Sufism And Taoism

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292472
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Taoism written by Toshihiko Izutsu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply learned work, Toshihiko Izutsu compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, although historically unrelated, the two share features and patterns which prove fruitful for a transhistorical dialogue. His original and suggestive approach opens new doors in the study of comparative philosophy and mysticism. Izutsu begins with Ibn 'Arabi, analyzing and isolating the major ontological concepts of this most challenging of Islamic thinkers. Then, in the second part of the book, Izutsu turns his attention to an analysis of parallel concepts of two great Taoist thinkers, Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu. Only after laying bare the fundamental structure of each world view does Izutsu embark, in the final section of the book, upon a comparative analysis. Only thus, he argues, can he be sure to avoid easy and superficial comparisons. Izutsu maintains that both the Sufi and Taoist world views are based on two pivots—the Absolute Man and the Perfect Man—with a whole system of oncological thought being developed between these two pivots. Izutsu discusses similarities in these ontological systems and advances the hypothesis that certain patterns of mystical and metaphysical thought may be shared even by systems with no apparent historical connection. This second edition of Sufism and Taoism is the first published in the United States. The original edition, published in English and in Japan, was prized by the few English-speaking scholars who knew of it as a model in the field of comparative philosophy. Making available in English much new material on both sides of its comparison, Sufism and Taoism richly fulfills Izutsu's motivating desire "to open a new vista in the domain of comparative philosophy."

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520052642
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Taoism written by Toshihiko Izutsu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-08-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Izutsu's work is a pioneering attempt to bring into focus the shareable philosophical concerns of two seemingly unrelated landmarks into religious thought. His method is suggestive, interpretation new and bold, and material used important for further research. His book is useful to students of comparative religion, philosophy of religion, cultural anthropology, Asian thought and religion, and Islamic and Taoist studies."—Tu Wei-ming "[This book] carries out a comparison in depth between Islamic and Chinese thought for the first time in modern scholarship. . . . Since this book appeared it has influenced every work on Ibn 'Arabi and metaphysical Sufism...[and] any cursory study of Sufism during the last fifteen years will reveal the extent of Izutsu's influence."—Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Taoism written by Toshihiko Izutsu and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9780900588259
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insights Into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small volume brings together a number of Guénon's early articles relating to Sufism (tasawwuf), or Islamic esoterism. A later article, 'Islamic Esoterism', has also been included, since it articulates so well the particularities of initiation in Islam by defining the fundamental elements of tasawwuf: shari'ah, tariqah, haqiqah. The first constitutes the necessary fundamental exoteric basis; the second, the Way and its means; the third, the goal or final result. In the other chapters, Guénon expresses with his usual synthetic clarity what tawhid and faqr are, and gives examples of traditional sciences, relating angelology to the Arabic alphabet, and chirology to the science of letters ('ilm al-huruf). A number of book and article reviews give further insights into Islamic cosmology. Some may feel that the essay 'Taoism and Confucianism' here included has little relevance to Sufism and Islam. However, such writers as Toshihiko Izutsu and Sachiko Murata have drawn many parallels between the two traditions. Confucianism, concentrating on social and interpersonal norms, functions as a kind of shari'ah in the context of Chinese religion, while Taoism, like Sufism, is precisely the esoteric Way.

Author : Sachiko Murata
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791446379
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light written by Sachiko Murata and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation and the Timeless Order of Things written by Toshihiko Izutsu and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together Toshihiko Izutsu's most important essays on Islamic mystical philosophy. Though primarily concerned with Iranian mystics and philosophers, this penetrating group of essays displays Izutsu's unique insights in comparative philosophy by comparing and contrasting Islamic Sufism and philosophy with Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Archetypal Psychology and modern Existentialism fluent in over 30 languages, Izutsu's comparative research is based on careful reading of original texts in Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Pall, Sanskrit, Greek, and Japanese. The studies in this volume explore the deep structures of mystical insight and experience.

Author : Ray Grigg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462907458
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tao of Zen written by Ray Grigg and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen

Author : Jean-Louis Michon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0941532755
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism written by Jean-Louis Michon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Sufism, written by such contemporary contributors as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Chittick, and Frithjof Schuon, demystifies its language, philosophies, and history, in a volume that also provides interpretations of classic and modern essays. Original.

Author : Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Shower of Stars" Dream & Book written by Peter Lamborn Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tradition of intentional and initiatic dreaming connects the sufism of Ibn Arabi and the Owaysi Order, medieval Kabbala, Taoist scriptures, Afro-Brazilian spirit-cults, Siberian shamanism, and early Christian "angel alphabets." This book deals with specific methods for inducing prophetic or "veridical" dreams, because this book has a purpose: the experimental achievement of non-ordinary consciousness through autonomous openings ("Initiations") to the world of the imagination

Author : Kristofer Schipper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520082243
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taoist Body written by Kristofer Schipper and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant and lucid introduction to the traditions of Taoism and the masters who transmit them will reward all those interested in China and in religions.