The role of sultans, people and merchants in financing the expenses of the monasteries of the Sufi orders of in the Indian subcontinent and Iran in the 7th-9th centuries AH. ( Case Study Chishtiyyah, Suhravardiyyah, Kazeroniyyah and Kobraviyyah

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Phd Student of History Of Islamoc Iran, University of Lorestan.

2 Professor of History Department, Lorestan University

3 Professor of History Department, university of Lirestan

4 Associate Professor of History, Department , University of Lorestan

10.22034/jiiph.2023.57242.2445

Abstract

Sufi sects such as Chishtiyya, Suhravardiyya, Kazeroniyya and Kobraviyya, which gathered many followers and established their monasteries in many parts of Iran and India in the 7th-9th centuries AH. They are considered the most important known Sufism movements in the India and Iran. The khanqahs of the mentioned tariqas were the living places of their dignitaries, Chiefs and elders and many disciples were always with them. People, also, visited these Khanqahs daily to resolve their spiritual and material needs. The spiritual life of Sufis (from top to bottom) has had two dimensions, spiritual and material. Contrary to popular belief, Sufi life was not based on absolute asceticism and Sufis had to financed their daily material needs. By a descriptive- analytical method, this Study seek to answer this question how the financial expenses of the Sufi Khanqahs of the mentioned tariqas in the subcontinent of India and Iran were financed. It seems that the major part of the expenses of the Khanqahs of the Sufi orders of Chishtiyya, Suhravardiyya, Kazeroniyya and Kobraviyya were provided by means of goods and cash donations received from the sultans of the subcontinent of India and Iran, daily gifts (=Fotuh) from the common people (both rich and poor), and large payments from merchants. In this sense, there have been many commonalities between these Tariqas.

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Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History

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Available Online from 06 December 2023

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  • Receive Date: 23 June 2023
  • Revise Date: 01 October 2023
  • Accept Date: 06 December 2023

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