The word · The heart
الطَّرِيقَة
Tariqah
A Sufi order: a lineage with a shaykh, a set litany, and a method for training students.
Also written · Tariqa · Tareeqa · Tarika · Tariqat · Turuq · Sufi order · Sufi path · Silsila · Silsilah · Naqshbandi · Qadiri · Chishti · Shadhili · Bayah
The meaning
What Tariqah means in Islam
The word means path. Well known orders include the Qadiriyyah, the Naqshbandiyyah, the Shadhiliyyah and the Chishtiyyah, each with its own wird and manners. Belonging to one has never been a requirement in Islam, and scholars differ sharply about the orders as institutions, some treating them as a school of character, others objecting to particular practices found within them. The word is not used in this sense outside Sufi circles.
Evidence · Scholars differ · The scholars read this one differently
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- TasawwufThe Islamic tradition of inner purification, called Sufism in English, and read very differently by different scholars.التَّصَوُّف
- WirdA personal daily portion of remembrance or recitation that a person keeps to.الوِرْد
- DhikrRemembrance of Allah, in set phrases and in the wider habit of not forgetting Him.الذِّكْر
- MaqamA station on the spiritual path, in the vocabulary used mainly by Sufi writers.المَقَام
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