Motif
attempted reconciliation of institutional religion and mysticism
attempted_reconciliation_of_institutional_religion_and_mysticism
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / JALALUDDIN RUMI / CHAPTER XV; lines 4547-4637 confidence: medium
Ghazzali is described as attempting to reconcile orthodox Islam with Sufi doctrines, especially in The Revival of the Religious Sciences, and as forming a system combining dogmatic theology with Arab mystical theosophy.
Ghazzali is described as combining dogmatic theology with Arab mystical theosophy, while the passage states that the reconciliation remained only apparent because the two principles were incompatible.
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