| Confused About Sufi Poetry? (745 words) |
 | In this sense, such a view of Sufi poetry as the absolute opposite of the modern is very much an abstraction and mystification of the reality of Sufi poetry, and could result in precisely further antagonism and repression from an advanced and adult West. |
| But for the Sufi poets, who lived in a Persia ravaged by religious extremism, feudal dictatorships and the extraordinarily brutal Mongolian invasion, there existed a crucial need to oppose these calamities and horrors through the medium of poetry and the powers of language and imagination. |
| As such, Sufi poetry can be seen as a political struggle against the peoples belligerent and tyrannical rulers, as well as an equally politicised artistic movement against the ignorance and dogmatic perceptions common among most Persians and Muslims during the poets lives. |
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