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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…
Creative Imagination in Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest…
Early Islamic mysticism: Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, poetic and theological writings
This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical,…
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…
