Quest For The Red Sulphur

Author : Claude Addas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780946621446
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for the Red Sulphur written by Claude Addas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn Arabi is undoubtedly a landmark in Ibn Arabi studies. Until the publication of this book, anyone who wanted to learn about the life of Ibn Arabi has had little choice of material to work from. This major study by Claude Addas is based on a detailed analysis of a whole range of Ibn Arabi's own writings as well as a vast amount of secondary literature in both Arabic and Persian. The result is the first-ever attempt to reconstruct what proves to have been a double itinerary: on the one hand, the journey that took Ibn Arabi from his native Andalusia to Damascus - and on the other hand, the 'Night Journey' which carried him along the paths of asceticism and prayer to the ultimate stage of revelation of his mystic quest.

Author : Claude Addas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911141402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ibn Arabi written by Claude Addas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise introduction to the life and thought of Ibn 'Arabi, who is considered as the 'Greatest of Sufi Masters'. Written by the author of a best-selling biography of Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return traces the major events of Ibn 'Arabi's life: his conversion to Sufism; his travels around Andalusia and the Maghreb; his meetings with the saints of his time; his journey to Mecca; his travels in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Syria; his most important books. The events of Ibn 'Arabi's 'inner voyage', however, are far more spectacular than those of his outer life and are here presented directly from the many auto-biographical sections found in his writings. Through her detailed analysis of Ibn 'Arabi's works and her profound understanding of his ideas, Claude Addas gives us a comprehensive insight into the major doctrines of this most influential of Sufi, masters: the doctrine of prophethood and sainthood, of inheritance from the prophets, of the 'imaginal world', of the 'unicity of Being', of the 'Seal of the Saints', and many others. Addas also introduces the main disciples of Ibn 'Arabi down to the nineteenth century and traces both his unequalled influence on the course of Sufism and the controversies that still surround him till today. Ibn 'Arabi: The Voyage of No Return is essential reading for anyone interested in Islamic mysticism and is a genuine contribution to scholarship in this field. This second edition includes a new preface and an updated and expanded bibliography.

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Publisher : NID Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0979228131
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance written by and published by NID Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translation, notes, and commentary of Imam al-Harith al-Muhasibi's "Risala al-Mustarshidin (Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance)" serves as a layman's guide to Islamic spirituality.

Author : Bernard Haykel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528900
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revival and Reform in Islam written by Bernard Haykel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revival and Reform in Islam is at once an intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, and a history of a transitional period in Yemeni history. This was a time when a society dominated by traditional Zaydi Shiism shifted to one characterised instead by Sunni reformism. The author traces the origins and outcomes of this transition, presenting the first systematic account of the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reorientation of the Zaydi madhhab, and consequent 'sunnification' of Yemeni society, were intricately linked to tensions within the political realm. In advocating juridical systematization of religious belief and practice, Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which in its dominant features echoed key aspects of Western modernity. Yet he did so in a context bereft of Western ideational influence. This study then presents a textured account of eighteenth-century Islamic reformist thought and challenges the meaning of modernity in an Islamic context.

Author : Michel Chodkiewicz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499006
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ocean Without Shore written by Michel Chodkiewicz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ocean Without Shore is a study of Ibn Arabi, known in Islam as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the Greatest Spiritual Master. In the introduction, Chodkiewicz provides a good deal of documentation for the often heard claim that Ibn Arabi has been the most influential thinker in Islam over the past seven hundred years. He shows that this has been true, not only among the intellectual elite, but also among the common believers. He explains why a few Muslims have considered Ibn al-Arabi the greatest heretic of Islam, while for many others he is Islam's greatest spiritual teacher. In the main body of the book, Chodkiewicz demonstrates that Ibn Arabi's writings are firmly grounded in the Koran. In doing this he also shows that Ibn Arabi's Koranic roots run far deeper than has heretofore been imagined. He explains that principles of Ibn Arabi's Koranic hermeneutics with unprecedented clarity, and in bringing out the primary importance of the Shaykh's magnum opus, The Futuhat Makkiyya, he solves a good number of riddles about the text that have puzzled modern readers. Chodkiewicz's work shows how, for Ibn Arabi, the iniatory voyage is a voyage in the divine word itself.

Author : Richard G. Hovannisian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573979
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society written by Richard G. Hovannisian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book successfully defies the view that The Thousand and One Nights is not worthy of serious literary debate.

Author : Eric Geoffroy
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1935493108
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Sufism written by Eric Geoffroy and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features: --

Author : Robert Frager
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630625
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart, Self, & Soul written by Robert Frager and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart, Self, and Soul is the first book by a Western psychologist to explore the rich spiritual tradition of Sufism as a path for personal growth. Western psychotherapy aims largely to help us eliminate neurotic traits formed in childhood and adapt to society. In contrast, the Sufi goal is ultimately spiritual: Yes, we need to transform our negativity and be effective in the world; but beyond that, we need to reach a state of harmony with the Divine. Full of stories, poetry, meditations, journaling exercises, and colorful everyday examples, this book will open the heart, nourish the self, and quicken the soul.

Author : Muhyiddin Ibn ʻArabi
Publisher : Anqa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0953451399
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Tree and the Four Birds written by Muhyiddin Ibn ʻArabi and published by Anqa Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent initiation into the often complex works of Ibn 'Arabi, this brief, delightful tale is the first English translation of an important, early work, complete with Arabic text, commentary, and notes.

Author : M. Ibn 'Arabi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415442591
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufis of Andalusia written by M. Ibn 'Arabi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.