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Naqshbandiyya/ Mujaddidiyya/ Saifiyya, led by Pir Saifur Rahman - Battle for
Islamic Tradition
.... Kenneth Lizzio - [Dieser
Artikel ist nur in Hinblick auf einige Geschichtsaspekte intessant,
spirituell jedoch kaum relevnat.] ....... This article examines each of these strategies — revival, rejection, and
accommodation — as they were employed by different branches of Naqshbandi/Mujaddidi
Sufis in response to the advent of modernism first in the Asian
sub-continent and later in Afghanistan. It will also examine the
consequences each approach had for their adherents and their teachings in
particular. Naqshbandis who adopted reformist approaches — whether
rejectionist or accomodationist — paradoxically ended up capitulating to the
very processes they sought to resist. Specifically, the decision by lineal
Mujaddidi Sufis to reform the positive heritage accumulated over the first
ten centuries of Islam by adopting modern social and political roles led to
a loss of their spiritual function as initiating shaikhs. In the case of one
major order, however, the Naqshbandiyya/Mujaddidiyya/Saifiyya, led by Pir
Saifur Rahman, the traditionalist or revivalist approach has been key to
maintaining its original identity as a mystical order. ....