Covers Sufism (tasawwuf) as the interior/mystical dimension of Islam, structured around the Islam-Iman-Ihsan three-level framework from Hadith Jibril. Covers the maqamat (stations, earned through effort) and ahwal (states, given as grace) spiritual-psychology map, the fana/baqa (ego-annihilation/subsistence) goal, major figures (Rabia al-Adawiyya, Al-Hallaj, Al-Ghazali, Rumi, Ibn Arabi), core practices (dhikr, sama/whirling, the murshid-murid teacher-student bond, the tariqa orders), foundational texts (Rumi's Masnavi, Ibn Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam, Attar's Conference of the Birds, Al-Qushayri's Risala), and Sufism's contemporary tension with Salafi/Wahhabi Islam.
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