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The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
18 teachers
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Muhammad
Tawhid - oneness of God and submission of the self
c. 570-632 CE
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
Pure disinterested divine love
c.714-801
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī (Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī)
Self-annihilation in God
c.804-874
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Junayd of Baghdad
Return-to-source (fana/baqa)
c.830-910
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Mansur al-Hallaj
Annihilation into divine identity
c.858-922
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Polishing the heart-mirror
1058-1111
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (Gilani)
Graded heart-purification path
1077-1166
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Seven valleys of the soul
c.1145-c.1221
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Najm al-Dīn Kubrā
Inner light-stage diagnostics
1145-1221
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī
Illuminationist light hierarchy
1154-1191
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī
Imaginal world & unity of being
1165-1240
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Love as transformative engine
1207-1273
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Maḥmūd Shabistarī
Mirror-of-being symbolism
1288-1340
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī)
Substantial motion of the soul and the primacy of existence
c.1571-1640
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sound / vibration mysticism
1882-1927
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Kahlil Gibran
The divinity latent within the self
1883-1931
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Henry Corbin
Mundus imaginalis articulated
1903-1978
Sufism (Islamic Mysticism)
Idries Shah
Teaching-story conditioning bypass
1924-1996