ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL INDIA
SUFISM
MUHAMMED JUNAID
,SUFISM
● Sufism and origin
● Features
● Sufi Silsilas
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,SUFISM AND ORIGIN
● Started in Central Asia and Middle East Spread to North India.
● Partly as a reaction against the worldly life of Umayyad
Caliphate.
● Recognised that the instruction and the teachings of
Hasan-al-Basri of Iraq soon known as Sufism.
● Emerged in India with the role of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti of
Ajmer.
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, FEATURES
● Sufism expressed its devotion to God in three ways: poetry,music
and dance of love towards God.
● Bashara(Sufi saints bounded by Sharia) and Beshara(not
bounded by Sharia).
● Pir or Khwaja or Murshid : Sufi spiritual guide or Guru-He lived in
Khanqah.
● Devotion is more important than fasting and prayer or Namaz.
● They believe that love and devotion are the only means of
reaching to God.
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SUFISM
MUHAMMED JUNAID
,SUFISM
● Sufism and origin
● Features
● Sufi Silsilas
2
,SUFISM AND ORIGIN
● Started in Central Asia and Middle East Spread to North India.
● Partly as a reaction against the worldly life of Umayyad
Caliphate.
● Recognised that the instruction and the teachings of
Hasan-al-Basri of Iraq soon known as Sufism.
● Emerged in India with the role of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti of
Ajmer.
3
, FEATURES
● Sufism expressed its devotion to God in three ways: poetry,music
and dance of love towards God.
● Bashara(Sufi saints bounded by Sharia) and Beshara(not
bounded by Sharia).
● Pir or Khwaja or Murshid : Sufi spiritual guide or Guru-He lived in
Khanqah.
● Devotion is more important than fasting and prayer or Namaz.
● They believe that love and devotion are the only means of
reaching to God.
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