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Before Sufism: Early Islamic renunciant piety

By Christopher Melchert

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2020
ISBN
3110616513, 9783110616514
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1969294 bytes)
Series
Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society, 4; 4
Edition
1
Pages
240\250
Time added
2023-01-31 09:14:24

Description

Melchert identifies three stages in the development of early Islamic piety. As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century, renunciants spent nights weeping, reciting the Quran, and performing supererogatory ritual prayers. Later in the century, as Muslims became the majority population, outward austerity came under attack. Finally, in the later ninth century, a form of Sufism emerged that would accommodate all the believers.

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