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Sufism, Sufi thought, philosophy, influences, Islam, India, Pakistan, Afgahnistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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"1000
SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Pages from the history of the
Indian sub-continent: Islamic Religion and Culture, Sufism
Sufi Currents and Civilization
in the Islamic Courts
No serious examination of the civilizations
that flourished in the courts of the Islamic rulers is possible without an
understanding of Sufi currents that played a vital - even decisive role in
shaping the cultural output of the great Islamic empires. As any student
of world history may note, civilization typically comes to a grinding halt
wherever the writ of a revealed religion runs supreme. For any civilization
to blossom, there has to be a certain intellectual and cultural space that
is relatively free from dogma and hidebound traditions. In the earliest examples
of the Islamic courts, particularly during the reign of the Abbasids in Baghdad,
there was an informal separation of church and state and Arab civilization
was able to make important gains , drawing inputs from a variety of eclectic
sources - both indigenous and external (such as Indian and Mediterranean).
But once the paramountcy of the Quran
and the Shariat laws began to be more strictly enforced - the
Islamic courts needed some alternate current to prevent the newly established
Islamic societies from slipping into the dark ages as had occurred in the
Christian kingdoms of early medieval Europe. Sufism thus emerged as
a protestant and liberalizing current, that eventually became the primary
vehicle for intellectual advance and the dissemination of culture
in societies governed by Islamic sovereigns.
Sufi currents were essential in
easing the transition from the earlier Hindu, Buddhist, Judaic, Christian,
Manichean, and Zoroastrian societies that had existed prior to the victory
of the Islamic conquerors. Sufism provided a way to reconcile some of the
religious doctrines of these earlier cultural and/or"
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