Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism.
Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature, especially poetry, that was written in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu. Sufi doctrines and organizations provided more freedom to literature than did the court poetry of the period. The Sufis borrowed elements of folklore in their literature.
The works of Nizami, Nava'i, Hafez, Sam'ani and Jami were more or less related to Sufism. The verse of such Sufi poets as Sanai (died c. 1140), Attar (born c. 1119), and Rumi (died 1273) protested against oppression with an emphasis on divine justice and criticized evil rulers, religious fanaticism and the greed and hypocrisy of the orthodox Muslim clergy. The poetic forms used by these writers were similar to the folk song, parable and fairy tale.
Sufiliterature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism. Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature...
has been used in Islamic literature with a wide range of meanings, by both proponents and opponents of Sufism. Classical Sufi texts, which stressed certain...
This Persian influence flooded South Asia with Islam, Sufi thought, syncretic values, literature, education, and entertainment that has created an enduring...
Sufi saints or Wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic...
(2007). SUFISM AND ENGLISH LITERATURE : Chaucer to the Present Age. Adam Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7435-523-2. Sufi martyrs of love By Carl...
widely imitated by many Sufi and non-Sufi poets. See also the article on Sufi poetry. Many notable texts in Persian mystic literature are not poems, yet highly...
that early Sufiliterature, in the form of manuals, treatises, discourses and poetry, became the source of Sufi thinking and meditations. Sufi philosophy...
and Zulaikha. It became a classical example and the most famous version of Sufi interpretation of Qur’anic narrative material. Jami's example shows how a...
written during 1421-1434 AD, by Fakhruddin Nizami of Bidar. It contains a Sufi tale designed to describe the soul's present state and its liberation, in...
of Islamic wisdom, but primarily focuses on emphasizing inward personal Sufi interpretation. In contrast to Rumi's Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi, the Masnavi...
This list article contains names of notable people commonly considered as Sufis or otherwise associated with Sufism. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...
of 1st millennium CE or before. The story also appears in 2nd millennium Sufi and Baháʼí Faith lore. The tale later became well known in Europe, with 19th-century...
extant text among the important works in Awadhi. A famous piece of Sufiliterature from the period, it relates an allegorical fictional story about the...
There are three central ideas in Sufi Islamic psychology, which are the Nafs (self, ego or psyche), the Qalb (heart) and the Ruh (spirit). The origin and...
writer of mystical Sufiliterature. He was primarily a prominent poet-theologian of the school of Ibn Arabi and a Khwājagānī Sũfī, recognized for his...
Maqasid al Falasifa (Arabic: مقاصد الفلاسفة), or The Aims of the Philosophers was written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali. Influenced by...
its eyewitness. His Qissa is deemed to be the oldest Heer in Punjabi literature. He stated himself to be from Jhang—the home of Heer. 16th century poet...
13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's works were...
also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is...
popularity of the legend has influenced Middle Eastern literature, especially Sufi writers, in whose literature the name Layla refers to their concept of the Beloved...
Louise (2021). The Symbolic Function of Angels in the Qurʾān and SufiLiterature (PhD thesis). American University of Beirut. hdl:10938/22446. Chipman...
The following is a list of notable Sufi orders or schools (tariqa). Ahmad al-Alawi Ba 'Alawiyya (Ba’ Alawi tariqa) Badawiyya (Badawi tariqa) Bektashi (Bektashiyyah...
Gallorini, Louise. THE SYMBOLIC FUNCTION OF ANGELS IN THE QURʾĀN AND SUFILITERATURE. Diss. 2021. p. 125. Schöck, Cornelia (1996). "Die Träger des Gottesthrones...