Download or read book Mo se dans la tradition soufie written by Faouzi Skali and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moïse est le prophète le plus cité dans le Coran. Reliant comme Abraham les trois traditions monothéistes, il incarne dans l'islam la double figure d'un prophète législateur et d'un maître d'initiation à la Voie, comme l'enseigne le soufisme. Celle-ci considère en effet la chaîne des prophètes depuis Adam comme un axe essentiel de l'histoire de l'humanité, au sein de laquelle la figure de Moïse exprime un degré spécifique de réalisation spirituelle.À partir des textes coraniques et des traditions recueillies par Tabari, Faouzi Skali reconstitue pour nous les principales étapes de la vie de Moïse. Surtout, au travers notamment des textes d'Ibn ÄòArabi, de Rûmi ou encore de l'émir Abd el-Kader, il nous dévoile il peut être pour chacun de nous, aujourd'hui encore, une source de sagesse. Il nous nous montre ainsi à quel point l'islam, en particulier dans son aspect le plus intérieur, s'inscrit dans la fidélité aux messages qui l'ont précédé.
Download or read book J sus dans la tradition soufie written by Faouzi Skali and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des maîtres soufis aussi éminents que Rûmi ou Ibn Arabi ont vu en Jésus le « Sceau de la saintet頻, tout comme Muhammad est le « Sceau de la prophétie ». Faouzi Skali, spécialiste reconnu du soufisme et membre d'une confrérie, avait amorcé une recherche sur ce thème au côté d'Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, qui a beaucoup contribué à faire connaître la mystique musulmane en Occident. Il rapproche ici Evangile, Coran et textes mystiques pour dresser le portrait d'un Jésus qui nous invite à la religion du coeur, par-delà les barrières confessionnelles. Le dialogue incessant des monothéismes trouve ici l'une de ses expressions les plus belles et les plus actuelles.
Download or read book Allah au f minin written by Eric Geoffroy and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À l'encontre de la misogynie ordinaire qui traverse tous les milieux sans épargner les plus « éveillés », il est indéniable que le Divin en islam présente des aspects profondément féminins. Dieu ne se nomme-t-il pas lui-même « le Tout-Miséricordieux » (expression coranique qui renvoie à la « matrice » de la femme) ? Ainsi, nombre de maîtres soufis ont exalté la précellence spirituelle du principe féminin, et se sont parfois adressés à « Elle » plutôt qu'à « Lui ». Éric Geoffroy, islamologue et spécialiste internationalement reconnu du soufisme, rend compte ici de cette face méconnue de l'islam, à travers ses développements sur l'androgynie originelle de l'humanité, l'évocation de grandes figures féminines comme Marie et des saintes soufies. Ce tableau étonnant débouche sur l'évolution actuelle du soufisme qui ouvre des voies nouvelles dans la pratique musulmane : nous découvrons des femmes théologiennes, des imames, et même des cheikhas de confréries, qui s'imposent par leur dimension spirituelle. Il nous permet aussi de mieux saisir en quoi le Féminin semble incarner l'avenir de nos sociétés.
Download or read book Histoires enseignement de la tradition soufie written by Anonyme, and published by Editions Oxus. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce qu'on appelle, depuis le XIXe siècle en Europe, le soufisme est une très ancienne tradition de connaissance concernée par le processus d'évolution dans lequel l'humanité est impliquée. Ce n'est pas une religion, moins encore une secte, mais une philosophie pratique. C'est un cercle de compagnons du Prophète Mohammed qui, poursuivant cette tradition, se sont appelés " soufis ". C'est pourquoi on associe souvent cette discipline avec l'islam, bien que son origine soit beaucoup plus ancienne. Le travail soufi vise à faire participer activement l'être humain à ce travail évolutif. Ses modalités changent selon les époques mais ses bases restent toujours les mêmes. Les histoires-enseignement, telles qu'elles sont présentées dans le présent ouvrage, font partie des instruments de travail utilisés actuellement en Occident par une école soufie authentique.
Download or read book J sus dans la tradition soufie written by Faouzi Skali and published by Editions Albin Michel. This book was released on 2013 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bien que les intégristes musulmans persistent à l’ignorer, Jésus tient une place centrale dans la spiritualité islamique : il est perçu comme le "Sceau de la sainteté" de même que Mahomet est le "Sceau de la prophétie". Pour le soufisme, il est le modèle du maître spirituel et de l’amitié intime avec Dieu. Faouzi Skali et Eva de Vitray Meyerovitch, deux des plus grands spécialistes francophones du soufisme, rapprochent ici Evangiles, Coran et textes mystiques de Rûmi ou d’Ibn Arabi. Ils nous dressent le portrait étonnant d’un Jésus initiateur aux mystères de l’amour divin. Cet essai, qui fut la seule collaboration entre ces deux auteurs et qui est ici présenté dans une édition fortement augmentée (première édition : Editions de l’Ouvert, 1985), s’attache également à la figure de Marie et de Jean Baptiste et explore les idées de prophétie, de sainteté et de miracle dans la tradition spirituelle de l’islam. Le dialogue incessant des monothéismes trouve ici une de ses expressions les plus belles et les plus actuelles.
Download or read book A Psychology of Early Sufi Sam written by Kenneth S. Avery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other aural phenomena - and its effect in inducing unusual states of consciousness and behaviours. The focus is on the earliest personalities of the Islamic mystical tradition, as mediated by texts from the tenth to the twelfth centuries C.E. These unusual states are interpreted in the light of current research in Western psychology, and also in terms of their integration into historical Islamic culture. A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ` provides new insights into the work of five Sufi authors, and a fresh approach to the relation between historical accounts of altered states and current psychological thinking.
Download or read book Psychology of Early Sufi Sam written by Kenneth S. Avery and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other aural phenomena - and its effect in inducing unusual states of consciousness and behaviours. The focus is on the earliest personalities of the Islamic mystical tradition, as mediated by texts from the tenth to the twelfth centuries C.E. These unusual states are interpreted in the light of current research in Western psychology, and also in terms of their integration into historical Islamic culture. A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ` provides new insights into the work of five Sufi authors, and a fresh approach to the relation between historical accounts of altered states and current psychological thinking.
Download or read book La multiplication des images en pays d Islam written by Bernard Heyberger and published by Ergon Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Band beinhaltet: Actes du colloque Images : fonctions et langages. L'incursion de l'image moderne dans l'Orient musulman et sa peripherie. Istanbul, Universite du Bosphore (Bogazici Universitesi), 25 - 27 mars 1999. Dieser Band beinhaltet: Actes du colloque Images : fonctions et langages. L'incursion de l'image moderne dans l'Orient musulman et sa peripherie. Istanbul, Universite du Bosphore (Bogazici Universitesi), 25 - 27 mars 1999.
Download or read book A Psychology of Early Sufi Sam written by Kenneth S. Avery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other aural phenomena - and its effect in inducing unusual states of consciousness and behaviours. The focus is on the earliest personalities of the Islamic mystical tradition, as mediated by texts from the tenth to the twelfth centuries C.E. These unusual states are interpreted in the light of current research in Western psychology, and also in terms of their integration into historical Islamic culture. A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ` provides new insights into the work of five Sufi authors, and a fresh approach to the relation between historical accounts of altered states and current psychological thinking.
Download or read book The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi written by William C. Chittick and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are almost no authoratative books readily available for the general reader that provide, in clear and accessible language, an introduction to the spiritual perspective illuminating Rumi's magical poetry. In this beautifully illustrated work, William C. Chittick, a leading scholar of Sufism and Rumi, opens doors that give us access to the inner sanctum of Rummi's thought.
Download or read book Varieties of American Sufism written by Elliott Bazzano and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, Varieties of American Sufism immerses the reader in diverse expressions of contemporary Sufi religiosity in the United States. It spans more than a century of political, cultural, and embodied relationships with Islam and Muslims. American encounters with mystical Islam were initiated by a romantic quest for Oriental wisdom, flourished in the embrace of Eastern teachings during the countercultural era of New Age religion, were concretized due to late twentieth-century possibilities of travel and immigration to and from Muslim societies, and are now diffused through an explosion of cyber religion in an age of globalization. This collection of in-depth, participant-observation-based studies challenges expectations of uniformity and continuity while provoking stimulating reflection on a range of issues relevant to contemporary Islamic Studies, American religions, multireligious belonging, and new religious movements.
Download or read book The Mughals and the Sufis written by Muzaffar Alam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, The Mughals and the Sufis examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar "The Great" (r. 1556–1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658–1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today.
Download or read book Pilgrims of Love written by Pnina Werbner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain, Europe, the Middle East, and southern Africa. Drawing on 12 years of fieldwork in Pakistan and Great Britain, she elucidates the complex organization of Sufi orders as regional and transnational cults, and examines how such cults are manifested through ritual action and embodied in sacred mythology and global diasporas. A focus of the study is the key event in the order's annual ritual cycle, a celebration in which tens of thousands of people gather at the saint's lodge in Pakistan and in the streets of Britain. Werbner challenges accepted anthropological and sociological truths about Islam and modernity, and reflects on her own role as ethnographic observer. Pilgrims of Love is a major contribution to our understanding of disaporic Islamic practices, highlighting the vitality of Sufi orders in the postcolonial world.
Download or read book Fighting the Greater Jihad written by Cheikh Anta Babou and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation’s president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, and Wolof, Fighting the Greater Jihad offers an astute analysis of the founding and development of the order and a biographical study of its founder, Cheikh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke. Cheikh Anta Babou explores the forging of Murid identity and pedagogy around the person and initiative of Amadu Bamba as well as the continuing reconstruction of this identity by more recent followers. He makes a compelling case for reexamining the history of Muslim institutions in Africa and elsewhere in order to appreciate believers’ motivation and initiatives, especially religious culture and education, beyond the narrow confines of political collaboration and resistance. Fighting the Greater Jihad also reveals how religious power is built at the intersection of genealogy, knowledge, and spiritual force, and how this power in turn affected colonial policy. Fighting the Greater Jihad will dramatically alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study Muslim mystical orders.
Download or read book Discovering Reality written by Sandra Harding and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing questions. They identify how it is distinctively masculine perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped the most fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in philosophy and the natural and social sciences - precisely the aspects of thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how these understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics; the very definition of the problems of philosophy in Plato, Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau; the `adversary method' which is the paradigm of philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of individuation in philosophical ontology and the philosophy of language; individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; Marxist political economy; and conceptions of `objective inquiry' in the social and natural sciences. These essays also begin to identify for us the distictive aspects of women's experience which can provide the resources needed for the creation of a truly human understanding. Audience: The book will be of interest to those involved in epistemology, and philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as well as feminist scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of value for theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the natural and social sciences.
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250 1800 written by Sheila S. Blair and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles.
