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| | Sufism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Sufism (Persian: صوفیگری, Arabic: تصوف, taṣawwuf) is a mystic tradition of Islam. | | | Practitioners of Sufism, known as Sufis, engage in the pursuit of a direct perception of spiritual truth or God, through mystic practices based on divine love. | | | Although Sufism as a whole is approved in Islamic thought, there is a tendency to distinguish between different Sufi thoughts and practices in terms of their conformity with Shari'a and hence the introduction of an Islamic or authentic form of Sufism by religious authorities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism
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| | Sufism |
| | Sufism is not a religion, for it is beyond the limitations of faiths and beliefs which make the diversity of religions in the world. | | | Sufism is a religion if one wishes to learn religion from it. | | | Sufism is not a new religion or community; it does not want to add a community to the world. |
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http://www.sufiorder.toronto.on.ca/sufism.htm
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| | Sufism |
| | Sufism was early criticized by those who feared that the Sufis' concern for personal experiential knowledge of God could lead to neglect of established religious observances and that the Sufis' ideal of unity with God was a denial of the Islamic principle of the "otherness" of God. | | | The word Sufism, which is probably derived from the Arabic suf ("wool"; hence sufi, "a person wearing an ascetic's woolen garment"), denotes Islamic mysticism. | | | Sufism: the Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/sufism.htm
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| | Sufism and Islam |
| | Sufism is a very special kind of mysticism, which does not address itself to he who lives outside the world, but, on the contrary, to he who lives in the world and is continuously engaged in daily life matters. | | | Sufism, a relevant stream of Islamic mysticism, aims at recovering the original spirit of Muhammad's teaching, blaming externals and a mere homage to religious dogmas in order to attain another dimension, which is specifically inner. | | | According to the author's opinion, Sufism does not turn out to be a philosophy, a religion or a cult. |
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http://leonardoarena.tripod.com/SufismIslam.html
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| | Sufism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sufism |
| | Sufism was originally influenced by the ascetics of the early Christian church, but later developed within the structure of orthodox Islam. | | | There are a number of groups or brotherhoods within Sufism, each with its own method of meditative practice, one of which is the whirling dance of the dervishes. | | | The name derives from Arabic suf, a rough woollen robe worn as an indication of disregard for material things. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Sufism
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| | What is Sufism? |
| | Sufism has come to mean a wide range of beliefs that center on the quest for personal enlightenment in the union with God. | | | Technically Sufism is a denomination of Islam, however there are many Sufis that are not Muslims and there are many Muslims that are reluctant to consider Sufism part of Islam. | | | Sufis are sometimes described as the mystics of Islam, but Sufism fits awkwardly in the categories of religions. |
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http://www.davidberryart.com/articles/sufism.html
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| | Women and Sufism, by Camille Adams Helminski |
| | Sufism recognizes that committed relationship and family are not contrary to the flowering of spirituality, but rather are wonderful vessels for spiritual ripening. | | | Mary, the mother of Jesus, is very much revered in Sufism and Islam as an example of one who continually took refuge with the divine and opened to receive divine inspiration within the womb of her being. | | | As the mystical side of Islam developed, it was a woman, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya (717-801 A.D.), who first expressed the relationship with the divine in a language we have come to recognize as specifically Sufic by referring to God as the Beloved. |
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http://www.sufism.org/society/articles/women.html
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| | Sufism |
| | Sufism does contribute a lacking spirituality to the religion of Islam. | | | Sufism has influenced many Muslims, and is, especially in the West, portrayed and regarded as a valuable and legitimate part of the Islamic faith. | | | Sufism gives special attention for the spiritual issues, because they believe that when a Muslim has good faith and good spiritual life then he will be a good Muslim. |
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http://www.rim.org/muslim/sufism.htm
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| | Sufism |
| | Sufism evolved as a repudiation of the rising dogma and creeping materialism in the early period of Islam which followed the golden age of the Prophet (pbuh) and the first four Caliphs. | | | Sufism is increasingly acknowledged as a spiritual answer to modern materialism. | | | This book can prove to be a feast for the trusting reader who is not blocked by cynicism in his quest for spirituality. |
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http://www.nuradeen.com/Zahra/Sufism.htm
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| | What is Sufism? : Early Definitions of Sufism |
| | When asked about Sufism, Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Qassab--the master of Junayd--said, "Sufism consists of noble behavior (akhlaq karima) that is made manifest at a noble time on the part of a noble person in the presence of a noble people." | | | All of these definitions of Sufism given by Sufis who lived in the 9th and 10th centuries (CE) are provided by al-Sarraj (d. | | | Regarding Sufism, 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Rahim al-Qannad said, "Sufism consists of extending a 'spiritual station' (nashr maqam) and being in constant union (ittisal bi-dawam)." |
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http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/sufism/sufismlumdef.html
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| | SUFISM vs. "SUFI-CLAIMERS" - Page 1 of 3 |
| | Sufism is very much a part of the Religion of Islam. | | | Indeed, the leader of all the Sufis was Prophet Muhammad, who was sent by Allah to teach the people the matters which, if performed and practiced in the proper way, would lead to their success in this life and in the Hereafter. | | | On the other hand, there are groups, like the Wahhabis and those who follow them, who categorically deny Sufism and claim it is not even a part of the Religion. |
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http://www.aicp.org/IslamicInformation/English/SUFISMvsSUFICLAIMERS.htm
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| | Sufism is universal in its teachings, though it was traditionally an esoteric branch of Islam. | | | Sufism integrates all religions by embracing the core of all faiths: love. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/sufism
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| | Sufism |
| | The Persian Sufism by Cyprian Rice, O.P. Ibn Arabi |
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http://www.khamush.com/sufism
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| | Sufi Islam |
| | Sufism is a movement of organized brotherhoods, who are grouped around a spiritual leader or sheik. | | | Sufism follows the basic tenets of Islam but does not follow all of the orthodox practices of Sunni or Shi'ah Islam. | | | Sufism seeks for its adherents a closer personal relationship with God through special spiritual disciplines. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-sufi.htm
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| | Sufism: The Reluctant Messenger - Rumi Sufi Sufis Sufies |
| | The religion most similiar to Sufism would be Sikhism. | | | The history of Sufism records that during the lifetime of the Prophet Mohammed, fifteen centuries ago, there was a group of pious individuals from different arabic nations who were guided by this ancient understanding. | | | These individuals brought to Islam the spiritual practice based on knowledge of the self, and thus free of the trappings of tradition and superstition, a knowledge of the inner heart apart from the customary beliefs of their contemporary society as well as those of future civilizations. |
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http://reluctant-messenger.com/sufi.htm
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| | Introduction |
| | The rise of Sufism began after the first century of Islam as a struggle against the increasing distortions and misrepresentations of its teachings, especially as perpetrated by the leadership of the day. | | | Sufism bore similarities to ascetic mysticism, yet it also allowed for spiritual militancy in many instances. | | | Rulers or kings could often be seen to be using the name of Islam to justify their own ends, or to be discarding those aspects of its teachings which did not suit their purposes or extravagant lifestyle. |
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http://www.nuradeen.com/Reflections/ElementsOfSufismIntro.htm
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| | Sufism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | SUFISM [Sufism], an umbrella term for the ascetic and mystical movements within Islam. | | | Although Sufism has made significant contributions to the spread of Islam and the development of various aspects of Islamic civilization (e.g., literature and calligraphy), many conservative Muslims disagree with many popular Sufi practices, particularly saint worship, the visiting of tombs, and the incorporation of non-Islamic customs. | | | The dervishes are adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/Sufism.asp
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| | Sufism; Basics of ~, Sedgwick |
| | For Sufis, the eclipse of Sufism is synonymous with the eclipse of true religion, and once true religion has almost vanished from the world, the Final Day will come, as countless hadith predict and explain. | | | Sufism, real Sufism, this book explains, is deeply rooted in Islam. | | | Thus the writings of Idries Shah on Sufism are widely read in the West, though the way in which he presents such teachings would not be endorsed by most Sufis in the Islamic world. |
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http://mac.abc.se/home/onesr/ez/isl/Sufism.Basics.of.html
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| | Western Sufism and Traditionalism |
| | Sufism in the Islamic world today struggles to survive in a hostile climate, but continues to provide all these varieties of spiritual experience, though to an ever smaller number of people. | | | For the Islamic reformers of the nineteenth century and for their successors today, Sufism was and is an illegitimate addition to Islam. | | | Similarly, the barely Islamic versions of Sufism as a "pure essence" that had been propagated by Inayat Khan and Idries Shah also began to appear in the Islamic world towards the end of the twentieth century, though this version was never as widespread or influential as Nasr's Traditionalism. |
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http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/sedgwick/trad/write/WSuf.html
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| | REL 165 - SUFISM |
| | In addition to the history of Sufism, we will analyze the basic doctrines of Sufism on God, the universe, man and woman, natural environment, ethics, psychology, spiritual states, meditation and invocation, spiritual chivalry, and master-disciple relationship. | | | Sufism and Islamic society: Sufis as Social Functionaries and the Concept of Spiritual Chivalry (futuwwah) | | | We will discuss the history of Sufism from its inception in the first Islamic community in Mecca and Madina up to the present times and analyze how Sufism became the most enduring and widespread movement in Islamic history. |
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http://www.holycross.edu/departments/religiousstudies/ikalin/Syllabi/Sufism.htm
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| | The Persian Sufism |
| | There is a Sufi way, a Sufi doctrine, a form of spiritual knowledge known as 'irfan or ma'rifat, Arabic words which correspond to the Greek gnosis. | | | But what we now know as Sufism dawned unheralded, mysteriously, in the ninth century of our ear and already in the tenth and eleventh had reached maturity. | | | Evagrius Ponticus himslef, a pupil of origen, Basil and Gregory, became a monk in the Scete Desert of Egypt and there composed in lapidary form his manual and the authoritiaatve exposition of the ascetico-mystical life for Persian monachism. |
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http://www.rumi.org.uk/sufism/persian_sufism.htm
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| | Sufism - A brief Introduction |
| | Sufism is, in fact, the purification of our nafs, heart and soul as prescribed in the holy Qur'an by Allah. | | | Sufism is the purification of our nafs, heart and soul of all those things that are not liked by Allah. | | | Sufism is the way, which teaches us to think of Allah, so much that we should forget ourselves. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5352/intro.htm
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| | Sufism |
| | Some hold that Sufism is related to Islamic prescriptions; others hold that it is prior to Muhammad's teaching and historical life. | | | In fact, Sufism is not a philosophy, nor a religion, nor a system of thought. | | | It can be said that Islam, by means of Sufism, manifests itself as a system of universal values and representations. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4731/Sufism.html
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| | Sufism |
| | Indian Sufism is a blend of Persian Sufism and Hindu mysticism. | | | Sufism is not considered as an integral part of orthodox Islam. | | | Unity of God, brotherhood of man and self-surrender to the Lord are the most vital doctrines of Sufism. |
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http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/religions/sufism.htm
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| | Sufism, Sufi thought, philosophy, influences, Islam, India, Pakistan, Afgahnistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey |
| | Sufism provided a way to reconcile some of the religious doctrines of these earlier cultural and/or religious systems. | | | Sikhism emerged as one of the most powerful of the subaltern movements that owed part of it's original inspiration to Sufi mysticism, and the influence of Sufi thought on the Sikh Gurus continues to be acknowledged with a measure of respect and reverence. | | | Sufi currents were essential in easing the transition from the earlier Hindu, Buddhist, Judaic, Christian, Manichean, and Zoroastrian societies that had existed prior to the victory of the Islamic conquerors. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/sufi.html
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| | Will Sufism be the new it religion? By Lee Smith |
| | Hence, many of the early Sufis believed that all faiths were equal, and that to privilege one religion was to deny the existence of the divine elsewhere. | | | Unfortunately, in the contemporary Islamic world Sufism is seldom as philosophically generous as the major figures in its past—or even as the spiritually restless Americans whose Sufism is an avenue into another culture. | | | As the early Muslim conquerors took their faith to different lands, Sufism began to borrow from different traditions, including Greek and Hindu philosophy and Christian theology. |
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http://www.slate.com/?id=2077467
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| | Sufism |
| | If Sufism recognizes one central truth, it is the unity of being, that we are not separate from the Divine. | | | If there is a single truth, worthy of the name, it is that we are all integral to the Truth, not separate.The realization of this truth has its effects on our sense of who we are, on our relationships to others and to all aspects of life. | | | This deeper identity, or essential Self, is beyond the already known personality and is in harmony with everything that exists. |
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http://www.guidetoturkey.com/aboutturkey/info_tips/sufism.asp
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| | Sufism has also had problems with surviving during modernization processes that have taken place in most of the Muslim world. | | | Sufism got its content and its rituals inside Islam, but it also picked up elements from older religious practices. | | | Sufism's aim is to gain a closer connection to God and higher knowledge. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/sufism.htm
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| | Traditionalist Sufism |
| | This view is itself also far from traditional: it is characteristic of the Salafi reformers and their descendants, and while it may now have become part of a strong current within the Islamic mainstream, rejection of Pallavicini on the grounds that he is a Sufi is inconclusive. | | | In 1937, Schuon received, in a vision, 'Six Themes of Meditation' from God; these themes were introduced into the Alawi practice of his zawiya. | | | Sections of the Muslim community in Italy, then, clearly rejected Pallavicini's Ahmadiyya as being (in our terms) other than traditional, but this rejection took place within a particular context. |
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http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/sedgwick/tradsuf.htm
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| | Sufism, Sufis, Sufi dancing |
| | Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi - School of Islamic Sufism | | | Adnan Sarhan, a Sufi Master and member of five Sufi Orders, leads participants in a wide variety of Sufi techniques including exercise, Sufi movement, drumming, Sufi dancing, meditation, chanting, and whirling. | | | Contained many quotations of islamic mystics, poets and theologians organized by questions and topics. |
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http://spiritdimension.com/sufism.htm
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| | Sufism and Sufi Orders |
| | To predict the future is not Tasawwuf either, nor is calling the aulia in absentia (with the belief that they hear such a call), nor belief that they have the power to deliver mankind from its sufferings. | | | Study of the Quran, the Hadith, and the practical life of the Holy Prophet and his faithful Companions provides unmistakable support to this reality" (An Objective Appraisal of the Sublime Sufi Path) by Shaikh Allah Yar Khan.) | | | They are known as the Friends of God, called Awliya in Sufism. |
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http://www.sufism.20m.com/sufi.htm
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| | Sufism - All Things Spiritual Directory |
| | Fons Vitae (Al-Kauthar) is devoted to making available works from the world's great spiritual traditions which could be of true use to a person of any faith seeking Wholeness or Holiness. | | | Create new discussion topics, ask questions you've always wanted answered, or provide assistance to others with your own insights. | | | - Books on Sufism, Islam, Metaphysics and traditional studies. |
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http://www.allspiritual.com/Sufism.php3
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| | Moon Over Medina - A Sufi Bookstore |
| | Written in the 11th century A.D., it clarifies very important and deep spiritual concepts, showing how Sufism was made to leave Islam and that it is not the case of 'when Sufism "entered" Islam'. | | | These books have been carefully selected to address readers interested in the science of Islamic spiritualism (Sufism). | | | The Kashful Mahjub: Unveiling the Veiled -- by Syed Ali bin Uthman al-Hujweri |
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http://www.moonovermedina.com
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