Digital Rare Book:
The Sufi Orders in Islam
By J.Spencer Trimingham
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1971

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Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism and is considered a classic work in numerous sources of Islamic studies today. Here, author J. Spencer Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam until modern times. Trimingham focuses on the practical disciplines behind the mystical aspects of Sufism which initially attracted a Western audience.

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"Allegory of Worldly and Otherworldly Drunkenness", Folio from the Divan of Hafiz
Painting by Sultan Muhammad (active first half 16th century)
Folio from an illustrated manuscript
ca. 1531–33
Iran, Tabriz

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