Tag: Sufism

Now, I beg to ask why hasn’t Sufism been so welcomed in the West when compared to Buddhism. There are a variety of reasons as to why that may be the case. But before we go there, I must say that it might be hard for you to figure out what exactly I’m trying to imply here. Am I asking why...

I’m not going to be cutting around the edges here. Buddhism is flexible and to an extent malleable. It merged and incorporated itself into both traditional Chinese Daoist and Confucianist as well as the Japanese Shinto traditions quite well. Or so I think. I am not a history person. A lot of p...

Neither does one need to look very far to find examples of established power structures that based themselves on Islamic mysticism. In the Ottoman Empire, among others, various Sufi tariqas were supported both financially and ideologically by the sultans, which, in return, assured the loyalty o...

The dominant modernist view on religion juxtaposes ‘religion’ and ‘mysticism’ as two opposing ways of dealing with spiritual realities. The former is seen as linked with dogma and moral regulations of external behavior, while the latter is seen as linked with a free and perso...

The Qur’an hasn’t changed, but that does not imply its interpretation will remain the same. Different people from various sects use the same sentence as proof of their belief while the others use it for theirs. For instance, there’s a Hadith about doing acts of worship in smaller b...