Comparative Sufism: Readings in the Concept, Characteristics, and Study Possibilities قراءات في المفهوم والخصائص وإمكانات الدراسة

Abstract

The celebration of the history of religions by recording various spiritual experiences and multiple mystical patterns, until it became a phenomenon inherent to religion and its history, so it does not cease from it. authorized the establishment of a special field of knowledge known as comparative mysticism, for this reason this research paper seeks - after arming the historical and comparative analytical methods - to find out what this field of knowledge is, and to shed light on the sum of efforts made in studying the Sufi phenomenon, in order to find out its common characteristics, and to extract a rule The possibility of studying Sufism scientifically, and that its essence and purpose are the same despite its different forms and manifestations.