Sufism And Taoism

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520292475

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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
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520052641

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"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 : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Sufism
ISBN : LCCN:84213275

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Sufism and Taoism by Toshihiko Izutsu Pdf

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 090058825X

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Insights Into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism by René Guénon Pdf

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 : Chang Po-tuan
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570627101

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The Inner Teachings of Taoism by Chang Po-tuan Pdf

Taoist inner alchemy is a collection of theories and practices for transforming the mind and refining the self. The Inner Teachings of Taoism includes a classic of Chinese alchemy known as Four Hundred Words on the Gold Elixir. Written in the eleventh century by a founder of the Complete Reality School, this text is accompanied by the lucid commentary of the nineteenth-century adept Lui I-ming.

Author : Toshihiko Izutsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015034530850

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Creation and the Timeless Order of Things by Toshihiko Izutsu Pdf

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
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781462907458

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Tao of Zen by Ray Grigg Pdf

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 : Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020258716

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"Shower of Stars" Dream & Book by Peter Lamborn Wilson Pdf

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 : Sachiko Murata
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791446379

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Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light by Sachiko Murata Pdf

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 : Jean-Louis Michon,Roger Gaetani
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780941532754

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Sufism by Jean-Louis Michon,Roger Gaetani Pdf

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 : Kristofer Schipper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082249

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The Taoist Body by Kristofer Schipper Pdf

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.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784790028

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Sufis by Idries Shah Pdf

The Sufis is the best introduction ever written to the philosophical and mystical school traditionally associated with the Islamic world.Powerful, concise, and intensely thought-provoking, it sums up over a thousand years of Eastern thought - the product of some of the greatest minds humanity has ever produced - into a single work, presenting timeless ideas in a fresh and contemporary style.When the book was originally published in 1964, it launched its author, Idries Shah, on to the international stage, attracting the attention of thinkers and writers such as J. D. Salinger, Doris Lessing, Ted Hughes and Robert Graves.It introduced to the Western world concepts which have subsequently become commonly accepted, varying from the psychological importance of attention and humour, to the use of traditional tales as teaching instruments (what Shah termed 'teaching-stories'), and the historical debt owed by the West to the Middle East in matters scientific, literary and philosophical.As a primer for the many dozens of Sufi books that Shah later produced, it is unsurpassed, offering a clear window onto a community whose system of thought and action has long concerned itself with the advancement of the whole of humankind, and whose ideas about individuals and society, their purpose and direction, need to be understood now more than ever before.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933316505

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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.

Author : Fitzroy Morrissey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000029758

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Sufism and the Perfect Human by Fitzroy Morrissey Pdf

Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insān al-kāmil), this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabī and later treated in greater depth by al-Jīlī, the idea left its mark on later Islamic mystical, metaphysical, and political thought, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, up until modern times. The research tells the story of the development of that idea from Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī and beyond. It does so through a thematic study, based on close reading of primary sources in Arabic and Persian, of the key elements of the idea, including the idea that the Perfect Human is a locus of divine manifestation (maẓhar), the concept of the ‘Pole’ (quṭb) and the ‘Muhammadan Reality’ (al-ḥaqīqah al-Muhammadiyyah), and the identity of the Perfect Human. By setting the work of al-Jīlī against the background of earlier Ibn ‘Arabian treatments of the idea, it demonstrates that al-Jīlī took the idea of the Perfect Human in several new directions, with major consequences for how the Prophet Muhammad – the archetypal Perfect Human – was viewed in later Islamic thought. Introducing readers to the key Sufi idea of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil), this volume will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Sufism, Islam, religion and philosophy.

Author : Mukhtar H. Ali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004425330

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The Horizons of Being by Mukhtar H. Ali Pdf

The Horizons of Being is a parallel English-Arabic translation and commentary of Dawūd al-Qayṣarī’s (d. 1350) Prolegomena to his commentary on Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.