Sufi orders legitimize their pedagogy through a chain of spiritual transmission

Evidence

The tariqa apparatus crystallized across the twelfth-and-thirteenth-century medieval Islamic civilizational period. The operational substance is the silsila (chain of spiritual transmission) — an isnād-analogous framework running from the Prophet, through the Sahaba and subsequent generations of Sufi masters, to the contemporary shaykh — that grounds the operational legitimacy of tariqa pedagogy. — , The Rod and the Child, 3596

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the silsila mechanism, paralleling the isnād in hadith transmission.
• XREF: connects to: Landscape ‘raising’ a person blends literal nurture with spiritual teaching — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 82