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Sufi currents in Fars before the appearance of Ibn Khafif
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Fatemeh Toobaie    1, Mohammad yufof Nayyeri2 |
1- shiraz university , toobaieshima@yahoo.com
2- shiraz university |
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Abstract: (1323 Views) |
Searching about the beginning of Sufism in different regions of Iran is an important issue that has received less attention. Due to the division of Sufism into two currents of Iraqi mysticism and Khorasan mysticism and paying attention to the Sufis of these two regions, Other Sufi attitudes were neglected in the rest of the regions. Fars and Shiraz was one of the areas that was neglected. It seems that the presence of more than eighty sheikhs of Sufism in Fars and Shiraz before the appearance of Ibn Khafif and the remarkable growth of Sufism in this region, shows the necessity of investigating about the beginning and development of Sufism in this region. In this research, the names of forty-three Sheikhs of Shiraz who lived before Ibn Khafif or are his contemporaries were extracted and their mystical worldview was analyzed as much as possible based on the little remaining information. From the analysis and explanation of the mystical attitude of these forty-three Sufis, it was found that four main Sufi currents can be seen in this period: First, the flow of asceticism and seclusion, which is the primary form of Sufism, second The flow of the Iraqi school of mysticism, third movement of the Khorasan school of mysticism, and fourth The flow of creators of the Shiraz school of mysticism.
The analysis of the numbers shows that in Fars the sheikhs of the Shiraz school predominate and other currents play a lesser role.
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| Keywords: mysticism, Fars, asceticism, Iraqi school of mysticism, Khorasan school of mysticism, creators of the Shiraz school of mysticism. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
ادبیات عرفانی
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