Word: sufism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consists of one small office in back of Emerson Hall, one fulltime secretary, and its director, Sorokin. Its endowment funds are spent mostly for sociology experts who have helped collect material ranging from the biographies of 4,600 Christian saints to data on the ancient techniques of Yoga and Sufism (a system of a Mohammedan mysticism). In addition experiments have been made with subjects ranging from Harvard and Radcliffe students to patients and nurses at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital...
...Sufism, loosely parallel to the monastic movement in Christen dom, provided the driving power of internal and external missionary work...
...sticklers for the letter of the law, the sufis met the un believer as near as they could to his own doctrinal ground. No doubt Islam suffered some theological dilution in this process, but its tribes increased wonderfully. Followers of sufism converted the animist Berbers of North Africa, and later the Turks, who broke out of Asia conquering the Arabs and great Constantinople as well. Sufism, carried largely by Moslem merchants, converted Sumatra, Java, Malaya, all without any military help from the centers of Islam...