The Inner Path
المَدَارِس

The great metaphysical schools

Chapter 8 · al-madāris

They are not sects — they are savours.

Chapter in preparation — the sections below will be enriched progressively. Each key concept will become a developed sub-page.

Key concepts

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Akbarian — Ibn ʿArabī
Ishrāqī — Suhrawardī
Khorasanian — Bisṭāmī, Junayd
Of Konya — Rūmī
Of Shiraz — Mullā Ṣadrā
Traditionalist — Guénon, Schuon, Nasr

Introduction to the chapter

Coming — a presentation of the chapter, the principal issues, the articulations with the other sections.

Major authors on this question

Coming — a list of the masters who marked this chapter, with links to their entries in Encounter.

To go further

Coming — bibliography, recommended translations, resources, scholarly articles.

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