Persianate Sufi culture

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Islamic mystical tradition Persianate culture religious-cultural tradition

Persianate Sufi culture is the broad Islamic mystical and literary tradition that developed in Persian-speaking and culturally Persian-influenced regions, characterized by its rich poetry, metaphysics, and devotional practices.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Persianate Islam	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic mystical tradition ⓘ Persianate culture ⓘ religious-cultural tradition ⓘ
associatedWith	Sufism ⓘ
associatedWithGenre	Persian ghazal ⓘ Sufi hagiography ⓘ Sufi metaphysical treatises ⓘ masnavi (rhymed couplets) ⓘ
associatedWithInstitution	dargah ⓘ khanqah (Sufi lodge) ⓘ tekke ⓘ
associatedWithPractice	dhikr (remembrance of God) ⓘ sama (listening to music and poetry) ⓘ visitation of saints’ shrines ⓘ
characterizedBy	Sufi music and chanting ⓘ devotional practices ⓘ metaphysical speculation ⓘ mystical poetry ⓘ saint veneration ⓘ use of Persian literary symbolism ⓘ
developedIn	Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Caucasus NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Iranian plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian-speaking regions ⓘ South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCoreLanguage	Persian language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasFunction	mediation between rulers and populace ⓘ patronage of arts and literature ⓘ social cohesion ⓘ spiritual education ⓘ
hasKeyTheme	annihilation of the self (fana) ⓘ divine love ⓘ perfect human (al-insan al-kamil) ⓘ spiritual journey (suluk) ⓘ subsistence in God (baqa) ⓘ unity of being (wahdat al-wujud) ⓘ
hasMedium	Persian calligraphy ⓘ Persian poetry ⓘ Persian prose ⓘ miniature painting with Sufi themes ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Abd al-Rahman Jami NERFINISHED ⓘ Abdul-Qadir Gilani NERFINISHED ⓘ Al-Ghazali NERFINISHED ⓘ Baha al-Din Naqshband NERFINISHED ⓘ Farid al-Din Attar NERFINISHED ⓘ Hafez of Shiraz NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibn Arabi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jalal al-Din Rumi NERFINISHED ⓘ Nizamuddin Auliya NERFINISHED ⓘ Shah Nimatullah Wali NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Bektashi and Mevlevi orders in Anatolia ⓘ Chishti Sufi practices in South Asia ⓘ Indo-Persian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Mughal court culture ⓘ Naqshbandi Sufi networks NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman Sufi culture ⓘ
influencedBy	Hadith literature ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Neoplatonic philosophy ⓘ Quranic exegesis ⓘ earlier Arabic Sufism ⓘ pre-Islamic Iranian cultural motifs ⓘ
linkedToDynasty	Mughal Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Safavid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Timurid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
religiousContext	Islam ⓘ
timePeriod	early modern Islamic period ⓘ medieval Islamic period ⓘ
usesSymbol	beloved as symbol of God ⓘ journey and desert as spiritual path metaphors ⓘ tavern as symbol of spiritual intoxication ⓘ wine as metaphor for divine love ⓘ

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Akbariyya → regionOfInfluence → Persianate Sufi culture ⓘ

Persianate world → hasKeyConcept → Persianate Sufi culture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Persianate Islam