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Sufism

Sufism. By: Ian Worthington. Basic Tenants. The Spiritual Journey to God: Less of a doctrine then a way of life Way of life that a deeper identity is discovered and lived Harmony with all that exists Seeks a way out of the path of “worldliness” Developed out of Islam.

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Sufism

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  1. Sufism By: Ian Worthington

  2. Basic Tenants • The Spiritual Journey to God: • Less of a doctrine then a way of life • Way of life that a deeper identity is discovered and lived • Harmony with all that exists • Seeks a way out of the path of “worldliness” • Developed out of Islam A Gathering of Sufis, Persian 19th century miniature A Gathering of Dervishes - India, 17th century Ibn Khaldun, the 14th century Arab historian, described Sufism as: ... dedication to worship, total dedication to Allah most High, …. (Ibn Khaldun, quoted in Keller, Nuh Ha Mim, The Place of Tasawwuf in Traditional Islam)

  3. Span of Influence Sufism expanded vastly throughout the Islamic Empire and beyond to many places not under Muslim control Sudanese Sufi ceremony A Qadiri Sufi village in Dongxiang county, Linxia prefecture, Gansu province. The tower is a Sufi tomb The tomb of Khoja Afāq, near Kashgar, China

  4. Dervishes Dervishes are a very ascetic form of Sufi mystics known for their extreme poverty. A Persian dervish, Qajar era Dervishes: Mevlâna mausoleum, Konya, Turkey Dervishes in Turkey became known for the whirling dances they performed درویش Persian or Arabic for Dervish Dar is Persian means ‘door.’ A Darvesh is one who goes from door to door

  5. Sufism in Turkey and Central Asia Sufism laid the ground work for the Ottoman Empire in Turkey Muslim presence in Iran and Afganistan Sufi presence in Transoxania and Khorasan since its conception A Sufi dervish, they spread Islam throughout Anatolia

  6. Sufism in South and Southeast Asia Chisti Sufis and Seljuk invasions helped the spread of sufism into India Tomb of Shaikh Salim Chisti, Uttar Pradesh, India Sufi singers in Indonesia 18th Century Dutch map of Java, prominent religious groups included Sufi mystics

  7. Spread of Sufism 3 1 4 2 5 1.Sufism spreads from Arabian heartlands and moves into Anatolia • 2. Sufism spreads into Africa and establishes a community in the larger already present Islamic community • 3. Sufism moves with the expansion of seljuks into India • 4. Sufi mystics move along trade routes into China and SouthEast Asia • 5. Sufism spreads into Indonesia

  8. Literature "The Concourse of the Birds" painted by Habib Allah In order to guide spiritual travelers and to express the states of consciousness experienced on this journey, Sufis produced an enormously rich body of literature, often using a specialized technical vocabulary The Mathnawī of Rūmī Comprising six books of poems that amount to more than 50,000 lines, it pursues its way through 424 stories that illustrate man's predicament in his search for God.

  9. Bibliography • Nasr, Syed Hossein. (1991). Islamic Spirituality II: Manifestations. New York: Crossroad. • Dr. Alan Godlas, University of Georgia, Sufism's Many Paths, 2000, University of Georgia: http://www.uga.edu/islam/Sufism.html • Dr. Zubair Fattani, "The meaning of Tasawwuf", Islamic Academy. See: http://www.islamicacademy.org/html/Articles/English/Tasawwuf.htm • Haddad, Gibril Fouad: Sufism in Islam LivingIslam.org: http://www.livingislam.org/k/si_e.html • Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, Yvonne Haddad, Jane Idleman Smith: Islam and the West Post 9/11, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., p. 67 • Muhammad Emin Er, Laws of the Heart: A Practical Introduction to the Sufi Path, Shifâ Publishers, 2008 • "Ṣūfi literature." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 07 Oct. 2008 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/719922/Sufi-literature

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