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An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master.

This book explores the profound spiritual encounter between Serge de Beaurecueil (1917?2005), a twentieth-century French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-century anbali Sufi master Khwaja ''Abdullah Anari of Herat (1006?1089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the foremost expert on the life and thought of Anari. His mystical conversation and scholarly engagement with Anari, his experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the religious other.

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781438466187, 978-1438466187
      ISBN10: 1438466188

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master.

      This book explores the profound spiritual encounter between Serge de Beaurecueil (1917?2005), a twentieth-century French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-century anbali Sufi master Khwaja ''Abdullah Anari of Herat (1006?1089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the foremost expert on the life and thought of Anari. His mystical conversation and scholarly engagement with Anari, his experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the religious other.

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