A debate about the orthodoxy of Sufism within Islam,
the legality of the Sufi custom of asking for the intercession of the
saints,
and so on. Ibn Taymiyya saw the Sufis as Buddhist-influenced
"new agers" aspiring to godhood; ibn 'Ata Allah defended them
as orthodox Muslims more interested in the spirit than the letter.
--- Sunnah.Org
A debate about the orthodoxy of Sufism within Islam,
the legality of the Sufi custom of asking for the intercession of the
saints,
and so on. Ibn Taymiyya saw the Sufis as Buddhist-influenced
"new agers" aspiring to godhood; ibn 'Ata Allah defended them
as orthodox Muslims more interested in the spirit than the letter.
--- Sunnah.Org
Considered by some to be patterned on the life of the Buddha; the name Ioasaph resembles the Persian spelling of Bodhisattva. Authorship disp
uted. Woodward and Mattingly translation, 1914. --- OMACL