Trends in Sufism:From the Beginning until the Fifth Century AH
Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism
1 - کارشناس ارشد عرفان اسلامی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد دهاقان- دبیر آموزش و پرورش استان اصفهان
Keywords: Sufi, Monastery, Wool goods covering, Sufism,
Abstract :
The word Sufism is derived from Arabic and is the name of a tribe’s religion from the fact that it has been purified from ego and knows the objects of universe as a manifestation of God. From the first days of its creation until the fifth century, Sufism has undergone several changes. Sometimes it progressed and some other time it became inactivated. Sufism underwent through up and downs during its contemporary age and many Sufis dedicated their life to it. This survey studies Sufism and its changes from the first until the fifth centuries with an analytical method in order to emphasize the issue that the words Sufism and Sufi had entered in Islamic culture from the second century AH and the third century is accounted as the golden age of Sufism. Monastery establishment, woolen goods covering and sectarianism were common within this century. In the fourth century a general structure was created for Sufism. Not only were Poem and prose used for expressing Sufi’s ideas in the fifth century, but also Sufis benefited from the expression of freedom