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EP.47--Religion: From Asceticism to Mysticism
EP.47--Religion: From Asceticism to Mysticism
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 19, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
This episode discusses a further step in the later rise of full-fledged Sufi orientations within the world of Islam. We encounter the concepts of ma`rifa (intuitive knowledge), fana' (annihilation in God), and baqa' (subsistence), as well as the important figures of Bistami (d.875), al-Junayd (d.910), and al-Hallaj (d.922).
Released:
Dec 19, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (56)
EP.3--Religion: The Pre-Islamic Environment II (Christianity, Zoroastrianism): This episode of the World of Islam continues looking into the world in which the religion of Islam would eventually develop. We will take a brief look at Christianity and Zoroastrianism in the Near East of late antiquity. by The World of Islam: Culture, Religion, and Politics