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Western Esotericism and Islamic Mysticism
2022This book offers a comprehensive study of the works of the Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff, with a particular focus on Sufism and its place in his teaching. Gurdjieff remains an important figure in the history of Western esoteric thought, while also enjoying both academic interest and popularity in modern spiritual ...
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2015
Sufism is the major expression of mysticism in Islam. While Sufism developed out of the fusion of Qur’anic ascetic tendencies and the vast fund of Christian (and other) mystical sayings present throughout the classical world, by approximately the 10th century it had become a uniquely Islamic feature.
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Sufism is the major expression of mysticism in Islam. While Sufism developed out of the fusion of Qur’anic ascetic tendencies and the vast fund of Christian (and other) mystical sayings present throughout the classical world, by approximately the 10th century it had become a uniquely Islamic feature.
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Philosophy vs. Mysticism: an Islamic Controversy
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 1992Islamic philosophy makes a sharp distinction between different categories of believers. Some, and indeed most, believers follow Islam in an unquestioning and natural manner. They adhere to the legal requirements of the religion, carry out the basic rules concerning worship, pilgrimage, charity and so on, and generally behave as orthodox and devout ...
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Christian and Islamic mysticism
2022Abstract: (Neo-)Platonic philosophy and Judaic exegesis and apocalypticism paved the way for the gradual development of Christian mysticism. The existing techniques of Jewish exegesis inspired the Christian perspective of the Old Testament texts; the hidden meaning of the Song of Songs, for example, was already explored in Judaism.
Schepers, Cornelis, Holander, Eric. S
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FEMALE AND FEMININE IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM
The Muslim World, 1988La femme ideale dans l'imaginaire, le soufisme et l'histoire de l'Islam. Les mystiques musulmanes de la premiere periode se caracterisent par le celibat et un ascetisme heroique. La plus celebre est Rabi'a al-Adawiyya ( 801). Le prototype feminin est Eve, mais aussi et surtout Marie qui engendra Jesus sans l'intervention de l'homme. Ibn al-Arabi ( 1240)
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1976
Louis Brenner, Annemarie Schimmel
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Louis Brenner, Annemarie Schimmel
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