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Ebū Sa`īdovih četrdeset duhovnih postaja
Ebū Sa`īd’s forty spiritual stations

Author(s): Elvir Musić
Subject(s): Education, Islam studies, Religion and science
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Spiritual stations; maqaam; tasavvuf; Ebū Sa`īd Ebū-l Ḫayr;

Summary/Abstract: Through past centuries Islamic pedagogy has given rise to numerous methods of education of people of different ages and different segments of the human personality. Among these educational methods, a significant place takes the method of spiritual education inherent to tasavvuf approach to religious wisdom. The tasavvuf method of education is based on the gradual purification of the person’s inner self in order to be able to take a journey that leads to spiritual perfection. In accordance with the station in this spiritual journey in which a specific person is and with spiritual states that they feel, different and specific educational methods are applied. Differences in approaches to this spiritual journey, however, gave rise to the different approaches to graduation and the order of the spiritual stations. Among the most detailed gradation of spiritual stations is the one preserved by famous tasavvuf leader Abu Sa`īd Abu-l Hayri.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2016
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 63-74
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian