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It is often said that the Sufi path transcends the boundaries of discursive thought and the limits of language itself Yet Sufi masters past and present have rarely been at a loss for words. While the tradition’s inner dimensions may ultimately be ineffable, Sufis have managed to produce a vast and remarkably diverse range of texts. In today’s South Asia, a broad spectrum of Sufi works are written, published, and consumed. Communicated in myriad languages in both poetry and prose, Sufi works explore history, doctrine, and practice. Others enter the more mundane realm of politics and polemics. As a comprehensive system of knowledge and practice, Sufism continues to engage both inward (batin ) and the outward (zahir )—the mind and the body, the individual and society, religion and politics.
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Rozehnal, R. (2007). Imagining Sufism: The Publication of Chishti Sabiri Identity. In: Islamic Sufism Unbound. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-60572-5_4
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