Sufism is concerned with a broad trend within Islamicate societies towards expressing how taṣawwuf, as a path of spiritual refinement, has impacted religious, social, and political modes of human endeavour. If we look at taṣawwuf more specifically, we can identify a vibrant discourse of tho...
The Islamic mystical doctrine of the perfect human (al-insān al-kāmil) – whose bodily existence is deemed to mark the culmination of the cosmic process of divine self-disclosure – has had a lasting impact on Sufi thought and practice from the late medieval period onwards. It has also filter...