Mystics and Saints of Islam
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Mystics and Saints of Islam is by Claud Field. The preface says it is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in it. The text turns to the pages of Ghazzali, who says that the speculations of the Sufis may be divided into two classes. A century after Hellaj, an Egyptian named Ismail Darazy, from whom the Druses derive their name, proclaimed the Fatimite Caliph Hakim to be an incarnation.
Al Asha'ari, himself formerly a Mutazilite, renounced his heresies and sought to defend orthodoxy and confute the heretics on philosophical grounds. The most dangerous sect of all, the text says, was that of the Ismailians and Assassins, with their doctrine of a hidden Imam or leader. An appendix says that the almost miraculous renaissance in Islam which is now proceeding in Turkey and other Mohammedan countries reminds one forcibly of Dante's lines.
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- Author
- Claud Field
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 107
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Biography
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