Book Title: Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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________________ Chapter - 11 SufismThe Essence of Islam A fundamental doctrine of Islam is total and absolute surrender to the Almighty. Sufis worked out this doctrine to its logocal end and that is why unlike some traditionalists, they could think independently of clerical interpretations of Islamic scriptures. Backdrop Though some Sufi thinkers believe that Sufi philosophy existed even before the advant of Islam, one would not be out of mark if it is taken for granted that the roots of Sufism, as it developed subseqently in 11th and 12th Cent., were in the thinking of "Mutzils" who came into prominance after two centuries Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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