List of modern Sufi scholars information

This article is a List of modern Sufi scholars. The Sufis in the list were known in the 20th century or later. They are grouped geographically. Abdallah...

Modern-era (20th to 21st century) Islamic scholars include the following, referring to religious authorities whose publications or statements are accepted...

schools of Islamic jurisprudence and theology. Although the overwhelming majority of Sufis, both pre-modern and modern, remain adherents of Sunni Islam...

In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of وحدة, waḥdah, 'unity' or توحيد, tawhid. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this...

1897 E. E. Evans-Pritchard, "The Sanusi of Cyrenaica", Oxford, 1949 M. D. Gilsenen, "Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt", Oxford, 1978 G. H. Jansen, "Militant...

Sufi saints or Wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic...

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account of various Sufi communities, practices, and doctrines. Although such scholars were intrigued by the nature of Sufi literature and many of the individual...

Hanbali school has been seen as one of the four major Sunni madhahib (schools of law), and many prominent medieval Sufis, such as Abdul Qadir Gilani, were...

most well-known qawwali singer in modern times is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Another traditional South Asian genre of Sufi music is the Kafi, which is more...

is a shrine or tomb built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi saint or dervish. Sufis often visit the shrine for ziyarat, a term...

Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders. He was born in 1077 or 1078 in the town of Na'if...

to various traditional Sufi interpretations of the Quran, the concept of sainthood is clearly described. Some modern scholars, however, assert that the...

culture mixed with Persian-Turkic traditions of the Ghaznah court accelerated Sufi intellectualism in India. Scholars, poets, and mystics from Central Asia and...

Sufi philosophy includes the schools of thought unique to Sufism, the mystical tradition within Islam, also termed as Tasawwuf or Faqr according to its...

poet and Sufi Sherefxan Bidlisi (1543–1599), historian and poet, author of Sharafnama Faqi Tayran (Feqiyê Teyran), (1590–1660), poet, author of Sheik San'an...

Ahle Sunnat established in 1925 a body of Islamic scholars and Sufis named All India Sunni Conference, in the wake of Congress led secular Indian nationalism...

(Arabic: أكبرية: Akbariyya) is a branch of Sufi metaphysics based on the teachings of Ibn Arabi, an Andalusian Sufi who was a gnostic and philosopher. The...

Spencer (1998). The Sufi Orders in Islam. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 46. Sarrano Ruano, Delfina (2006). "Why did the Scholars of al-Andalus distrust...

in what a number of modern scholars have seen as the golden age of Christian Arabic literature, Arab speaking Christian scholars wrote extensive theological...

himself from as-Sufi's teachings and moved in a different intellectual direction having been influenced by a number of Mauritanian scholars residing in the...

Ottoman Islamic scholar, sufi sheikh, and poet buried in Beshiktash, Istanbul. He served as a teacher of sacred sciences during the reign of Sultan Suleiman...

17th-century Punjabi Sufi mystic, poet, scholar and historian. He was active in the Punjab region (present-day Pakistan) during the reigns of Mughal emperors...

Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order of America (NQSOA) is an educational organization devoted to spreading the teachings of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi tariqah in America...

was one of the Islamic "gunpowder empires". The Safavid Empire originated from Ardabil in Iran and had its origins in a long established Sufi order, called...