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Is Sufism Islamic?

2018
Amin explores the development of Sufism in this chapter. He ties it to popular religious practices and the traces of ancient pagan religions in various geographical locations of the Muslim Empire. He explores how theologians and jurists reacted to the development of Sufi concepts and rituals.
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Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt

1996
Abstract One of the most important sects in the Islamic world, Sufism has had a long and active history. Yet it has been no stranger to controversy. This has been particularly pronounced in modern times, as radical Islamic groups and modernist reformers have sought to identify Sufism as a source of either unwelcome innovation or ...
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Modernity from Within: Islamic Fundamentalism and Sufism

open access: yesIslam - Zeitschrift Fur Geschichte Und Kultur Des Islamischen Orients, 2011
Islamic fundamentalism is a product of modernity. Its constitution as the hegemonic discourse of modern Islam was accomplished in the course of the twentieth century over against two Others: the external Other of the West and the internal Other of ...
Itzchak Weismann
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Hidden or Forbidden, Elected or Rejected: Sufism as ‘Islamic Esotericism’?

open access: yesIslam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 2018
The article analyses the background of a popular conception of Sufism as equivalent to ‘Islamic esotericism’ by tracing two different but sometimes confluent currents: reifications of Sufism within Western romanticist and modern environments, and the ...
Simon Sorgenfrei
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Islam and Sufism in South Asia

ISLAMIC STUDIES, 2022
In his Lovers of God: Sufism and the Politics of Islam in Medieval India, Raziuddin Aquil studied the role of Sufis in preaching Islam in medieval South Asia. He saw the preaching of Islam in South Asia as a gradual process. Many Sufi orders preached Islam in South Asia from medieval times.
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PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC SUFISM

Full Text Book of Rimar Congress12
The history of the Islamic spiritual life at its beginning by the ascetics, worshippers and early hermits was noticeable by fear and intimidation. The asceticism accompanied by fear, sadness and crying on one hand and intimidation and threats (warning) on the other hand, all of these are the way for man to curb the reins of the soul until it becomes ...
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Sufism and Islam

2015
The Sufi experience is the encounter with absolute truth. This truth cannot be converted into a stronghold nor into a monopoly by and for anyone, and neither is it limited to a concrete culture, race or belief. According to the Sufi doctrine, man voluntarily offers himself in body and soul to God. Some ascetic and mystic sufis do so individually, while
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Sufism in Europe

Sufism, the spiritual, mystical, and esoteric dimension of Islam, is experiencing a renewal in the 21st century. Charismatic Sufi masters have been able to revitalize their language, attracting new disciples and going beyond their cultural-geographic framework.
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