The Teaching Relationship in Early Sufism: A Reassessment of Fritz Meier's Definition of the shaykh al-tarbiya and the shaykh al-ta'lim

From: The Muslim World | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In response to the Prophet's command to seek knowledge, it was commonplace during the period prior to the institutionalization of religious sciences for students to travel from one teacher to another teacher even over great distances.1 Those who called themselves Sufis were no exception in their own search for knowledge, and the teaching relationships among them paralleled the model of traditional study common to the time. In fact, many Sufis traveled, just as the Hadith compilers did, in search of the sayings of different shaykhs in addition to seeking direction on the spiritual path. ...

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