Western Sufism with Mark Sedgwick
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The Evolution of Sufism in the West
The first Sufi text to be translated into Latin and then into other European languages is Hayab and Yaksan. The people who are reading this do not actually realize that they're reading a Sufi text, he says. They think they'reReading a philosophical text but what do we mean by philosophy of course? And it's really that understanding of Sufi that sets the scene in Europe and then especially in the 19th century in the United States for real life Suf.
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