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For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi practitioners and thinkers. Those initiated into its mysteries have sometimes expressed them in ecstatic poetry, in a symbolic language of love, or in reasoned prose. These essays by such contemporary writers... read more
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Sufism, Tasawwuf, which is the esoteric or inward (batin) aspect of Islam, is to be distinguished from exoteric or "external" (zahir) Islam just as direct contemplation of spiritual or divine realities is distinguishable from the fulfulling of the laws which translate them in the individual order in connection with the conditions of a particular phase of humanity.
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