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12 wrz 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
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Rituals: The mystics drew their...
- History
Sufism - Mysticism, Islamic Traditions, Sufi Orders: Islamic...
- Theosophical Sufism
Sufism - Mysticism, Love, Unity: Sufism, in its beginnings a...
- The Path
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Devotion: The path (ṭarīqah)...
- Symbolism in Sufism
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Rituals: The divine truth was at...
- Sufi Literature
Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Sufi Orders: Though a Hadith (a...
- Sufi Orders
Sufism - Mysticism, Orders, Practices: Mystical life was...
- Significance
The missionary activities of the Sufis have enlarged the...
- 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. [1][2][3][4][5] Six Sufi masters, c. 1760.
This mystic tradition within Islam developed in several stages of growth, emerging first in the form of early asceticism, based on the teachings of Hasan al-Basri, before entering the second stage of more classical mysticism of divine love, as promoted by al-Ghazali and Attar of Nishapur, and finally emerging in the institutionalized form of ...
12 wrz 2024 · The missionary activities of the Sufis have enlarged the fold of the faithful. The importance of Sufism for spiritual education, and inculcation in the faithful of the virtues of trust in God, piety, faith in God’s love, and veneration of the Prophet, cannot be overrated.
As situated within the purview of world philosophies, Sufism refers to the Islamic mystical tradition as a whole: a historical phenomenon composed of a diverse complex of attitudes, ideas, doctrines, practices, texts, and institutions that share certain features with the mystical traditions of Islam's cousin faiths, Judaism and Christianity.
12 wrz 2024 · Sufism - Mysticism, Orders, Practices: Mystical life was first restricted to the relation between a master and a few disciples; the foundations of a monastic system were laid by the Persian Abū Saʿīd ebn Abī ol-Kheyr (died 1049), but real orders or fraternities came into existence only from the 12th century onward: ʿAbd al-Qādir al ...
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...
