Download or read book Morals and Mysticism in Persian Sufism written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is often understood to be the mystical dimension of Islam, and many works have focused on the nature of "mystical experiences" and the relationship between man and God. Yet Sufism was a human response to a wide range of contexts and circumstances; the fact that Sufis lived in society and interacted with the community necessitating guidance on how to behave. This book examines the development of Persian Sufism, showing it to be a practical philosophy of the everyday rather than just a metaphysical phenomena. The author explores the ethic of futuwwat (or jawanmardi), an Iranian code of honour that emphasised loyalty, humility, generosity and bravery. Although inevitably some Sufis spiritualised this code of honour and applied it to their own relationship with God, the ethic continued to permeate Sufi behaviour on a more mundane level, typified by the strong links between Sufis and certain trades. Drawing on field research in Iran, as well as detailed analysis of both Arabic and Persian texts and new materials that have been published in Iran in recent years, this is the first book in English to provide a history of Persian Sufi-futuwwat, As such, this book is an important contribution to the study of Persian Sufism, and to the fields of Islam, history and religion.
Download or read book Oriental Mysticism written by Edward Henry Palmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oriental Mysticism: A Treatise on the Sufiistic and Unitarian Theosophy of the Persians The term may be generally understood of those Mussulmans, who, though pursuing philosophical enquiry, refuse to subscribe unreservedly to all the metaphysical doctrines of the Suf is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost 13th-century Persian mystics, 'Aziz Nasaffi with his simple manner of explaining God, His Essence, Attributes and Acts provides the western reader with an overview of all the major interpretations of medieval Islamic thought. Providing the first comprehensive selection in English of Nasaffi's treatises, Dr Ridgeon's work offers the western student of Islam a much-needed guide to the speculative and practical dimensions of Sufism.
Download or read book The Kashf al mahj b The oldest Persian treatise on S fiism written by 'Ali ibn 'Usman Hujviri and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashf al-Mahjub (Revelation of the Hidden) is one of the most ancient and revered Persian treatise on Sufism which contains a complete system of Sufism with its doctrines and practices. Hujwiri clarifies and illustrates many of his mystical controversies and current opinions with his experiences. The book, with its Persian flavor of philosophical speculation and fiction, is itself a piece of Ali Hujwiri's identity.
Download or read book R zbih n Baql written by Carl W. Ernst and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruzbihan Baqli is a full-length study devoted to the life and mystical experiences of one of the outstanding figures in Persian Sufism. Although Ruzbihan Baqli (d.1209) was long recognized within the Sufi tradition, it is only within the past few decades that his works have been rediscovered and printed. This study introduces and analyzes the most important sources for the life of Ruzbihan, his own visionary diary (The Unveiling of Secrets) written in Arabic, and two Persian hagiographies written by his great-grandsons a century after his death; and extensive excerpts from these works are presented here in translation. Ruzbihan's diary is filled with visions of astonishing intensity, and it contains remarkable encounters with God, the angels, the prophets and the Sufi saints. This book aims to articulate and describe the structure of mystical experience in Ruzbihan's writings through analysis of his rhetoric of sainthood. Ruzbihan's diary is contrasted with the two biographies devoted to him by his descendants.
Download or read book Sufism in the Secret History of Persia written by Milad Milani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers.
Download or read book Oriental Mysticism written by and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor E. H. Palmer's systematization of these Sufic materials has been regarded as essential reading in its subject for many years. Part I Of the Traveller, the Goal, the Stages, and the Road Part II Concerning the Nature of God Part III The Saintly and Prophetic Offices Defined Part IV On the Influence of Early Prejudice upon Belief Part V The Study of Man Glossary of Technical and Allegorical Terms in use among the Sufi Poets.
Download or read book The Way of the Sufi written by Idries Shah and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Persian Mystics J m written by Jami and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the life and works of Jami. He was a Persian Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature. He was primarily a prominent poet-theologian of the school of Ibn Arabi and a Khwājagānī Sũfī, recognized for his eloquence and for his analysis of the metaphysics of mercy. Some of the works featured in this book include 'The Story of "Yúsuf and Zulaikha"', 'The Baháristán', and 'Abode of Spring'.
Download or read book Classical Persian Sufism written by Leonard Lewisohn and published by KNP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLASSIC PERSIAN SUFISM: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO RUM is a unique introduction into the rise and development of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature. Written in the form of essay the book focuses historically upon the first six Muslim centuries and captures the mood of the mystics' meditative, interiorized, highly sophisticated vision of Islam.
Download or read book The Legacy of Medi val Persian Sufism written by Leonard Lewisohn and published by Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veils and Clothing Government Economics and Commerce Medicine and Healing.
Download or read book Sufism and the Way of Blame written by Yannis Toussulis and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award and the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award! This is a definitive book on the Sufi “way of blame” that addresses the cultural life of Sufism in its entirety. Originating in ninth-century Persia, the “way of blame” (Arab. malamatiyya) is a little-known tradition within larger Sufism that focused on the psychology of egoism and engaged in self-critique. Later, the term referred to those Sufis who shunned Islamic literalism and formalism, thus being worthy of “blame.” Yannis Toussulis may be the first to explore the relation between this controversial movement and the larger tradition of Sufism, as well as between Sufism and Islam generally, throughout history to the present. Both a Western professor of the psychology of religion and a Sufi practitioner, Toussulis has studied malamatiyya for over a decade. Explaining Sufism as a lifelong practice to become a “perfect mirror in which God contemplates Himself,” he draws on and critiques contemporary interpretations by G. I Gurdjieff, J. G. Bennett, and Idries Shah, as well as on Frithjof Schuon, Martin Lings, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. He also contributes personal research conducted with one of the last living representatives of the way of blame in Turkey today, Mehmet Selim Ozic.
Download or read book The Persian Sufis written by Cyprian Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- I Introductory -- II The Ṣūfi Movement -- III The Way and its Goal -- IV The Seven Stages -- V The Mystical States -- VI Homesickness (Firáq) -- VII Lost in God (Faná) -- VIII The Vision of God -- IX Two Ṣūfi Practices -- Index
Download or read book Jalalu d Din Rumi written by and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is a school for the actualization of divine ethics. It involves an enlightened inner being, not intellectual proof; revelation and witnessing, not logic. By divine ethics, we are referring to ethics that transcend mere social convention, a way of being that is the actualization of the attributes of God. To explain the Truth is indeed a difficult task. Words, being limited, can never really express the perfection of the Absolute, the Unbound. Thus, for those who are imperfect, words create doubt and misunderstanding. Yet: If one cannot drink up the entire ocean, one can drink to one's limit. Philosophers have written volumes and spoken endlessly of the Truth, but somehow their efforts have always fallen short. For the sufi, philosophers are those who view the Perfection of the Absolute from a limited perspective; so all they see is part of the Absolute, not the Infinite in its entirety. It is indeed true that what philosophers see is correct; nevertheless, it is only a part of the whole. One is reminded of Rumi's well-known story of a group of men in India who had never seen an elephant. One day they came to a place where an elephant was. In complete darkness they approached the animal, each man feeling it. Afterwards, they described what they thought they had perceived. Of course their descriptions were different. The one who felt a leg, imagined the elephant to be a pillar. The one who felt the animal's ear, described the elephant as a fan, and so on. Each one of their descriptions with respect to the various parts they had experienced was true. However, as far as accurately describing the whole, their conceptions had all fallen short. If they had had a candle, the difference of opinions would not have come about. The candle's light would have revealed the elephant as a whole. Only by the light of the Spiritual Path and the mystic way can the Truth be discovered. In order for one to truly witness the Perfection of the Absolute, one must see with one's inner being, which perceives the whole of Reality. This witnessing happens when one becomes perfect, losing one's (partial) existence in the Whole. If the Whole is likened to the Ocean, and the part to a drop, the sufi says that witnessing the Ocean with the eye of a drop is impossible. However, when the drop becomes one with the Ocean, it sees the Ocean with the eye of the Ocean.
Download or read book The Sufi Message Volume 10 written by Hazrat Inayat Khan and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the spiritual in everyday life. The very variety of its contents is an illustration of the significance of Sufism and spirituality in general for human life. The first two parts, Sufi Mysticism and The Path of Initiation and Discipleship expand further on themes presented in earlier volumes, particularly in volumes 1 The Way of Illumination. The reader is called to reconsider his life and how he is leading it rather than what life is his. Where is your ideal? In Sufi Poetry Hazrat Inayat Khan discusses the life, work and influence of some of the great Sufi poets of the past, illustrating the significance of mysticism and discipleship.
Download or read book Ruzbihan Baqli written by Carl W. Ernst and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism written by Henry Corbin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
