World Of The Sufi

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784791582

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Assembled by Idries Shah, The World of the Sufi is a comprehensive collection of learned essays and papers on the subject of Sufi thought. One of the book's attractions is the way that it considers central questions and areas of study from different angles. Sufi literature, the use of humour, and Sufi communities in various cultural settings, are some of the many subjects discussed. In addition, experts in their fields comment on areas such as Sufism and Psychiatry, Indian Thought and the Sufis, and Therapy and the Sufi. Among the book's contributors are Idries Shah, Doris Lessing, Peter Brent and Dr. Arthur J. Deikman.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784791598

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Assembled by Idries Shah, The World of the Sufi is a comprehensive collection of learned essays and papers on the subject of Sufi thought. One of the book's attractions is the way that it considers central questions and areas of study from different angles. Sufi literature, the use of humour, and Sufi communities in various cultural settings, are some of the many subjects discussed. In addition, experts in their fields comment on areas such as Sufism and Psychiatry, Indian Thought and the Sufis, and Therapy and the Sufi. Among the book's contributors are Idries Shah, Doris Lessing, Peter Brent and Dr. Arthur J. Deikman.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sufi literature
ISBN : 9780863040832

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The Way of the Sufi by Idries Shah Pdf

"The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. Its author, Idries Shah, is regarded as the most influential modern exponent of Sufi ideas. His many books on the subject seek to make some of the Eastern world's greatest teachings accessible to a Western audience. In this book, Shah begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes to Sufi ideas, and evidence of their absorption into medieval Christianity, Hinduism, Jewish mysticism and modern philosophical teachings. The greater part of the book illuminates aspects of Sufi activity and practice relevant to the contemporary world." --

Author : Dina Le Gall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484258

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A Culture of Sufism by Dina Le Gall Pdf

A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of modern paradigms to obscure, Le Gall portrays a Naqshbandiyya that was devotionally sober yet not demysticized and rigorously orthodox without being politically activist. She argues that the establishment of this brotherhood in Ottoman society was not the product of political instrumentality. Instead the Naqshbandī dissemination is best explained in reference to a series of little-appreciated organizational and cultural modes such as proclivity to long-distance travel, independence from specialized Sufi institutions, linguistic adaptability, commitment to writing and copying, and the practice of bequeathing spiritual authority to non-kin.

Author : Leonard Lewisohn,Reza Tabandeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949743209

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Sufis and Mullahs by Leonard Lewisohn,Reza Tabandeh Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Sirriyeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136812767

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Sufis and Anti-Sufis by Elizabeth Sirriyeh Pdf

Despite its continuing appeal in the Muslim world, Sufism has faced fierce challenges in the last 250 years. This volume assesses the evolution of anti-Sufism since the middle of the eighteenth century and Sufi strategies for survival. It also considers the efforts of a few significant Muslim intellectuals to contemplate a future for a mystical approach to Islam without traditional Sufism. Many studies of Islam in the modern period have focused on the attempts of Muslim 'modernists' or 'fundamentalists' to come to terms with western modernity, and Sufis have often been marginalised in the process. Elizabeth Sirriyeh redresses this neglect by assigning to Sufism a central place in the broader history of Islam in the modern world and by examining how changing understandings of Sufism's role in modern conditions have affected Muslims of all shades of opinion.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9780863040511

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Sufi Thought and Action by Idries Shah Pdf

This book is an anthology of the extraordinary diversity of Sufi ideas and activities in many countries and cultures today. Nothing approaching this kind of survey has ever been assembled. In addition to first-hand accounts of Sufi learning methods, subjects covered include the Sufi meeting place, avoiding imitators, Sufi work enterprises, the idea of organic enterprises, entry into a Sufi group, the Sufi Adept and the projection of mind, extra-sensory perception, what the Sufis do not want us to know, and more.

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804272

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Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder Pdf

One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.

Author : Jean-Louis Michon,Roger Gaetani
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Francesco Piraino,Mark Sedgwick
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781787381346

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Global Sufism by Francesco Piraino,Mark Sedgwick Pdf

Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago and Sweden. The contributors look at the global spread and stance of such major actors as the Ba 'Alawiyya, the 'Afropolitan' Tijaniyya, and the Gülen Movement. They map global Sufi culture, from Rumi to rap, and ask how global Sufism accommodates different and contradictory gender practices. They examine the contested and shifting relationship between the Islamic and the universal: is Sufism the timeless and universal essence of all religions, the key to tolerance and co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims? Or is it the purely Islamic heart of traditional and authentic practice and belief? Finally, the book turns to politics. States and political actors in the West and in the Muslim world are using the mantle and language of Sufism to promote their objectives, while Sufis are building alliances with them against common enemies. This raises the difficult question of whether Sufis are defending Islam against extremism, supporting despotism against democracy, or perhaps doing both.

Author : IDRIES SHAH.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178479161X

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WORLD OF THE SUFI by IDRIES SHAH. Pdf

Author : Bullhe Shah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674259669

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Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah Pdf

A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day. Bullhe Shah’s work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as a master of mystical Sufi poetry. His verses, famous for their vivid style and outspoken denunciation of artificial religious divisions, have long been beloved and continue to win audiences around the world. This striking new translation is the most authoritative and engaging introduction to an enduring South Asian classic.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780863040368

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World Tales by Idries Shah Pdf

No ordinary collection of tales, this anthology was the result of extensive research that led Shah to conclude that there is a certain basic fund of human fictions which recur again and again throughout the world and never seem to lose their compelling attraction. This special paperback version of World Tales concentrates on the essentials, the text of the stories, and omits the illustrations which were part of a previous edition.

Author : Gholamali Haddad Adel,Mohammad Jafar Elmi,Hassan Taromi-Rad
Publisher : EWI Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781908433084

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Sufism by Gholamali Haddad Adel,Mohammad Jafar Elmi,Hassan Taromi-Rad Pdf

Sufism is one of the most ancient and widespread Islamic movements. A broad term, it is used to refer to a mystical and inward approach to faith. However, some Sufi groups have also had a significant impact on political or social developments in the Islamic world. This book discusses Sufism in virtually all regions of the Islamic world. Notable Sufi orders throughout history are described with a focus on their history, leaders, and distinguishing features. The relationship between Sufism and pre-Islamic traditions as well as other religions is also explored. This book is part of a series of translations from the Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (EWI) which was originally compiled in Persian. Other entries from this encyclopaedia which are available in English include Hadith, Hawza-yi ‘Ilmiyya, History and Historiography, Muslim Organisations, Political Parties, Qur’anic Exegeses, and Education in the Islamic Civilisation.