Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Way

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Produced by Irving and Elda Hartley Hartley Productions.

Complete Record: This film begins with a brief history of the dynamism of Islamic civilization with maps of its spread into Southern Europe and East. Film dominated by architecture as a means into the subject. Images of meditating Sufis; Sufi musicians; attitudes of prayer. In order to show the inward meditative state, single figures are shown in empty spaces.