The most famous example was Akbar the great of India. There is also allaudin Rumi more recent. As you say sufism is known as tolerant.
Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:20 AM Subject: Non-fundamentalist Muslims > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ray Evans Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Only in the ideology of the fundamentalist Christian and Moslem sects > >does this all or nothing attitude make dialogue a sin. I would like to > >hear a Moslem speak on the Universality of all faith and the value of > >each culture in the great quilt of the Creator's humanity. > > I have been trying to remember the name, and I'll take a stab at it: > the Amihddayyah(?) sect of Islam, one of whose spokesmen in North > America was listed as an assassination victim in that list of terrorist > crimes that went by here a week or so ago, has a reputation for > tolerance of other faiths. I have never looked deeply into it, but > it is my understanding that there are many of them in the west, > as they get a hard time at home from their fundamentalist countrymen. > I presume that would have been the reason behind the assassination, > for example. Islam is not a monolithic entity, as I'm sure you know. > You can find some moslems who are somewhat the equivalent of unitarians, > or christian scientists, or presbytarians, etc., not just the hard > line fundies. They just don't seem to get a lot of press. And there > are quite a lot of sufis, whose mystic practices are reminiscent of > those of zen or yoga, and who I seem to recall were described by > one western commentator as "extraordinarily sane", or some similar > phrase. Why we don't hear more of their flavour of Islam, I don't > know. > -Pete Vincent > >
