One of the most advanced and also the highly debatable branch of Islamic sciences, the tasawwuf or Sufism, had been used, or misused, to justify the teachings, thoughts and practices opposed to the Quran and Sunnah, by some of the revered Sufis not only in the later periods of Islamic history but even by some of the earlier great scholars of the subject also. Now one of the leading Islamic scholars of India examines and explains it in this provocative and necessary work. The authoritative scholars of Islam in the modern world named Dr. Obaidullah Fahad one of the most important writers of the twenty-first century India. A Muslim intellectual and prolific author, he has won global repute for his reflections on Islam and the contemporary Islamic movements in both the traditional and modern circles. In Islamic critique of Sufism he evaluates Rabia al-a dawiyya, Ali Hujwiri and Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi and analyses their mystical thoughts in the paradigm provided by the Quran.

Contents: I. Rabia’h al-Adawiyya: 1. Concept of love in Sufism. 2. Sufistic Ishq and the quranic Hubb. II. Hujwiri: 3. Kashf al-Mahjub. 4. An exemplary rendering of the Kashf Al-Mahjub in Urdu. III. Sirhindi: 5. Defining relations between Walayah and Nubuwah. Notes. Index.