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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Two Schools of Tasawwuf

Baghdadi Sahw ("sobriety," of which Junayd is the emblem) on the outside (zahir)...



Khorasani Sukr ("intoxication," of which Bistami is the emblem) on the inside (batin)...



"The two traditions," as Darbandi and Davis remark, "are not wholly exclusive" (Attar, The Conference of the Birds, Penguin Classics, 12).



Two schools, one dervish.

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