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Ebrahim Khodayar, Amir Javan Arasteh, Hojjat Modarresi,
Volume 29, Issue 4 (10-2022)
Abstract
: Salafism and Sufism are two old Islamic movements that have had major conflicts throughout the history of Islam, which were mainly related to aspects of adherence to and respect for Islamic law and jurisprudence and different interpretations of religious texts. Simultaneously, these two movements have also had some interactions with each other, and there have emerged some individuals or groups who have combined a number of the manifestations of Sufi practices and actiond with those of Salafi and thus creating Salafi Sufism or Sufi Salafism. The Central Asian region is the cradle of a great number of Sufi orders. It has delivered great mystics to the Islamic society. Moreover, several signs of Sufism can be observed in its people’s general culture. However, the people’s inclination towards Islam at the time of liberation from the yoke of communism and the formation of Islamic groups and parties – who wanted Islam to play a greater role in governing the society – besides some countries’ cultural and propaganda exercise, it has led to the creation of various Salafi groups in the region. Naturally, Salafi’s entry into Central Asia’s mystical culture paves the way for the creation and growth of a discourse that has nurtured a combination of Salafism and Sufism in itself. The present study examines the Salafi Sufis in Central Asia and the Sufi-Salafi interactions in this region. Although there are many references on Sufism and Salafism in Central Asia, no independent reference on Salafi Sufism was found in the land.
Volume 30, Issue 2 (1-2023)
Abstract
Literature is the cultural heritage of nations and a manifestation of their civilization, culture and thought. This heritage has recorded historical and political aspects as well as socio-cultural and religious events using literary genres and poetry. The sorrowful event of Wahhabism in the Islamic world created a split in the cohesive fabric of the Islamic Ummah with its sectarianism and false thought as well as perverted religious decrees. The system of "Al-Aqud al-Darya on Al-Wahhabi suspicions" documented the suspicions of this stream. As rational and narrative reasons in defense of this belief - it indicates the institutionalization of religious themes and beliefs that are worthy of research and investigation. But the poet has tried to answer the Wahhabi beliefs and their suspicions by referring to the Qur'an, hadith, the life of the Prophet, and the stories of the early days of Islam. The three hated symbols of extortion, apostasy or takfir and terror are among the most prominent features of the illegitimate Wahhabi movement, which caused them to distance from Islam and Muslims and created a crisis in the Islamic world. Like other destructive movements, they placed falsehood and deception in order to achieve their goals, by forwarding slogans of monotheism and avoiding polytheism and dismantling superstitions and heresies.
Allameh Syed Mohsen Amin, a committed writer and poet, aware of such dangerous goals, rose to fight against them with the language of poetry and discovered and exposed the misleading thoughts and divisive fatwas of Wahhabism. He used verses, narrations, traditions, anecdotes and historical events of early Islam to prove his beliefs. This article aims to take a brief look at the history of the Wahhabi movement with a descriptive-analytical method and then examine the thematic and rhetorical literary system of al-Aqud al-Dariyyah.
