In most Muslim societies, pioneering Sufi mysticism taught the principles of Islam in a simple way by committing its disciples to a special moral and social order with a specific worshipping recitation based on the Holy Qur’an and the Hadith (the Prophet’s sayings and deeds). “The Mawlawiyah (“Mevlevis” in Turkish), known to the West as
One of the world’s major and fastest-growing religions, Islam is practiced by about 1.3 billion adherents throughout the world, about one fifth of the world’s population. A monotheistic faith, Islam literally means “submission to the will” of God in Arabic, the language of its origin and of its sacred text, the Koran. Islam was founded
The birth of Islam coincided with radical change in the anthropological and sociocultural situation of Arab populations which, in about the seventh century CE, had already been affected by strong social tensions and by a number of important religious upheavals. If pre-Islamic societies are generally to be considered as poly theistic, the presence, since the
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