Sufism: Spiritual and Cultural Traditions in India

Guzel Ferdinandovna Mratkhuzina,Alfiya Marselevna Khabibullina,Dmitriy Vyacheslavovich Bobkov,Ishtiak Gilkar Ahmad

doi:10.7596/taksad.v8i3.2258

Guzel Ferdinandovna Mratkhuzina, Alfiya Marselevna Khabibullina + Show 2 more

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Abstract

The relevance of the topic is determined by the necessity of further research of cultural and spiritual traditions in India, for the study of the history of Islam spread and establishment, and for development of the Sufi doctrine formation theory. Taking into account the local history aspect of the topic, we note that now we are seeing a gradual restoration of Sufism in Tatarstan. It is a reference to the past of Sufism in the region, an appeal to the religious heritage of the Tatar people. The leading approach to the study of this topic is the theoretical and conceptual, historical and scholarly understanding of continuity in the sequential study of this topic.This article aims to achieve the following aims: the analysis and evaluation of Sufism as a constituent of Indian culture, aimed at ensuring the implementation of modern ethical and aesthetic concepts of Sunni Islam, their transformation in the mass consciousness of the Muslim peoples of India.The main results of this study are the identification and development of the accumulated material on the stated topic, and further development of its theoretical and practical bases. Referring to centuries of experience and traditions of Islam, it is important to turn to the study of the history and philosophy of Sufism in the Indian subcontinent.

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Whatever the etymological roots of Sufism may be, it is certain that Sufis, who had a profound impact on the social structures of Asia, is a well-organized group within the context of Muslim culture (Safiullina al-Annecy, 2016)
Ethical and aesthetic concepts of Sufism have been transformed in the minds of some Eurasian peoples, and found their expression in the worldview of the Muslim peoples of Russia (Iordan, 2001)
In India, Sufism was typically Indian in nature and, even more typically, it was Sindhi Sufism in both its content and quality

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Whatever the etymological roots of Sufism may be, it is certain that Sufis, who had a profound impact on the social structures of Asia, is a well-organized group within the context of Muslim culture (Safiullina al-Annecy, 2016). The introduction of Sufism among the ancestors of modern Tatars occurred in Volga Bulgaria era. In the Golden Horde, the process of Islamization occurred along with the spread of Sufism, and it continued after the collapse of the Horde in the territory of the newly formed Tatar khanates, including Kazan. (Mrathuzina, & Nasrutdinova 2015) With Sufism ideas of Islam took root among the poorest of Indians, who never had a chance to read the Koran because of their illiteracy. The Great Moguls, up to Aurangzeb, honored Sufi teachers and implemented policies of orthodox Islam (Khayrutdinov, et al, 2017)

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