A Survey of the Spread of Sufism in India with an Emphasis on the Historical Development of Pantheism from IbnArabi to Bidel
Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research
Masood sedghi
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(دانشجوی دکتری دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات، عرفان اسلامی، تهران، ایران)
Abolfazl Mahmoodi
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(دانشیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات، عرفان اسلامی، تهران، ایران)
Keywords: comparative literature, Transmission, Pantheism, IbnArabi, Bidel,
Abstract :
Contrary to some researchers, Islamic Sufism has the East as its origin and through various ways from Buddhism and other religions in India found its way into the Islamic world. The pantaistic ideas current in India fist appeared in the Khorasan school of Sufism and from there found its way into the Iraqi school of Sufism. Mohialdin of Arabi of Andalusia who is credited with the creation or at least the arrangement of Sufism and its philosophy, has to a great deal influence Sufism. The works of IbnArabi accompanied with their explications, criticism or even excommunications spread through the Islamic word and even found their way in the remotest parts of the East outside its borders. MirzaAbdolghaderDehlawi known in Iran as Dehlawi has been much influenced by the ideas of IbnArabi, so far that he can be considered as the greatest commentators on the ideas of IbnArabi. Bidel, despite being famous and popular in the Persian-speaking Indian subcontinent and middle Asia, is not much known in Iran. This research through a comparative traces the transfer of Sufism to India. Then analyzes the influence of the Idea of IbnArabi on Sufism and specially the idea of pantheism which is found in the poetry of Dehlawi.