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Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran
This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th century Qajar Iran (then known to Westerners as Persia), & how it provided a mood & attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new…
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…
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…
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…
