RELIGION / Islam / Sufi

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran is a concise, highlyerudite, study that focuses on how the Islamic Republic of Iran andthe confessional communities within its society grapple with transformationsin religious identity, beliefs, practices, and social and politicalimplications of change within the setting of a Ithnā-‘Asharī or TwelverShi‘ite theocratic state. Through fifty-seven pages of facts and evalu…

Reference · Wikidata

non-fiction work by Shahzad Bashir

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Sufism or Sufi Islam is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam that is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism.

Book · DOAB

Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa. Known as the Kunta scholars, Mukhtār al-Kuntī and Muḥammad al-Kuntī were influential teachers who dev…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

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