There can be few topics in the religious and intellectual history of Islam that have aroused as much controversy and misunderstanding as Sufism. This is due partly to the multiform and elusive nature of Sufism itself and partly to the profusion of fale claimants to Sufism, particularly in recent times. This lecture attempts to clarify the principal conceptual bases of Sufism and the way in which it may legitimately claim to be derived from both the Qur'an and the Sunnah; the varying levels of religious understanding and practice and of moral progress that can be deduced from those two sources of Islam; and the key practive of dhikr.
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Hamid Algar, born in England in 1940, received his formal training in Islamic studies at Cambridge University, from which is received his Ph.D. in 1965. Since 1965, he has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, a wide range of courses including tafsir, Sufism, Shi'ism, the history of Islam in Iran, Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature.
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- Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Michael Anthony Sells in Back Matter
- Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel in Back Matter
- The Doctrine of the Sufis by A. J. Arberry in Back Matter
- Islamic Mysticism by Reynold A. Nicholson in Back Matter
- Understanding the Four Madhhabs: The Facts about Ijtihad and Taqlid in Back Matter
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