Shii News – ‘Impostors, Antinomians and Pseudo-Sufis’
Posted in: Field-specific (academic), IranImpostors, Antinomians and Pseudo-Sufis: Cataloguing the Miscreants | Journal of Islamic Studies | Oxford Academic
From the fourth/tenth century onwards, numerous Sufi authors found it necessary to identify groups they regarded as inauthentic, as false claimants to the Sufism they claimed to espouse. Particularly energetic in this regard was Ghazālī; in a treatise denouncing them together with other antinomians, he called for their eradication.
- April 23, 2018
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