Re: Development of Islamic Law(Fiqh) and Spirtualty(Tasawuuf)
maybe the motivation was the same, but i think tasawwuf is a very specific thing quite different from spirituality in general. likewise fiqh is very different from court rulings given at the outset of Islam, infact I believe both terms came in use much later. so i dont think at any point were tasawwuf and fiqh truly joined together for those who really developed these concepts. while they may have justified their efforts after the fact by tracing them to the same sources, they were as far as I know mostly at the opposite ends of the Islamic spectrum, with the famous exception being Ghazali.