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" Certitude (in Ṣūfism) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Khalil, Atif
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English
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1061232
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ALei1629
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Khalil, Atif
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Certitude (in Ṣūfism) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Khalil, Atif
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(932 words)
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In the technical lexicon of Ṣūfism , certitude (yaqīn) refers to a state of knowledge about the nature of reality—centred primarily on God, prophecy, death, and the postulates of religion—that is not susceptible to doubt, obfuscation, or disproof. In his famous autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl (“The deliverance from error”), al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) argued that only the Ṣūfīs possessed true certainty (or a certainty worthy of its name) and that this was the fruit of direct, experiential knowledge or “tasting” (dhawq) . Their state, he felt, was
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