Journey Among Dervishes Between Past And Present

Author : AA: VV:
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869774716
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey Among Dervishes Between Past and Present written by AA: VV: and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2024-03-08T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring together a classical orientalist approach, based on texts and written documents, with the approach typical of Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, based on research in the field and oral sources: the ethnographic study of the present sheds new light on practices, methods and theories exposed in treatises of the Past while, at the same time, practices of the present may be clarified and illuminated by the study of ancient Sufi texts and authors. These different approaches want to draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by “tasawwuf” (Sufism) both in its historical and social context and in its nontemporal aspect, concerning spirituality and the ways the latter is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and present.

Author : Omar Michael Burke
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Dervishes written by Omar Michael Burke and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1973 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O.M. Burke's first-hand account of his modern-day pilgrimage begins in a school built like a medieval rock fortress hidden in northern India. From there he takes the reader to monasteries where ancient lore is still taught, along the pilgrim road to forbidden Mecca, and into the heart and mind of Asia. Burke's experiences with living Sufis and their teachings, practices, and actions clearly dispel the notion of Sufism as a phenomenon of the past.

Author : Jurgen Wasim Frembgen
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
ISBN 13 : 9780195476422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to God written by Jurgen Wasim Frembgen and published by OUP Pakistan. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sufi tradition as the 'other face' and 'soft core' of Islam is characterized by tolerance, humanism and the accommodation of differences. This book is an introduction to the concrete, practiced and lived forms of Islamic mysticism surveying the whole of the Muslim world with particular emphasis on South Asia as its demographic centre.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0900860472
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Dervishes written by Idries Shah and published by Octagon Press Ltd. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious chest is buried unopened. A wondrous caravan brings fortune to a simple cobbler. An outcast princess creates a new life in the wilderness. Some of the 78 tales in this remarkable book first appeared in print over a thousand years ago; others are medieval classics. Yet each has a special relevance for us at the dawn of the 21st century. All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes. These are teaching stories in the Sufi tradition. Those who probe beyond the surface will find multiple meanings to challenge assumptions and foster new ways of thinking and perceiving. Tales of the Dervishes is essential reading for anyone interested in Sufi thought, the significance and history of tales, or simply superb entertainment.

Author : Joy E. Stocke
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 0983918813
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatolian Days and Nights written by Joy E. Stocke and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654045
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Dervish written by Robert Irwin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.

Author : Shems Friedlander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901383089
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes written by Shems Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the Sufi order of Mevlevi dervishes and its founder, the poet and mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, presents the esoteric wisdom of the Sufis as it has been handed down from the great teachers of the past without alienating the modern reader. In addition to Rumi's life story, accounts of dervishes past and present are included. Featured are excerpts from Rumi's poetry, teachings of other Sufi masters, descriptions of the dervish lodges and the symbolism of the dervish ceremony, and an overview of the music that accompanies the Mevlevis' dances. Haunting, evocative pictures of the order's dancers clad in traditional dress provide a glimpse of ceremonies usually closed to the public.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788869774270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dervishes Along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' - the term coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the web of caravan routes that connected China, South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The movement of goods and of people was accompanied by the circulation of ideas, bringing about a vivid exchange in the cultural sphere - sufism, or tasawwuf, was one such idea. Focusing on this them, these conference proceedings draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by tasawwuf, both in its temporal (i.e. historical, ethnographical and social) context, as well as its atemporal one (i.e. concerning spirituality and the ways this is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and in the present).

Author : H. B. M. Dervish
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journeys with a Sufi Master written by H. B. M. Dervish and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Hadrat Dervish describes not only journeys in India, Greece, Yemen and the Gulf, but also covers extraordinary experiences and teachings amongst the real Sufis of today.

Author : Carl Vett
Publisher : Bridges Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783929345315
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dervish Diary written by Carl Vett and published by Bridges Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery of this almost forgotten book in which the author, the Danish publicist and anthroposophist Carl Vett, is telling of a forgotten time is a lucky coincidence. "In 1925 I was in Constantinople, and was, so it was generally said, the first non-Mohammedan to be allowed to live for a time as a dervish in a Sufi monastery . Many years of study had made me familiar with the phenomena of psychic research, and I wanted to observe at first hand the ecstatic states attained by the dervishes in their way of initiation - for the dervish orders of Islam are schools of initiation. Before and during my stay with the dervishes I kept a diary. It was not intended for special publication, but in view of the execution of twenty-nine men, most of whom were sheiks or members of the Naqshbandi order . it has seemed that these experiences might be of more general interest; and so I have decided to offer them to the public."(From the author's foreword) Even now, more than 70 years after its initial publication, this book is a valuable read for anybody interested in the Islamic aspect of the mystical heritage of mankind.