AT A TIME OF FIERCE CONFLICT AND SECTARIAN DIVISION, SUFISM CAN HELP TO INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION OF MUSLIM FOLLOWERS EAGER TO EXPRESS THEIR INNER CONVICTIONS AND RECONNECT WITH THEIR LOST HERITAGE.
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Confronting Modernity:
Why the revival of Islamic Sufism matters
by Shaheen Whyte
The Muslim experience of the modern world has been brutal. Colonial rule left behind it a legacy of interminable conflicts and political upheavals across much of the Middle East and North Africa, together with a desperate struggle on the part of Muslims themselves to find an appropriate political system that is capable of unifying their ethnic, religious and territorial divisions.
It is in this context that Muslims need to explore alternative approaches to the failed ideologies of the past, or indeed revive some of its lost traditions that for so long kept its civilisation intact and immune from dogmatic and violent discourses. This lost heritage is, of course, Islam's mystical or esoteric path -Sufism.
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