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Both Islam and Christanity have mystical traditions!
Google mysticism plus islam or christanity
Sorry - yes both can and do practise forms of mysticism. It would have taken less time to google it than post this question
Prayer is an aspect of mysticism. Mysticism should be connected intrinsically with theology. One without the other produces no results.
From the Orthodox Christian perspective, the goal of the human person is theosis: becoming like God by His Grace and sharing in His love to the point of union. Christ God became man so that humans may become like God. This is our soteriology and our understanding of the fullness of the Incarnation of Christ. This is the experience true mystics (Orthodox perspective) strive for. We have a long standing tradition of contemplative prayer that dates back to the time of the Apostles in its origin, and is well documented by the 4th century by the Christian monks of the Egyptian and Syrian deserts. I suggest looking up people like St. Anthony of Egypt, St. Pacomios, St. Issac of Nineveh, St. John Climacus and St. Gregory Palamas. For more intense reading look up anything written on Athonite spirituality, which is the tradition of the monks of Mt. Athos.
If you are more familiar with Western Christian traditions I suggest John of the Cross, a Catholic saint, but an individual who was undoubtedly in touch with God mystically.
In terms of Islam, I would suggest looking at Sufism. I don't know much about Islamic mysticism, but I do remember one author, Al-Ghazali. I found his "Al-Munqidh min Al-dalal" a most interesting work that parallels several aspects and works of the Christian tradition surprisingly. One in particular was "The Way of a Pilgrim," which was written by an anonymous Russian peasant mystic in the 19th century.
I hope this is helpful.
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Very Sneaky.
Sufism is actually a very beautiful mystical movement. Peace loving, deep spirituality, love of God with peace between all human beings as the result rather than going out and murdering in the name of Allah as the fundamentalist Islamists do.
Sufis understand that murdering in the name of Allah is nothing more than murder and there are no rewards for it from Allah. Sufism is very peaceful and loving, they are too busy learning deep spirituality to hate others - in other words Sufis are everything that fundamentalist Islam is not, which is why Sufism is hated so much by them.
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