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The paper is a critical study of some relatively recent Western
approaches to tasawwuf. These so-called post-structuralist approaches,
the deconstructionist being chief among them, seem to extend the
earlier orientalist attempts, as that of Henry Corbin, Reynolds
Nicholson or Pervez Morevidge, of philosophizing tasawwuf, thus
turning it into one among various other ‗isms‘ conveniently available
to the Western critical understanding. Reviewing Ian Almond‘s
Deconstruction and Sufism and The New Orientalists, the paper argues
that in their preoccupation with tracing apparent affinities between the
deconstructive/ post-structuralist and the Sufi positions on the socalled ‗metaphysics of presence‘, what such studies often overlook is
the epistemological difference between these two discourses. It
remains a matter of some detailed discussion, which the paper does
propose to attempt, to see that these recent critical approaches in the
West, despite their avowed project of announcing the demise of
philosophy, still somehow remain essentially complicit with the
tradition of thought they look to dismantle.
Dr. Iftikhar Shafi. (2011) Philosophizing Tasawwuf: The Postmodern Cult of Sufism, Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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