the movement associated with islamic mysticism is called what
More than 35 years later his student, A.J. Arberry, in his brief introduction to the subject, Sufism (1950), similarly states that Sufism is the name given to the mysticism of Islam and the mystical movement of an uncompromising Monotheism.ufism is analogous in some senses to a pan-Islamic version of the Catholic Jesuit or Opus Dei movements with features of various monastic orders and mendicant friars such as St Francis of Assisi. Their work includes, proselytism, teaching, purity of the faith and political work as well as mysticism and introspection.