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Ibn 'Arabi: heir to the prophets
"Muhyi ad-Din Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born mystic and one of the most prolific writers in Islamic history. He made major contributions to the fields of Qur'an commentary, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, cosmology, and…
The Heritage of Sufism
v. 3: Interest in Sufism in the West has increased through the magic of the poetry of Rumi and other Persian mystics. This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating…
Faith an Practice of Islam: three thirteenth century Sufi texts
As stated in the introduction, two of the three texts translated in this book focus on the contents of Islamic faith, while the third concentrates on the details of practice--that is, the works that Muslims should perform in order to observe the…
The Garden of Truth: the Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's mystical tradition
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the…
The philosophy of illumination: Ḥikmat al-ishrāq : a new critical edition of the text of Ḥikmat al-ishrāq
Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical…