As a result of contacts between Europeans and Arab-Persian culture the influence of Sufism spread beyond the Islamic world. Traces of the greater or lesser influence of the Sufi world outlook tradition are found in the historical continuity from the creativity of medieval troubadours, through the activity of the medieval philosopher St. Francis of Assisi and the ideologist of German Reformation Martin Luther, to the sophiology – Russian religious philosophy and poetry of Russian Symbolism. Sufi tradition in contemporary Russian philosophy is presented by the concept of "Ecosophy of the Living knowledge" of Kim Shilin. Regarding Ukraine it was noted that the term "Ukrainian Sufism" is more used in the sense of its territorial dissemination and not of the philosophical content.
