اَلطُّرُقُ الصُّوفِيَّة
Currents & orders
Tarîqa · The paths
Fourteen great spiritual families — from the Maghreb to India, from Bukhara to Konya.
There are as many paths to God as there are breaths of the children of Adam. Sufi adage
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A spiritual geography
These paths are neither sects nor chapels. Each transmits a flavour of the same heart — sobriety for the Naqshbandis, intoxicated love for the Mevlevis, service for the Chishtis, present poverty for the Châdhilis. All lead to the same Ocean.
Sources
Page based on J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (Oxford, 1971);
Éric Geoffroy, Le soufisme (Eyrolles, 2013); Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam.
The quotations are drawn directly from the writings of each tradition.