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The Influence of Sufi Poetry on Western Thought
As regards the influence of Sufi poetry on Western thought it may be noted that many of the European mystics wrote as the Sufi poets had written before them, particularly Thomas Aquinas, Exkhart and Dante. The greatest names in the realm of Mysticism arejhose of Johann Tauler and Heinrich Suso, who were the pioneers of the early mystic movement, ”the Minnesinger of Gottesminne”. Their writings were intensely practical and touched on all sides the deeper problems
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of moral and spiritual life, and made the mystic movement in its later manifestations so important a forerunner of the Reformation. There was rapturous language both with Eastern and Western mystics. In the 19th century Hegel was loud in the praise of Jalaluddin Rumi. You find the same influence in Didactic Literature, Ibsen’s ”Caesar and Galilean”.