(Sufi) Culture and Literature

Program Summary

Today, academic studies and research are quickly distancing from the understanding of being ‘profession-focused.’

Many disciplines are entering into a deeper relation with topics of religious studies and methodology.

The area of tasawwuf encompasses a large extent of interest ranging from fundamental Islamic studies to literature and philosophy, history and sociology, psychology, music and architecture, other area studies and art, and from political philosophy to popular culture.

As the result of a thousand years of Muslim civilizations, Sufi culture spread into the matter of everyday life.

Its capacity to add more to our world of culture and thought is only possible through the development of new programs and institutional activities.

The content of the MA program of Sufi Culture and Literature has been structured in a holistic manner by starting with the doctrine of tasawwuf considered alongside the history and literature of tasawwuf within the context of introductory Islamic studies, and related to the other areas of various social sciences and humanities through the main topics of Islamic thought and history of civilizations.