Groups of disciples would organize into brotherhoods around a charismatic leader, around whom would also arise a group of buildings called a zaouia.
Groups of disciples would organize into brotherhoods around a charismatic leader, around whom would also arise a group of buildings called a zaouia. Taking its name from the wool used for cheap clothes by early adherents, it had a verbal lineage of instruction to disciple, from masters usually referred to as sheikhs, a line said to continue back to the Prophet. For ten points, name this focus on the spirit of religion, a side of Islam in search of the mystic.
Groups of disciples would organize into brotherhoods around a charismatic leader, around whom would also arise a group of buildings called a zaouia.
Sufism