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RELI/ASIA 181-602 Midterm Concept Map, You can definitely change/add/…

- - - - Safavids: closest to a theocracy, they emphasized religion much more than other empires, in part due to the fact that the empire began as just a family of Sufi masters.
    - - Lower classes shouldn't be ignored. Good rulers should involve them and give lower classes donations/ handouts to maintain peace and please god.
      - Treatment of each class with respect and kindness
- - - - Algeria
        
        Morocco
      - Western Sahara and the Sudan
    - - Iran
      - Indonesia
      - Mughal India
      - Ottoman lands
        
        Egypt (especially Cairo)
        
        the Balkans
        
        Anatolia
  - - - Mystical form of Islam (Arabic word is Tasawwuf) - focuses on asceticism and bringing one closer to God via various forms of worship (can be music, poetry, art, etc.)
    - - Sufi center (place where highest level of Sufi education takes place). Intended as a place where Sufi rituals are to be performed and later publicized. Transcended race, class, and ethnicity as an area of congregation
    - - A school/order of Sufism. Initially there was a difference between "rational" Sufism and "drunk" Sufism and this later expanded into different orders of Sufism (like Naqshbandiyya, Bektashiyya, etc.)
    - - Sufi conception of the ego - Sufis believed that humans once had a spiritual, pure connection with God but this was later severed once humans accepted their sinful bodies / worldly desires. Nafs directly means the "self-ego" of a person, what leads people off the spiritual path with God
    - - The primary and secondary institutions at which students receive a Sufi education. Rational sciences are taught in the Maktab (like Math, law, Sharia) alongside Inner sciences (psychology, meditation). The Madrasa gives scholastic theological courses, metaphysical education, and more liberal arts education
  - - - Bektashis
      - Naqshbandiyya
        
        Founded in Central Asia
        
        Most influential and well-organized in India
      - Shadhiliyya
        
        Morocco, the Maghrib
      - The Chishti
        
        Development of musical forms
        
        Khayal; Qawwali
        
        South Asia
        
        Introduced by Khwaja Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti
- - - - Egypt
      - Yemen
      - North Africa
      - Anato
    - - India
        
        Bengal
        
        Delhi
    - - Iran
      - North Africa
      - Syria
      - Iraq