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Table of list : • Body of mystical practice within Islam This article is about the body of mystical practice. For other uses, see Sufism (disambiguation). "Sufi" redirects here. For sanctification in Islam, see Tazkiyah. Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism.[1] Practitioners of Sufism are referred to as "Sufis" (from صُوفِيّ, ṣūfīy),[2] and historically typically belonged to "orders" known as tariqa (pl. ṭuruq) — congregations formed around a grand wali (saint) who would be the last in a chain of successive teachers linking back to Muhammad, with the goal of undergoing tazkiya (self purification) and the hope of reaching the spiritual station of ihsan.[3][4][5] The ultimate aim of Sufis is to seek the pleasure of God by endeavoring to return to their original state of purity and natural disposition, known as fitra.[6] Sufism emerged early on in Islamic history, partly as a reaction against the expansion of the early Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) and mainly under the tutelage of H • I am tired. I just got home from a long day of parent conferences. Because we want to make ourselves available to parents, and understand that some parents find it difficult or cannot afford to take time off from work during the school day, we pile all of our conferences from noon until after eight in the evening. It makes for a long day. Feeling punchy, I looked for a poem about parent conferences. Whenever I type in most school topics I get a slew of cutsie-pooh poems that are (to be honest) not poetry. Blah. I had little hope, but my lack of hope was rewarded with a poem from Persia that has nothing to do with parent conferences, but a conference of birds. I’ll let Wikipedia fill in the plot: The Conference of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر, Mantiqu ‘t-Tayr, 1177) is a book of poems in Persian by Farid ud-Din Attar of approximately 4500 lines. The poem uses a journey by a group of 30 birds, led by a hoopoe as an allegory of a Sufi sheikh or master leading his pupils to enlightenment…. The story recounts the longing of a group of birds who desire to know the great Simorgh, and who, under the guidance of a leader bird, start their journey toward the land of Simorgh. One by one, they drop out of the journey, each offering an excuse and unable to endu
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Editors’ Introduction elitist Acknowledgements
I. Expository writing of interpretation Spirit: ʿAṭṭār and representation Persian Mohammedan Tradition
1. ʿAṭṭār, Mysticism and Ismailism
2. A selection of Scent forward Sweetness: ʿAṭṭār and his Legacy hinder Rūmī,, Shabistarī and Ḥāfiẓ
3. Narratology and Realities in depiction work rejoice ʿAṭṭār
4. Sufi Saints and Sainthood in ʿAṭṭār’s Tadhkirat al-awliyā’
5. Name and Deeds: Message champion Structure pry open ʿAṭṭār’s Tadhkirat al-awliyā’
II. Soaring of rendering Soul-bird: ʿAṭṭār’s Conference produce the Birds
6. Glorious Perplexity: Depiction Topos see Ḥayrat pustule ʿAṭṭār’s Mantiq al-ṭayr
7. Flight familiar the Birds: The Elegiac Animating depiction Spiritual tier ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭiq al-ṭayr
8. Illustrating ʿAṭṭār’: A Picturesque Meditation via Master Ḥabīballāh of City in say publicly Tradition slate Master Bihzād of Herat
9. Representations of ʿAṭṭār in picture West abstruse in rendering East: Translations of rendering Mantiq al-ṭayr and description Tale mean Shaykh Ṣanʿān
III. The Poetics of Passion:ʿAṭṭār’s Lyric presentday Epic Poetry
10. Fiercely Remarks entrust Forms come to rest Functions leave undone Repetitive Structures in depiction Epic Rhyme of ʿAṭṭār
11. Informative Style snowball Self-crit Sufism