Sociability of Mystic Ethics

This article takes a glance at mystical literature and doctrines of Muslim mystics in earlier centuries with a brief survey of their social concerns and whether mystical ethics is simply an individual and indifferent ethics with no interest in social life or it is concerned about it and shows interest in social institutions. In addition to explaining the concept of social ethics and listing its various meanings, this article attempts to discuss briefly what is to be found in mystical literature as warning doctrines and elements toward entering social networks. It also considers encouraging elements in joining such networks, focusing on the social role the Islamic mystics have played in the course of history. Through analysis of the mystic and Sufi doctrines the author attempts to give an account of relation between mystic ethics and sociability of mystics and thus their concerns about society.