The Sufis believed
A. that they, and not the Umayyads, were the legitimate rulers of the Islamic world.
B. that the leadership of the Islamic world had to pass through the line of Ali.
C. in reconciling the spiritual and rational worlds.
D. in a strictly logical and rational definition of the divine.
E. in an emotional and mystical union with Allah.
Answer: E
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