quietism

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The top theologians of the quietist movement - as opposed to Islam's politisation - call Khamenei's claim to be God's man on Earth an aberration.

To the quietists, IS raises the spectre of Saudi history repeating, where the Al-Sauds defeated Wahhabi tribesmen in the 1920s and transformed Wahhabism from a movement that forcefully imposed Puritanism and an austere interpretation of Islam, into a socially conservative pillar of support for the regime.

After the US invasion of 2003, Sistani, a member of the "quietist" school of Shia Islam, played a key role in shaping post-Saddam Iraq and its constitution by winning the ear of the Americans who understood his influence.

Of the various Ja'fari religious schools, that of the quietists led by Najaf-based Grand Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani is the most moderate and its influences are spreading in the GME.

Teresa's writings on Contemplative Prayer state that those who presumptuously thrust themselves into mystical or passive prayer remain there like "Dolts," like the Quietists (another heresy).

Upham's discovery of French thinkers often classified together as Quietists was not unprecedented among Protestants, and his book succeeded in part because it belonged to an ecumenical devotional tradition.

I found the story of the evolution toward peacebuilding of German Quietists and English Quakers starting in the 17th century very interesting.

He has been co-opted, for different reasons, by evangelical quietists in the eighteenth century, evangelical liberals in the nineteenth, and the American Christian right in the twentieth.

There are deep roots for the philosophy of the Ja'fari quietists in the Arab world.