The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical Tradition Khaldūn Ibn
The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical Tradition Khaldūn Ibn Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholarIn The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian…
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The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical Tradition Khaldūn Ibn
Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholarIn The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, he writes from the perspective of a Islamic jurist and legal scholar. Ibn Khaldūn is widely known for his groundbreaking work as a sociologist and historian, in particular for the Muqaddimah, the introduction to his massive universal history.
In doing so, he relies on the works of influential Sufi scholars, including al-Qushayrī, al-Ghazālī, and Ibn al-Khaṭīb. He characterizes Sufism and the stages along the Sufi path and takes up the the question of the need for a guide along that path. Even as Ibn Khaldūn warns of the extremes to which