Author: Arthur F. Buehler
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: sufi, shaykh, studies, comparative, religion, mediating, rise, heirs, prophet, indian, naqshbandiyya
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1570032017
ISBN-13: 9781570032011
Tracing the transformation of a mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya, the author explores the development of personal authority in Islamic society. Four sources are isolated: lineage; spiritual travelling; status as Prophetic exemplar; and transmission of religious knowledge.
Author: J. T. P. de Bruijn
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: persian, sufi, routledge, series, poems, mystical, poetry, introduction, classical
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1997-04-18
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0700706747
ISBN-13: 9780700706747
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Author: J. T. P. de Bruijn
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: persian, sufi, routledge, series, poems, mystical, poetry, introduction, classical
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1997-04-18
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0700703128
ISBN-13: 9780700703128
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Author: Bill Whitehouse
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: inspirations, sufi
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2009-08-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1448669928
ISBN-13: 9781448669929
The material contained within ’Sufi Inspirations’ -- and which is given expression through the different chapters of this book -- constitutes, both individually as well as collectively, a Sufi perspective. However, one does not have to be on the Sufi path or inclined to that path in order to engage the material in this book. Anyone with an interest in spirituality and mysticism will find, God willing, an abundance of themes within the boundaries of this work which are able to form the seeds of contemplative reflection for any faith background.
Author: Idries Shah
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: compass, sufi, way
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140192522
ISBN-13: 9780140192520
A selection of excerpts from Sufi masters clarifying the philosophy of Sufism.
Author: Bill Whitehouse
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: reflections, sufi
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1448603102
ISBN-13: 9781448603107
The fifty-two chapters (not counting five appendices) which make up the main body of this book encompass lectures, articles, and letters/e-mails written over a period of about eleven years (from about 1998 through 2009). The material covers a variety of thematic topics both within Islam, in general, as well as with respect to its mystical dimension of tasawwuf - known in the West as ’the Sufi path’ or ’sufism’ - in particular. Taken collectively, the chapters and appendices provide a very good introduction to both the Sufi path and Islam.
Author: M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Publisher: The Fellowship Press
Keywords: life, way, sufi, death
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0914390376
ISBN-13: 9780914390374
This book uncovers the mystery of death, explaining exactly what does happen when a person dies where his soul goes, and what kind of form it will take after the body expires. M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) explains what determines the time of death, what the angel of death is; how one can escape from hell and rebirth, what happens when a body is cremated and when a person has donated organs and what will literally happen from the moment of death to the questioning in the grave.Most importantly, M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral) explains how to live our daily lives understanding that death is alw
