Bhakti & Sufi Movements Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What poet-saint wrote the Ramcharitmanas, retelling the Ramayana in a regional language?

Question 2

What did the Bhakti movement stress as the main path to reach God?

Question 3

What Chishti saint completed the main line of succession after Nizamuddin Auliya?

Question 4

What overall legacy did South Indian Bhakti saints leave for the rest of India?

Question 5

What overall theme links the Bhakti and Sufi movements covered across this entire quiz?

Question 6

What philosophy, meaning "inconceivable difference and non-difference," is linked to Chaitanya?

Question 7

What Maratha king was reportedly deeply moved by Tukaram's own devotional teaching?

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About Bhakti & Sufi Movements

From roughly the seventh century onward, two great waves of personal, devotional faith swept across India. One, the Bhakti movement, began among Tamil poet-saints and spread north over the centuries. The other, Sufism, arrived with Islam and grew into a deeply Indian mystical tradition of its own. This quiz covers both in real depth.

It starts with the Bhakti movement's South Indian roots, the Shaivite Nayanars and Vaishnavite Alvars, and the great Vedanta philosophers, Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, and Madhva, who gave these devotional traditions their philosophical backbone. It then turns north, to Ramananda, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Ravidas, Meera Bai, Surdas, and Tulsidas, and further east and west, to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Bengal and the Varkari saints of Maharashtra, Jnaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath, and Tukaram.

The quiz then covers Sufism with the same close attention: its core ideas of pir, murid, and khanqah, and its four major orders in India, the Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri, and Naqshbandi silsilas. It follows the great Chishti line from Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer through Nizamuddin Auliya at Delhi, and closes with Akbar's own religious experiments, the Ibadat Khana and Din-i-Ilahi, and the lasting mark both movements left on Indian language, music, and art.