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Prilog slojevitosti komunikacije u sufizmu
Contribution to the communication layering in Sufism

Author(s): Senella Krehić-Fočak
Subject(s): Education, Communication studies, Islam studies
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Tasavvuf / Sufis; communication; teacher / shaykh; spiritual path; communication; glossary intrapersonal; interpersonal; group and mass intracommunication; gnosis;

Summary/Abstract: Today, communication in the modern world is being studied in various fields of science. Research in Sufism is a particular challenge, given the existence of some other forms of communication, other than known: intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, mass communication, including layers of irrational and extra-national. Researching and bringing to certain rational consequences and the justification of knowledge and concepts of communication in Sufism is even more complicated if one knows that there is a special hierarchy of personality and a special path of spiritual journey with states and stations. Given the redundant scale of knowledge, through hermeneutics in communication in Sufism, there is a tendency to bring the communication closer or down from the level of the Sufi to a level close to familiar and practiced forms of communication, requiring that the familiar terms from the Sufi dictionary become translated into communication terms. The paper presents the division of the Sufi concepts in a way forms of communication are divided, translating the familiar terms of the Sufi dictionary, within the context of communicative science, and adding somewhat from the field of intracommunication, that is, from the field of gnosis for easier comprehension and understanding for those who want to expand their knowledge in those areas, as well as for wider audience.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2018
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 165-179
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian