Sufism

Ross explores aspects of Sufi or tasawwuf practice, in particular dzikir--the use of breath, song, and memory to fix God in one's heart--finding many parallels with Topeng practice.

Secondly, we can say that the globalisation of the Islamic experience in the West and beyond is going to force more orthodox Muslim groups (such as Salafian, Maududian and Wahhabian groups) who may continue to resist such practices to leave the practitioners of tasawwuf alone.

According to Ruh al Islam, a book authored by his son Makhdoom Mian Ahmed Abbasi, which deals with tasawwuf (Sufism), Makhdoom Mian Ibrahim Abbasi was the Qazi of Dera and Sheikh al Mashaikh of his time.

We would not be practicing the concept of 'tasawwuf' (purification of heart) then,' he added.

A symposium is held on the sidelines of the conference on "Institutional Governance of Tasawwuf Life in Ottoman Empire." The first forum was organized by the Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM), an international think-tank based in Turkey.

Earlier, addressing the International Conference on 'Role of Tasawwuf in the Promotion of Peace and Harmony', the Interior Minister said self-confidence was a pre-requisite to progress and freedom, adding people with a negative mind-set become victims of despondency and hopelessness.

Sufism, known as tasawwuf in the Arabic-speaking world, is a form of Islamic mysticism that emphasises introspection and spiritual closeness with God.

Tasawwuf is one of the Islamic schools of thoughts, like Tafseer, Hadith, Fiqah, Maani Tasawwuf etc.

To trace the roots of Islam in the subcontinent, "Persia has been the fountainhead of tasawwuf" from diverse Sufi orders, especially the Qadiriyas, Ajmeris, Chishtis; Sufis from these orders came and settled in the Indian subcontinent and embarked upon preaching Islam.

There are three mystic Muslim texts (tasawwuf) by the same Maghrebin author, 'Ali Ibn Maymun al-Fasi (d.

It is this confusion of desire in Romanticism and Tasawwuf that translates for Rashid the wasteland of his Saba into a wasteland of Tasawwuf, into a wasteland of Sufi love.