The Influence of Philosophical Sufism on the Islamic World

Konawi was taking on the more technical philosophically influenced aspects of Imanādabi. Maybe we could even say that in a sense they take on two different sides of Imanēdabi's thought because obviously Rumi is full of poetic imagery and also there's the earlier tradition of love, poetry and sufism. And how appropriate that he was uniting these apparently contradictory tendencies in himself.