{"id":805,"date":"2026-10-13T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/sufism-the-heart-of-islam\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:59:47","slug":"sufism-the-heart-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/sufism-the-heart-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufism: The Heart of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book, which made a significant impact when it was first published, remains one of the finest and most comprehensive introductions to Sufism, the spiritual dimension of Islam. Its author, the leader of one of the most important Sufi orders in the Maghreb, has successfully brought the tradition into the modern world, making universal brotherhood and interfaith dialogue the central pillars of his message. Here, he explores Sufism in both its theoretical and ritual dimensions, including the relationship between spiritual master and disciple.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new preface by Christian Delorme highlights the decisive contribution this now-classic work has made to the discovery in France of \u201canother Islam\u201d, rooted in love and tolerance.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book, which made a significant impact when it was first published, remains one of the finest and most comprehensive introductions to Sufism, the spiritual dimension of Islam. Its author, the leader of one of the most important Sufi orders in the Maghreb, has successfully brought the tradition into the modern world, making universal brotherhood and interfaith dialogue the central pillars of his message. Here, he explores Sufism in both its theoretical and ritual dimensions, including the relationship between spiritual master and disciple. The new preface by Christian Delorme highlights the decisive contribution this now-classic work has made to the discovery in France of \u201canother Islam\u201d, rooted in love and tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}