The phenomenological picture of the world in Sufism and the idea of tolerance

Abstract

In this article the authors examine the phenomenology of Sufism as one of the indicators of religious identity on the basis of the Islamic view of the world. The authors reveal phenomenological character of Sufi worldview. One of the features of the phenomenological picture of the world of Sufism is the consideration of the world as a manifestation of the sacred. Sacred in Sufi worldview is opposed to everyday, ordinary. Holy is described in the Sufi worldview in metaphorical and allegorical form.

The authors think that the Sufi phenomenology is a kind of synthesis of several factors - the result of the implementation and transformation of the basic concepts and images of Islam and the results of the impact that pagan ideas of the peoples of pre-Islamic period had on Islam. The manifestation of such a tolerance to the images, symbols of cultural objects of other people most fully manifested in the phenomenology of Sufism.