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Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's “Great Learning of the Pure and Real” and Liu Chih's “Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm”
"Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and…
The Elixir of the Gnostics
"Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi, more commonly called Mulla Sadra (1572-1640), was one of the grand scholars of the later period of Islamic philosophy and has become one of the best known Muslim philosophers. Originally composed in Arabic, Iksir…
The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in Mullā Sadrā
"This study by Christian Jambet explores the essential merits of the philosophical system of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of the seventeenth century. The writings of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (1571-1640) bear witness to the divine revelation in…
The Niche of Lights
"Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the…
Sufism: Love & Wisdom
For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi thinkers. These essays allow the reader to understand the wisdom and history of Sufism.
