The Forgotten Father of Sufism: Why All Mystical Paths Lead Back to Imam Ali
If you walk into a Sufi lodge in Istanbul, a zāwiya in Fez, or a dargāh in Delhi, and ask the master (shaykh) to trace his spiritual lineage, you will hear a chain of names reaching back through the centuries. Eventually, almost invariably, that chain will end with the same figure: Imam Ali ibn Abi […]