SUFISM AND BHAKTI MOVEMENT IN INDIA

INTRODUCTION

     India is famous for giving birth of various religions, creeds and faiths. The Sufism and Bhakti movements are two mystic orders of 

Islam and Hinduism respectively. Both orders were very popular in India during medieval age. Sufism is the name given to mysticism in Islam. The term Sufi derived from Arabic word ‘’Suf’’ which means wool. The bhakti movement was another glorious religious movement in the history of India. It was based on devotion to God. Devotion means bhakti through which one can realize God. The Sufis and bhakti saints are devoted themselves to the pleasure of God. The both Sufis and bhakti sages are trying to maintain the essence of their religion.The present work titled as “A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SUFISM AND BHAKTI MOVEMENT IN INDIA” and intends to give a detailed and comparative study on the topic. There have been similarities and differences between the Sufis and bhakti saints and many misconceptions are circulated among the common people. Therefore

the researcher is intending to revise such misconceptions and misunderstandings of the people. 

REASEARCH METHODOLOGY

Here, I am doing a comparative study and the research arranged into four chapters. First two chapters are divided into three sub chapters and third chapter is divided into sixth sub 

chapters. The first chapter is exhaustively elaborated about what is Sufism? History and emergence of Sufism in Indian subcontinent 

while the second chapter is comprehensively interpreted about bhakti movement: context and overview. The third chapter is frankly 

clarified the comparison between Sufism and bhakti movement. The last chapter is conclusion.

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PREVIOUS STUDIES

         There have been many works relating to Sufism and bhakti movement. although there have been many studies on these two movements, none of them have been compared. Moreover mostly all works inaccurately interpreted the both movements, essentially on Sufism. I truly hope that it will 

be a great progress and can find out the factual points about these movements.

IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH

The Sufism and bhakti movement had been an area of specialization of research for long years. But many of them try to manipulate the Sufism, and some time they depicted Sufism as by￾products of bhakti movement and they traced the origin of Islamic mysticism to Hinduism .here through this research I am intending to reconstruct such manipulated theoretical frame works of Sufism and bhakti movement.

I shared here my thesis's abstraction. Further findings will be uploaded soon. Stay tuned.