The impact of Sufism on Iraqi society in the Abbasid era

Abstract

The Abbasid era is considered an era that linked ancient science with the medieval renaissance. It preserved the heritage and literature of art. This study is an attempt to identify the impact of Sufism on Iraqi society in the Abbasid era, and to demonstrate the influence and religious motivation for Sufism and to know its causes on Iraqi society in the Abbasid era.

  The Sufism movement spread in the Islamic world in the third century AH as individual tendencies calling for asceticism and intense worship. Then it developed until it became an Islamic phenomenon and an important starting point for Islam. Since its inception, it has given birth to personalities who have influenced societies and left clear imprints on the religious heritage, after they spread to the east of the earth. And its West.

   Sufism and isolationism appeared in the Umayyad era and grew and developed in the first Abbasid era. They did not find opposition from the Umayyads, and when the Abbasid state came and the torrent of atheism and heresy emerged from movements and currents that appeared in this era, they called for permissibility, permissibility, and the disclosure of forbidden matters in the values and principles of Islam and the introduction of heresies. And the disclosure of intellectual disputes that had long been built on foundations, beliefs and philosophies with ancient visions, which they had been influenced by and worshiped. This made the Abbasid caliphs in their first era find in the Mu’tazilites a drawn sword over such activities of Islam and the Arab Sultan. On the basis of that, they launched a ferocious war which they led directly and indirectly, so they unleashed On their mind.

   The phenomenon of asceticism spread in Abbasid society in light of the spread of a trend that contradicts it, which is immorality and entertainment, as extremism and extremism in a certain aspect are matched by extremism and extremism in a completely opposite aspect