Difference between revisions of "On Sufism"
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* Cairo stories | * Cairo stories | ||
* Parable of the elephant | * Parable of the elephant | ||
| + | * Alastu | ||
* Ineffability of mystical experience and knowledge | * Ineffability of mystical experience and knowledge | ||
| − | * Sufism | + | * Sufism as a return to origins |
| + | * Sufism as the mystical dimension of Islam (Annemarie Schimmel) | ||
| + | ** Qur'an | ||
| + | ** Hadith | ||
| + | ** Non-sectarian | ||
| + | * Sufism as devotion to saints, intermediaries | ||
| + | * Sufism as turuq, social orders | ||
| + | = What is Sufism? = | ||
* What is Sufism? Doctrinal, social, ritual, discursive aspects | * What is Sufism? Doctrinal, social, ritual, discursive aspects | ||
| − | ** Islamic core | + | * A critical view: Sufism as created, foreign... |
| − | + | ** Sufism, Sufi, tasawwuf | |
| − | + | ** Fundamentalism, Salafism | |
| − | + | ** Orientalism | |
| − | + | ** New Age popularity (e.g. Rumi) | |
| + | * Sufism of... | ||
| + | ** Asceticism | ||
| + | ** Adab (ethics, humility) | ||
| + | ** Devotion & Remembrance | ||
| + | ** Love as Submission | ||
| + | ** Ecstasy | ||
| + | ** Knowledge of Unity (wahdat al-wujud) | ||
| + | ** Self-perfection (al-insan al-kamil) | ||
| + | * Islamic core | ||
| + | ** Mystical practices, visions and journeys of the Prophet (Hira, Mi`raj) | ||
| + | ** The Awliya or saints: holy men and women of Islam | ||
| + | ** Non-sectarian nature: supererogatory practices | ||
| + | * Neoplatonic elements | ||
** Christian ascetic elements (monk Buhayra) | ** Christian ascetic elements (monk Buhayra) | ||
** Ancient Middle Eastern religion (Egyptian, Persian...) | ** Ancient Middle Eastern religion (Egyptian, Persian...) | ||
Revision as of 09:51, 31 January 2011
Contents
Sufism - general
- Cairo stories
- Parable of the elephant
- Alastu
- Ineffability of mystical experience and knowledge
- Sufism as a return to origins
- Sufism as the mystical dimension of Islam (Annemarie Schimmel)
- Qur'an
- Hadith
- Non-sectarian
- Sufism as devotion to saints, intermediaries
- Sufism as turuq, social orders
What is Sufism?
- What is Sufism? Doctrinal, social, ritual, discursive aspects
- A critical view: Sufism as created, foreign...
- Sufism, Sufi, tasawwuf
- Fundamentalism, Salafism
- Orientalism
- New Age popularity (e.g. Rumi)
- Sufism of...
- Asceticism
- Adab (ethics, humility)
- Devotion & Remembrance
- Love as Submission
- Ecstasy
- Knowledge of Unity (wahdat al-wujud)
- Self-perfection (al-insan al-kamil)
- Islamic core
- Mystical practices, visions and journeys of the Prophet (Hira, Mi`raj)
- The Awliya or saints: holy men and women of Islam
- Non-sectarian nature: supererogatory practices
- Neoplatonic elements
- Christian ascetic elements (monk Buhayra)
- Ancient Middle Eastern religion (Egyptian, Persian...)
- Unity (tawhid)
- Inner unity (reality)
- Outer multiplicity (illusion)
- Division
- Islam - Iman - Ihsan: outer to inner
- Zahir - Batin: symbolism (signifer to signified)
- Sharia - Tariqa - Haqiqa
- The maqamat, as a series of parallel oppositions (fear/hope, contraction/expansion, baqaa/fanaa)
- Order and disorder
- Social: turuq vs. darwish
- Emotional: closeness vs. ecstasy (hal, jadhb, shath)
- Ritual: hadra vs. hal
- Manifestations of the Sacred
- Nature
- Traditional arts
Sufism and the person
- al-`Alam al-Azali and "Alastu"
- Individual experiential understanding, independence
- Social group, tariqa, shaykh, submission to
- Psychology: ruh and nafs
Sufism and Qur'an and Sunna
- Qur'an: God is closer than your jugular vein
- Hadith Qudsi:
Literary expressions of Sufism
- Sacred interpretation of conventional themes:
- praise
- love
- intoxication
Classical Arabic poetry - the ambiguity of spiritual love
Performative expressions of Sufism
- Remembrance (dhikr)
