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2 days ago · Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, asceticism, and esotericism.
- History of Sufism
Early history. The exact origin of Sufism is disputed. Some...
- List of Sufi Orders
Further reading. Yves Bomati and Houchang Nahavandi (ed.)....
- Shaykh
Sheikh (/ ʃ eɪ k, ʃ iː k / SHAYK, SHEEK, Arabic: شَيْخ,...
- List of Modern Sufi Scholars
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- Chain of Successive Teachers
Silsila (Arabic: سِلْسِلَة) is an Arabic word meaning chain,...
- History of Sufism
4 days ago · Introduction. The town of Witney, (fn. 1) by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century within a large pre-Conquest estate.
1 day ago · The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture.
1 day ago · The massive basalt slab, measuring 11½ feet in diameter and weighing more than 24 tons, had been buried less than three feet beneath the surface, with its sculptured face down. The Calendar Stone was one of three large Aztec sculptures rediscovered in 1790 and 1791, along with the famous Coatlicue goddess statue and the Stone of Tizoc.
1 day ago · In amniotes, the clitoris (/ ˈ k l ɪ t ər ɪ s / ⓘ KLIT-ər-iss or / k l ɪ ˈ t ɔːr ɪ s / ⓘ klih-TOR-iss; pl.: clitorises or clitorides) is a female sex organ. In humans, it is the vulva's most erogenous area and generally the primary anatomical source of female sexual pleasure. The clitoris is a complex structure, and its size and ...
- Clitoris
2 days ago · Price: £45.00. Katie Stevenson, in her Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424–1513, presents a thorough, scholarly, and informative research monograph. The years 1424 to 1513 carry one from the return to his kingdom of James I, after the long detention in England following his capture as a boy of twelve in 1406, to the death of James IV ...
4 days ago · assassination, the murder of a public figure. The term typically refers to the killing of government leaders and other prominent persons for political purposes—such as to seize power, to start a revolution, to draw attention to a cause, to exact revenge, or to undermine a regime or its critics. Such politically motivated murders have taken ...
