Tariqa Islam: Layers of Authentication

​What does Sufism mean in its Tariqa form? How is Tariqa rationality formed between textual authentication and practical spiritual striving? These questions cannot be answered without returning to the rites of worship and their division into kinds (wird, wazifa, haylala, dhikr) when they began to take on their spatial and organizational space at various times that were instituted at an early period under al-Kalabadhi (10th century AD) and were transmitted to al-Suhrawardi (12th century AD) on to al-Shaarani (15th century AD). This Sufi thread through time led to the formation of methodological structures in accord with spatial environmental conditions and which relied on local organizations and sheikhs of the Tariqas who taught the people the essentials of worship (purity, calmness, silence, reverence, submission). This helped form special schools of fiqh distinct from those found in the doctrinal authorities. What then is the fiqh of the Tariqa and its rulings? This study tries to explain this historically and in terms of the belief.

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​What does Sufism mean in its Tariqa form? How is Tariqa rationality formed between textual authentication and practical spiritual striving? These questions cannot be answered without returning to the rites of worship and their division into kinds (wird, wazifa, haylala, dhikr) when they began to take on their spatial and organizational space at various times that were instituted at an early period under al-Kalabadhi (10th century AD) and were transmitted to al-Suhrawardi (12th century AD) on to al-Shaarani (15th century AD). This Sufi thread through time led to the formation of methodological structures in accord with spatial environmental conditions and which relied on local organizations and sheikhs of the Tariqas who taught the people the essentials of worship (purity, calmness, silence, reverence, submission). This helped form special schools of fiqh distinct from those found in the doctrinal authorities. What then is the fiqh of the Tariqa and its rulings? This study tries to explain this historically and in terms of the belief.

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