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Moulay Idriss - Fez - Marrakech12 DAYS - 11 NIGHTS
Sufism, or Tassawuf as it is called in Arabic, is a way of education and spiritual teaching, considered the esoteric aspect of Islam. Stoics and devotees first defused it in the path of our creator in an informal way before it was progressively structured around the 10th century. Historically, the transmission of this teaching is done in its early stages through spiritual centers earned by merit to preserve the norms of culture, sociability, and spirituality proper to Islam in an era of dislocation of the Muslim world, particularly under the Abbassides dynasty in Baghdad. These centers have known how to preserve a message of a universal spirituality that has nourished the Muslim culture and enhanced its artistic and literary expressions and social and economic advancements. Sufism has simultaneously inspired the organization and the ethical and spiritual charters of all classes harmoniously throughout the Muslim world for centuries.
In Morocco, for example, guilds and special trades have traditionally allied themselves with Sufi orders as they found ethical education a way to prosperity. The relationship that has been established between spirituality and social and human development has marked naturally the cultural and historical identity of Morocco.
These Sufi Orders of Morocco have known through time international beaming by establishing their zawiyas throughout the Islamic empire from the Farwest of Morocco to the borders of China. The case of Zawiya Shadhulia and Zawiya Tijania is an eloquent illustration. The roles of these Sufi teaching orders and civic and spiritual education while engaging in human development and mediation for peace, in a profound and creative effect, constitute Moroccan culture's unique identity.
The festival of the Sufi Culture in Fez has not only the gift of identifying a spiritual and artistic patrimony of exceptional wealth but also to open the thought on what could be the benefit of this inheritance on the heart of the Moroccan society today. Sufism can also inspire some new approaches for concrete maneuvers of peace mediation on a global level and the development of mutual dialogues between religions and cultures. This festival can contribute as well as promote and diffuse throughout the world, the message of peace, universality, and a spiritual way of life registered in the heart of Islam, particularly in our troubled world today.
This Sufi Journey in Morocco is beyond just a spiritual trip to a foreign destination, but as close as you can get for spiritual growth. Join us in the spirit of universal improvement by meeting world-renowned scholars and thinkers of different faiths and traditions. Meet with other travelers like yourself from all webs of life who are here to share and learn what self-growth is all about.
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