XIX. Yüzyılda İdrîsiyye Tarikatının Selefî Tasavvuf’a Evrilen Kimliği ve Islahatçı Yönü
Identity of Idrisiyya Sufı Order Evolving into Salafî Sufism and Its Reformist Aspect in The 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: In the nineteenth century Muslims gradually regressed in science, culture and art, and madrasahs and lodges began to lose their dynamism. On the other hand, some negative developments in the political and social field in the Middle East have led to conflict and unrest among Muslim societies. The increasing involvement of the West in the Islamic World in the nineteenth century further deepened the existing plight. In this process, more than one innovative revival movement with a religious and mystical identity emerged in order to save the Islamic society from this situation. One of these revival movements is Idrîsiyya Sufi Order founded by Ahmad b. Idris al-Fâsî (d. 1253/1837). As a charismatic religious figure, Ahmad b. İdris was convinced that the re-emergence of the Islamic community would be possible with a movement based on a mystical Islamic piety, devoted to the Qur’an and Sunnah, away from innovations and avoiding social conflicts. For this purpose, while he formed the structure of the sufi order he founded according to the traditional Sunni Sufi understanding, he shaped his teachings and practices in a line more close to Salafi Sufism. In this article, the reason for the evolution of the Sunni mystical infrastructure of the Idrisiyya Sufi order to Salafi Sufism and as a reformist-revivalist movement the mission of notification was examined.

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