Week 7

Question 1

The Ascetics

Answer 1

Withdrawing from this world is their primary goal. Reflecting on the Qur’an is how they find God.

Question 2

Sufism

Answer 2

Name came to be because of their trademark wool clothes.

Question 3

al-Hasan al-Basri

Answer 3

The founding father of Sufism (also of kalam)

Question 4

Rabi’a al-Adawiyya

Answer 4

Famous female controversial mystic

Question 5

Rida

Answer 5

Complete reliance on God and unquestioning contentment with his will.

Question 6

al-Hallaj

Answer 6

Very open Sufi, was executed by the Abbasids for heresy.

Question 7

The Systemization of Sufism

Answer 7

After al-Hallaj execution, Sufis reconciled their teachings with Sunni creed.

Question 8

Shaykh and Murid

Answer 8

The first is a master in Sufi and the second is disciples in Sufi.

Question 9

Turuq/Tariqa

Answer 9

Brotherhoods of Sufis

Question 10

Ijaza

Answer 10

A license for a Sufi to gain disciples.

Question 11

Dhikir

Answer 11

A Sufi ceremony thing.

Question 12

Awliya’

Answer 12

A friend of God or saint.

Question 13

Karamat

Answer 13

Those seen with supernatural power in Sufism

Question 14

Tauhid

Answer 14

Oneness with God

Question 15

Madrasa

Answer 15

Local school of sufi

Question 16

Zawiya, Ribat

Answer 16

Sufi lodges

Question 17

Al-Alawi

Answer 17

Very popular Algerian sufi in 1914.

Question 18

Ali, the Kharijites & Umayyad

Answer 18

Believed in strive for personal purity, moral uprightness without withdrawing from the world.

Question 19

Sufism in Central Asia & Ottoman Empire

Answer 19

Ottoman Empire - Khalwatiyya

Central Asia - Qalandariyya