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What is Sufism?
Module 1: Course Introduction
Approach of the Course (25:06)
Course Outline (5:53)
Module 2: Spiritual Foundations (650-850)
Introduction (2:12)
Early development (8:47)
Inward turn (18:24)
Contemplation of the Qur’an and Sunna (31:50)
Origin of the term Sufi (8:39)
Conclusion (3:03)
Module 3: Emergence of Sufism (850-1000)
Introduction (6:52)
Imam al-Junayd (23:24)
The Model of the Path (31:16)
Al-Tustari (19:22)
Al-Hallaj (11:59)
Conclusion (3:45)
Module 4: Systemisation of Sufism (1000-1100)
Introduction (8:13)
Spread of Baghdad Sufism (11:01)
Specialised Sufi literature (24:33)
Formalisation of disciple communities (19:32)
Conclusion (2:48)
Module 5: The Spread of Sufism & the Rise of the Sufi Orders (1100-1400)
Introduction (8:10)
Textual expansion (30:34)
Geographic expansion (9:58)
Social expansion (25:11)
Institutional expansion & Rise of the Sufi Orders (35:05)
Critique of Sufi practice as innovation (40:16)
Conclusion (3:30)
Module 6: Sufism in the Age of Empires (1400-1800)
Introduction (8:32)
Indigenous critique of Sufism in the Early Modern World (12:44)
Sufism in the Ottoman Empire (23:36)
Sufism in North and West Africa (15:27)
Conclusion (3:39)
Module 7: Sufism amidst Colonialism and Reform & Sufism in the West (1800-2000)
Introduction (12:56)
Colonial and Orientalist critique (17:42)
Modernist Salafi critique (11:19)
Wahhabi rejection (10:34)
Reinvention of Sufism (17:43)
Sufism in the West (14:51)
Conclusion (2:13)
Module 8: Course Conclusion
Conclusion (35:57)
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