Abstract
Sufism is generally defined as a mystical and Muslim current whose objective would be, by means of absolute submission to the intrinsic principles of a rigidly orthodox Islam, to achieve moral and spiritual perfection. In a straight line of always recalling the profound meaning and supreme purpose of religion, al-Ghazâlî was always of the opinion that Islam must be apprehended in the outward and inward dimensions, the letter and the spirit. This prompted him, at the end of a decade-long spiritual retreat, to try to breathe, through an orthodoxized mysticism, a new breath into an Islam that has never been seen before threatened to ankylose in a fixed juridism. However, Sufism was often stumbled against the delusions used by narcissistic introverts to mystify the less informed, hence the all-out criticism it has always been the object of since its outbreak. His definitive rehabilitation passed through Abû Ḥâmid al-Ghazâlî whose panacea he proposed managed, all the same, to give him the right of citizenship in the Islamic landscape while bringing together systematically the jurists and the Sufis.
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