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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cüneyd Yildirim

Titel

Sufismus als Esoterik

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft, 2018-12

Ort / Verlag

Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In most older, comparative studies of Sufism the term esoteric appears in addition to mystic, yet there is no theoretical justification for this. The following article aims to present a theoretical basis for the use of “esoteric” in the context of Sufism with the help of two models of Jan Assmann. The focus here is on the analysis of the structure of Sufi knowledge with reference to some classics of Sufi literature. The theory of the twofold religion (religio duplex) of Assmann as well as his characterisation of the Alexandrian Hermetism both serve as heuristic models. The proposed approach to the study of Sufi epistemology further enables the analysis of the power that is constituted by that knowledge.