Political Aspects of Human Perfection in Sufism

Abstract

     Power is often seen as a politicallly-oriented multi-strategy realm of limitless and timeless dominance. The concern of this paper, therefore, is the political aspects of humans drawing on Sufist theologies and exegeses. Having based their epistemological and phenomenological interpretations on man-power relationship, Sufists has considered human perfection as the ultimate aim behind the hunt for absolute truth. Sufist traditions have long maintained a classic stance on socio-historicist conceptualizations of men as perfect creatures, ones that are defiant of death and mortality. Sufist traditions, thus, have originated tenets on historically divergent beliefs, thoughts, controversies, and utopias. The present paper, thereafter, unfolds the hidden as well as the open stances of human perfection as mirrored in political realm.