Publication: Inayatian Mystical Movement As A Deviant Sect In Contemporary Muslim World
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2016
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Journal of Education and Social Science
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The paper investigates the Mystical Ontology of Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the Indian Sufi master who presented Universal Sufism to the Western Culture, and established the Sufi Order International in 1920 as an international organization which has more than 100 Centres in the contemporary World. The Purpose of this study is to analyse Inayat Khan's mystical thoughts that include Non-dualistic concepts such as Manifestation of God, Divine Being and divinity of human soul. The Sufi message presented by Inayat Khan creates contradictions and confusions in the basics and principles of Islam as they are presented in the name of Islam and Sufism. It is primarily based on qualitative and textual research in which an analysis of Inayat Khan's works is employed as the founding method. It shows further how Inayat Khan systematized Non dualistic ideas and his own in a complex colour symbolism and expounded the monistic concept of God. The paper concludes that Inayat Khan introduced a Philosophy of Non dualism and Religious Pluralism in Muslim dress
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Non dualism, Religious Pluralism, Sufi Order International, and Western Sufism
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Journal of Education and Social Sciences, Vol. 5, (October) 2016 ISSN 2289-1552