Mysticism Books
Suluk Press, Omega Publications Root Speaks to Bud: Fulfilling the Purpose of
Book SynopsisThe process of discovering one''s unique purpose unfolds step by step through levels of intelligence and intuition, developing trust and faith in one''s own inner realization and guidance. Wish and will, desire and self-discipline assist in planning and sustaining the effort to serve and satisfy this purpose. A personal awakening in inner truth, happiness and peace comes with the knowledge that fulfilling one''s individual purpose serves to fulfil the purpose of the whole of Creation.
£20.69
Suluk Press, Omega Publications The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Vol. 1
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£31.19
Suluk Press, Omega Publications Complete Works of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat
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£49.59
Suluk Press, Omega Publications The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Vol. 4
Book SynopsisThe fundamental principles of Sufi healing and health, with updates for a modern audience.This volume contains Hazrat Inayat Khan's most significant teachings on the health and healing of the physical body and the mind. Inayat Khan tells us that the purification of the body leads to the purification of the breath, the purification of the breath leads to the purification of the mind, and the purification of the mind leads to the purification of the heart. This volume discusses all four stages, with a primary focus on the purification of the mind. There are also extensive lectures on the subjects of health and healing, lectures that anticipate the findings of contemporary mind-body medicine. Together, the collected teachings in this volume provide a full picture of the fundamental principles of Sufi healing.
£26.34
Suluk Press, Omega Publications Social Gathekas: Sufi Wisdom on Social Harmony &
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£26.34
Suluk Press, Omega Publications Immortality: A Traveler's Guide
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£22.09
Transcript Verlag The Discovery of Anxiousness: Philosophy and
Book SynopsisAre anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term ?saudade? (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.
£40.00
Gabriele-Verlag Das Wort GmbH This Is My Word Alpha and Omega
Book SynopsisA book of prophecy that teaches the truth about the life of Jesus directly from Christ, Himself via the prophetic word free of the Bible, theological opinions and interpretations. Jesus of Nazareth did not found a religion. He did not install any priests or pastors; nor did He teach dogmas, rituals or cults. 2000 years ago, He brought the truth from the Kingdom of God: The teaching of the love for God and neighbor toward people, nature and animals, the teaching of freedom, of peace and of unity. He spoke about the God of love, about the Free SpiritGod in us. Christ, the Co-Regent of the Kingdom of God, reveals in our time via the prophetess and emissary of God, Gabriele, the facts about His life and His works as Jesus of Nazareth. Learn the truth directly from Christ, Himselffree of theological opinions and interpretations. A reading sample:The one who considers matter to be the truth takes unlawful reflections as reality, because he lives in this illusionary light, in this world
£20.69
Cosmo Publications Lawaih a Treatise on Sufism: Nur-ud-din
Book SynopsisThe Lawaih delves into Sufi theology, distinguishing between experimental and doctrinal mysticism. It explores mystics' intense religious experiences, emphasizing Divine omnipresence and the soul's connection to God. The book aims to systematize these experiences through 'Flashes of Light.'
£20.24
Kitab Bhavan Jami, the Persian Mystics
Book SynopsisThe Oriental Scholar's sincere endeavour to establish a mutual understanding between East and West by stringing up the selected pearls of mystical teaching of last great poet of persia; especially, for those who find a great beauty and peace of soul in lofty philosophy of mysticism.
£5.48
HarperCollins India Sufism: Heart Of Islam
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£999.99
Cosmo Publications Traditions of Mysticism in Bengal
Book SynopsisThis book contains informative chapters on: Bengal Vaisnavism and Mysticism; The Bhagvat (God) as the ground of Jiva-Sakti and Maya-Sakti; Casuation in Bengal Vaisnavism; Krsna and His Incarnations; Bhakti and Mysticism; The Supreme Realisation; Acintya-Bhedabheda; Rasa (Relish).
£33.71
Regency Publications Great Mystic Saints of the World
Book SynopsisAs we sit in a secluded corner and behold nature, the thought that arises in our mind is, "There is nothing in this world, but life." The whole world universe from the atom to the sky is pulsating with life.
£6.00
Aakar Books Sufism in Punjab: Mystics, Literatures and
Book SynopsisEditors analyze diverse sufi studies approaches from early 20th century to present, focusing on Punjab sufis' methods to spread mystic ideology in medieval society. Essays cover sufi literature, shrine architecture, and connections to Punjabi culture, using interdisciplinary tools for historical analysis. Appeals to students in different fields.
£35.99
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Sufism and Modern Science
Book SynopsisSufism and Modern Science sheds light on the relationship between science and Sufism in Islamic history and philosophy. Al-Ghazali, Mevlana Rumi, Hasan al-Basri, Akshemseddin and Ahmed Süreyya Emin Bey are some of the names in the long list of Sufis who contributed to the field of science and philosophy. From the process of converting one element into another to the idea of overcoming time and space, Sufis have silently worked on and contributed to several scientific theories and theorems. Although this was not their main duty, they were pioneers in the positive sciences. Some Sufis used symbolic expressions which could be related to the terms developed by scientists only centuries later. From this, it is possible to sense the depth of the scientific foresight of the Sufis who also helped untangle the obstructed horizons of positive sciences. This book enlightens the readers of the lost history of science which was immensely enriched by the Sufis in different periods of time.
£9.49
East-West Publications Complete Works of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat
Book SynopsisAll known talks compiled from original sources.
£34.84
Jan van Baarle Tree of Life -- Laminated Folded A4
Book SynopsisThe tree of life is an important element of the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbala. This chart gives a clear representation of the tree with its 10 sefirah and 32 paths and presents the different readings associated to this universal structure. The tree of life can indeed be an intelligent representation of many fields: from the cosmos to the body, from the Hebrew alphabet to the tarot, the angels, the worlds of evil, human development... Although this double chart can only be an introduction to this very complex subject, it is extremely rich and will remain a practical guide for further study.
£90.40
Kanzeon Press Becoming Me: A Story of Creation
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Talking To The Dead
Book SynopsisA fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement - and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox - sisters aged 11 and 14 - anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali-like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story. An entertaining read - a story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts - Talking to the Dead is full of emotion and surprise. Yet it will also provoke questions that were being asked in the 19th century, and are still being asked today - how do we know what we know, and how secure are we in our knowledge?
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Forbidden Faith
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£13.56
Penguin Publishing Group Riding with the Lion In Search of Mystical Christianity
Book SynopsisThis work aims to recover the mystical heart of Christianity, confirming that there is a direct tradition of spiritual practices that the main stream Church has managed to ignore and suppress. The author's quest for knowledge takes him on a journey to Maine, New York, London, Cyprus and Greece.
£22.12
Oxford University Press Loves Subtle Magic
Book SynopsisThe encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love''s Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination. These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic visionTrade ReviewDoniger has edited an excellent volume constructed from lectures and drafts written by the late Behl...This volume is an indispensable guide to a long-ignored literary genre that provides glimpses into a society in which Hindus and Muslims, kings and commoners, composed a social order now divided into two hostile communities...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Aditya Behl's magnum opus is the consummation of his long quest for the multiple meanings of four fourteenth- to sixteenth-century epic romances, Indic and Hindu in language and imagery, yet written by Muslim poets attached to Sufi orders. His magisterial and lucid analysis, graced by lovely translations and suffused by his passion for storytelling, transcends the communalized assumptions of much modern scholarship on these enigmatic poems, to persuasively reconstruct their contemporary contexts of religious, political, and gender ideologies and of courtly and esoteric performance. * Philip Lutgendorf, author of Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey *In this multi-faceted work Aditya Behl shows persuasively that the Avadhi Sufi romances not only belong to a 'regional or Hindustani literary tradition with its own poets and politics,' but also move within a 'larger Islamicate world in which stories, people, and merchandise travelled freely.' Thus the 'yogic garb of the Sufi seeker and his sensuous meeting with the divinely beautiful beloved' must be read within a Sufistically inflected 'generic logic.' Behl does an elegant job of elucidating the allegorical complexities of this logic; it is sad to realize that we will have no more such work from him. * Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Columbia University *If India is an ocean of stories, its deepest currents are mysticism, its highest waves poetry. Only the most masterful of fishermen could test these waters with hope of success. Aditya Behl has done the nearly miraculous: he has given us all the catch from his wondrous, too brief, time as the supreme troller and the compleat angler of pre-modern Indian Sufi romances. Wendy Doniger has paid a tribute to his genius, putting it on display as if by an act of legerdemain in editing this long but never disappointing treasure trove of Hindustan. * Bruce Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Studying the Sultanate Period Chapter 2: Inaugurating Hindavi Chapter 3: Creating a New Genre: The Candayan Chapter 4: Oceans and Stories: The Mirigivati Chapter 5: The Landscape of Paradise and the Embodied City: The Padmavat, Part 1 Chapter 6: The Conquest of Chittaur: The Padmavat, Part 2 Chapter 7: Bodies That Signify: The Madhumalati, Part 1 Chapter 8: The Seasons of Madhumalati's Separation: The Madhumalati, Part 2 Chapter 9: Hierarchies of Response Epilogue: The Story of Stories Notes Index
£52.25
Oxford University Press, USA Mysticism and Religious Traditions
Book SynopsisDeals with the relationship between mystics and the religious communities out of which they emerge and of which they are a part.Trade Review"This volume includes essays by Katz, Robert M. Gimello, Hans Penner, Ninian Smart, Annemarie Schimmel, H.P. Owen, Ewert Cousins, John Carman, Julia Ching, and John E. Smith. Along with specific studies of Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Confucian, and Taoist mysticism, the book includes several broad, interpretive essays on mysticism in general."--Religious Studies Review "Along with specific studies of Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Confucian, and Taoist mysticism, the book includes several broad, interpretative essays on mysticism in general."--Religious Studies Review "I am quite impressed by this collection of essays and have learned much....Broad in scope and lucid."--Jon R. Stone, University of Northern Iowa "The book integrates very well the mysticism present in various religions."--Professor S.N. Desai, St. John's University
£19.99
Oxford University Press The Book of the Rewards of Life
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the human weaknesses that separate us from God and it is one of the most subtle and fascinating works ever written on the relationship of various sins to their corresponding virtues. This is the first complete translation of this important medieval visionary work.Trade Review"With care and graceful style, Bruce Hozeski has rendered this important but little-known work by one of medieval Europe's great women mystics. This is a valuable contribution to a growing inventory of resources in the history of spirituality."--Ralph Keen, University of Iowa "This volume...discusses the human weaknesses that separate us from god, and focuses on our moral flaws, which appear to be inherent in human consciousness, while revealing the importance of repentane and the virtues of rebuilding our union with God....If you're looking for a handbook of life, here it is."--Medium
£22.32
Oxford University Press Inc The Sufi Orders in Islam
Book SynopsisThe Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism. Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam up until modern times.Trade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: "An extremely useful general history of the Sufi orders...it fills a notable gap."--American Anthropologist Praise for the previous edition: "A pioneer effort to present the history of the Sufi orders."--The Times Literary Supplement "An extremely useful general history of the Sufi orders...it fills a notable gap."--American Anthropologist "It's good to have this work kept in print, as it is still the best available on the subject. John Voll has written an updating foreword which sets the material in a fresh and challenging perspective."--Herbert Mason, Boston University "...[Trimingham's]Sufi Orders remains a classic. He provides a readable account of Sufi praxis, the diffusion of mystical ideas and the impact of the orders on the Muslim Ummah."--Abdin Chande, St. Mary's State College of Maryland "This highly informative and well researched work is indispensable to the study of contemporary Islamic mysticism. This new edition is more than welcome."--Tamara Albertini, University of Hawaii "An indispensable reference book for the organizational, sociopolitical side of Sufism. It's good to have it in print again."--John Perry, University of Chicago
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Oxford University Press Inc The Mystics
Book SynopsisWhat is mysticism? The question continues to be the subject of fierce debate. Some argue that all mystical experience is the same - it is an innate human ability - while others insist that the nature of mystical experience is highly conditioned by the cultural and religious background of the mystic. There is, however, no disagreement about the identity of the mystics themselves. In this book, William Harmless offers a highly readable introduction to the mystics and their message. Their message, he says, centers on three topics: who God is, how we meet God in prayer; and why the human heart is at once so deep, so beautiful, so selfish, and so hard to fathom. By introducing students and general reders to these figures, he hopes to stimulate reflection on these great questions, and deeper exploration of the world''s mystical traditions.Trade ReviewIn an era of growing interest in mysticism the need for introductions that are clear and accessible without sacrificing scholarly rigor and depth of understanding is great. Few books meet this exacting standard, but William Harmless's Mystics proves that the balance between outreach and analysis is not an impossible task. Harmless's Mystics, based on years of classroom experience in teaching mysticism, is a model for a concise and thoughtful approach to this intriguing, but difficult, topic. It will be necessary reading for all those who wish to explore the message of the mystics. * Bernard McGinn, Emeritus Professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and author of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism *
£23.27
Oxford University Press, USA Beyond Dogma
Book SynopsisDespite Rumi''s (d. 1273) recent emergence as a best-selling poet in the English-speaking world, fundamental questions about his teachings, such as the relationship of his Sufi mysticism to the wider Islamic religion, remain contested. In this groundbreaking study, Jawid Mojaddedi reaches to the heart of the matter, by examining Rumi''s teachings on walaya (Friendship with God) in light of earlier discourse in the wider Sufi tradition and juridico-theological Islam. Walaya is not only central to Rumi''s teachings, but also forms the basis for the celebration of intimacy, communication with the Divine, and transcendence of conventional religiosity in his poetry. And yet walaya is the aspect of Sufism which has proven the most difficult to reconcile with juridico-theological Islam. Beyond Dogma presents, in addition to its focus on Rumi, a perceptive analysis of the historical development of the discourse on walaya in the formative centuries of Sufism. This period coincides with the timeTrade Review"In Beyond Dogma, Mojaddedi contextualizes Rumi's thought against the views of classical Sufi authors, and simultaneously offers a fresh alternative to prevalent narratives about the historical development of Sufism in the post-classical period. The first real attempt to situate Rumi within Sufi history, this superb book will make a major impact on Sufism studies."- Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Professor of History and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. Louis "Beyond Dogma is an original and welcome contribution to the understanding of Sufi history in general and Jalaluddin Rumi in particular. Rumi is the embodiment of the essence of Islam: not an Islam that defers to a dry legalism determined by man-made concepts, but rather an Islam imbued with mercy, compassion, flexibility, and love." - Kabir Helminski, author of Living Presence and The Knowing HeartTable of ContentsNote on the Text ; Introduction ; Chapter One : The Sources ; Chapter Two: Friendship with God in Relation to Prophethood ; Chapter Three: Divine Communication ; Chapter Four: The Friend of God and The Shariah ; Chapter Five: The Friend of God and Miracles ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
£67.45
Oxford University Press, USA Divine Flood
Book SynopsisUntil recently, academic studies of Sufism have largely ignored the multiple ways in which Islamic mystical ideas and practices have developed in the modern period. For many specialists, Sufism was on the way out and not compatible with modernity. The present study of a twentieth-century Sufi revival in West Africa offers overdue corrections of this misconception. Seesemann''s work evolves around the emergence and spread of the Community of the Divine Flood, established in 1929 by Ibrahim Niasse, a leader of the Tijaniyya Sufi order from Senegal. Based on a wide variety of written sources and encounters with leaders and ordinary members of the movement, the book analyzes the teachings and practices of this community, most notably those concerned with mystical knowledge of God. It presents a vivid and intimate portrait of the community''s formation in Senegal and its subsequent transformation into a flourishing transnational movement in West Africa and beyond. Drawing on letters, poetryTrade ReviewSeesemann's book is an important contribution not only to the study of religions in general but to Anglophone studies on sub-Saharan West Africa in particular. ... This book will be particularly welcomed by West African historians and students of Islam in West Africa but will equally be of interest to students of religious studies and Sufism. * Cleo Cantone, The Muslim World Book Review *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE: "A FLOOD SHALL COME UPON MY COMPANIONS"; INTRODUCTION: STUDYING SUFISM IN CONTEXT; PERCEPTIONS AND INTERPRETERS OF SUFISM - ISLAM AND AFRICA - SUFISM IN CONTEXT - THE SETTING - SCOPE AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; BIRTH, CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE - EARLY CAREER - FAYDA - A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TERMINOLOGY - NIASSE AS BRINGER OF THE FLOOD - RECEPTION AND RESONANCE; TARBIYA: AN OVERVIEW - SPIRITUAL ENERGY AND THE MYSTICAL STATE - JUSTIFYING TARBIYA - THE THREE STATIONS OF RELIGION - ANNIHILATION - THE SPECIAL LITANIES - "THE CUP MAKES ITS ROUND"; INTERNAL TENSIONS - DISCORD IN LEONA - HIJRA TO MEDINA - NEW ATTACKS - THE REJOINDERS - VISIONS AND ECSTATIC UTTERANCES; CONSOLIDATION IN SENEGAL - THE SUPREME SAINT - SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES - PASSAGE TO MAURITANIA - REDRAWING GENDER BOUNDARIES; CONSEQUENTIAL ENCOUNTERS - FIRST VISIT TO KANO - THE CONAKRY TRIP - RECEPTION OF "THE CONAKRY TRIP" - RETURNING TO KANO AND THE HIJAZ; EPILOGUE: AFTER THE FLOOD; NIASSE'S LEGACY - PATTERNS OF CONFLICT AND EXPANSION; GLOSSARY; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; ARCHIVAL SOURCES - INTERVIEWS CITED - WRITINGS BY IBRAHIM NIASSE - PRIMARY SOURCES IN ARABIC AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES - SECONDARY LITERATURE
£92.15
Oxford University Press Magic Doe
Book SynopsisMirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text, simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love-story full of adventures. The Mirigavati is both an excellent introduction to Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical quest and its resolution. Adventures from the Odyssey and the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor--sea voyages, encounters with monstrous serpents, damsels in distress, flying demons and cannibals in caves, among others--surface in Suhravardi''s rollicking tale, marking it as first-rate Trade ReviewWe are very fortunate to have this remarkable work in a sparkling verse translation whose brio effortlessly carries the reader forward. All is well supported by a rich introduction. This is the work, and I must say the labour of love, of a brilliant young scholar of the University of Pennsylvania, Aditya Behl, who died in 2009 aged forty-two. His teacher, Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago, has ensured that it has been published. It should undermine the ignorance which has surrounded Hindavi literature and, most importantly, bring it to a wider audience. * Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsForeword: In Memory of Aditya Behl by Wendy Doniger ; Introduction ; The Prologue ; The Story of Mirigavati and Rajkunvar ; Envoi ; Notes
£37.04
Oxford University Press Sufism for NonSufis
Book SynopsisFew forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam''s deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world. In his translation and analysis of Ibn ''Ata'' Allah al-Sakandari''s Taj al-''Arus, Sherman A. Jackson demonstrates that violent, lax, or rigid readings of the texts of Islam are just as much a result of the state of spiritual health, awareness, and fortitude of those who read and deploy them as they are of the substance of the Qur''an, Sunna, and the teachings of Islam''s sages.Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn ''Ata'' Allah al-Sakandari''s Taj al-''Arus shows the effort of a renowned Sufi master (d. 1309 CE) to circumvent the controversies and misunderstandings concerning Sufism to explain Islam''s tradition of devotional rectitude, spiritual refinement, and purificatiTrade Review[P]rovides both the liveliest and most meticulous introduction to Sufism for the non-Sufi. * Eric Ormsby, The TLS *Jackson's introduction to his translation is a model of its kind, at once scholarly and engaging. * Eric Ormsby, The TLS *Sherman Jackson has provided a work that will serve as an oft-cited primary tool for researchers engaged in Islamic Studies, Sufism and the history of mysticism. It is therefore as welcome an addition to the upper-division Islamic studies classroom, as it is to graduate seminars that focus on the history of Sufism. * Kenneth L. Honerkamp, Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Bride-Groom's Crown: Containing Instructions on Refining the Self ; Ibn 'Asta' Allah al-Sakandari ; Index
£76.42
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd Gods Lovers in an Age of Anxiety The English Mystics Traditions of Christian Spirituality
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University of Notre Dame Press I Want You to Be
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tomáš Halík recovers the old insight of the church fathers that faith should be seen as a journey rather than a fixed dwelling. His meditation on this is full of fresh insights that renew old truths and help us make surprising, biblical sense of our bafflement before the existential issues of faith. This is a book for our age." —Charles Taylor, emeritus, McGill University"Seldom have I read a book that prompted me to think about the mystery of God's love in such surprising and delightful new ways. By turns profound, challenging, and unsettling, Tomáš Halík's new book is also a rarity in theological and spiritual discourse in that it is beautifully written, clearly articulated, and wonderfully inviting." —James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage"In this luminous book, Tomáš Halík embodies St. Paul’s description of love—as patient, as kind, as bearing and enduring all things—in providing wise and gentle accompaniment to all those, believers and nonbelievers alike, who are seekers of transcendence in our perplexing times. In his exploration of the meaning of love of God and love of one’s enemy, he mines insights not only from familiar figures such as Eckhart, Kierkegaard, and Levinas, but from surprising sources including Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche. I Want You to Be adds to a body of work in which Halík has responded to Charles Taylor’s historical-sociological-philosophical analysis of our 'secular age' with his own penetrating theological, spiritual, and psychological diagnosis of the conditions of post-secularity." —William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America“Tomáš Halík is building a broad community of readers in Europe, between various religions, disciplines, cultures, and nations. He writes at a level higher than our best spiritual writers but does not write as an academic theologian despite the fact that he knows that kind of literature well. Halík's message of religious tolerance and understanding, against the background of European secularization, reflects a new voice for an American audience.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation“I think of Tomáš Halík as I think of C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, and Henri Nouwen—a rare combination of intellect along with an uncommon commitment never to betray the gene that unites us all as children of God.” —Doris Donnelly, John Carroll University"Fluently translated by Gerald Turner, Halík's book is a masterfully written meditation on love, the God of love, and the implications that the love of God has for the Christian life. Eschewing easy or simplistic answers to the questions it poses, it seeks to shake believers from complacency and to instill in them an attitude of greater openness to the world and to the God who is its ground of being." —Catholic Library World"A one-time member of the Czech underground and advisor to Václav Havel, Halík explores the theological understandings of love, grounding his discussion in scholarship yet writing in a style that is accessible to nonspecialists. . . . With this important book Halík joins the conversation taken up by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age and Martha Nussbaum in Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice. In addition to exploring the concept of love, Halík weaves important autobiographical elements that add personal depth to the conversation." —Choice"In reading this fine book, I have come to see [Halík] as a theologian for Friends (Quakers). . . . I Want You to Be is all about love—not the love of adolescent infatuation or romantic fiction, not the love of the narcissist, nor the love of possessions or their acquisition—the deep love in which the ego is transcended and we come into the power that unites without destroying or appropriating. . . . Halík carries the reader gently and surely through reflections and meditations toward this end, yielding no final answers (as he warns in the first chapter) but only an “interim report” of his own journey. It is well worth accompanying him." —Friends Journal"Seeking to apply his understanding of love in beneficial ways for our culture, Halík offers a diagnosis of our times throughout this book, rather than in a designated section. Echoing Teilhard de Chardin’s assertion that love alone can unify all without destruction, Halík sees the need for a fundamental, unifying spiritual vision in the West, particularly in Europe." —Reading Religion"What we have here is not so much prayer but what I have experienced as a profound, beautifully expressed, and translated propaedeutic to prayer. For, in my prayerful reading of it . . . I found it to be an extraordinarily 'pure'/unadulerated example of theologia secunda as, e.g., distinguished from theologia prima." —Worship
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Yale University Press Julian of Norwich
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Lulu.com The Key to Theosophy The Classic Introductory Manual to the Theosophical Society and Movement by Its CoFounder Madame Blavatsky Hardcover
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Limitless Publications LLC The Atheist and the Afterlife an Autobiography A True Story of Inspiration Transformation and the Pursuit of Enlightenment 1 Ray Catanias Awakening
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