the late mediaeval period, Sufism (sometimes defined as Islamic mysticism) was a clear presence in every Muslim town or village, and Sufis were present in many different levels of Muslim society. However, if we were to look back to the earliest.
