Dimensions and purposes of devotional practice when the Sufis of Islam

Abstract

Sufism emerged as a result of multiple factors in Islamic civilization, and it was distinguished in its early beginnings by a contemplative spiritual philosophy, then it moved after that to behavioral experiments taking individual and collective methods and struggles in moral education, which later paved the way for the emergence of Sufi orders that multiplied in devotional practices according to a hierarchy in their formation. Spiritual, starting with the sheikh, and it has multiplied and branched out in the Islamic world, leaving veins, remembrances and followers