Junayd’s Relationships Within and Outside the Sufi Community
摘要
In Chap. 2 , I discussed some pillars of Junayd’s relationships with his masters and contemporaries, and the way he interacted or believed to have interacted with the inquisition of the Sufis. In Chap. 3 , I examined the broader context within which the Sufi community during third/ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad developed. The current chapter elaborates on Junayd’s network of relationships within and outside the Sufi community. Junayd was a leading master who strove to create a shared pious identity and a common ethical basis that united his contemporary Sufis regardless of their individual needs. This characteristic lies at the basis of the way he chose to conduct and maintain his relationships.