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A/Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh The DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES offers the Honours course - REL4091S EXPLORATION IN ISLAM A/Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh This course explores mystical interpretations and practices of Islam also known as Sufism, as a central historical and contemporary expression of Muslim spirituality and religious life. The course will involve readings of historical texts on Sufism (in translation) as well as explorations of Sufi aesthetics. Topics covered in these texts include understandings of the Sufi path, cosmology, the nature of human beings and God, interpersonal relationships and ethics, rituals and meditative techniques, music and poetry, and social implications of the Sufi path.