Interesting, brief overview — thanks for sharing it.

It seems to me that the Fiqh/Sufism dialectic in Islam is mirrored in other religious traditions as well.

Christianity, for example, has some well-known mystics and contemplatives, as well as its strict authoritarian personages and traditions.

My sense is that Buddhism and Hinduism do as well.

In fact, one might argue that many religions were in fact founded by mystics who wandered the land and meditated but later were taken over and shaped by men (it's nearly always men) more interested in political control than spiritual one-ness with the Divine.

Even outside religion, one finds that dichotomy between the personalities attracted to power and control versus those more interested in individual creativity, truth and beauty. (Graduate school comes to mind here...)