Sufism

School·Founded 800 CE·uncounted — a current within Islam

Islam → Sufism

Branch

History & overview · every faith gets one

The heart can know God directly.

Islam's mystical current, running through both Sunni and Shia worlds: purification of the heart through remembrance, the guidance of a master, and love as the method — Rumi's path.

The founding

No single founder — Sufism accreted rather than began.

What it holds

The divine. One God.

Death and after. Judgment — and union sought before it.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it
Islam — 610 CE Sufism — 800 CE
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