Matters of the heart

THE rich and diverse Islamic tradition of South Asia has been shaped by several eminent Sufis arriving from Iran and Central Asia. Although many Sufi shrines are frequented by Muslim and non-Muslim devotees alike, the underlying philosophy of Sufism or Tasawwuf is firmly rooted in the Quran. Like the Muslim jurists who established their distinct terminology to unify Islamic jurisprudence or fiqh, Sufism evolved its own specific parlance and introduced terms like ‘zikr’, ‘qalb’, ‘nafs’, ‘musha...

By none@none.com (Syed Ali Imran)