Author | : Nāṣir-i Khusraw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Persian poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nāṣir-i Khusraw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Persian poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sefik Can |
Publisher | : Tughra Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597846139 |
This work attempts to present Rumi to the English-speaking world and to shed light on his life as seen from within the Islamic mystical tradition. The knowledge presented in this work comes from Sefik Can, a great expert of Rumi and who used to be the highest authority, Sertariq, of the Mevlevi Sufi order in Turkey until he passed away on January 24, 2005. Two aspects of this work make it unique. The first is that the book was originally authored by a man who is ninety five years old and who has dedicated his entire life to the teachings of Rumu. Such a Mevlevi's view of Rumi makes this work greatly valuable. The second important contribution to the book is the foreword, which was translated by from the original turkish, written by M. Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Muslim thinker and interfaith activist of Turkey.
Author | : J. T. P. de Bruijn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136780491 |
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Author | : Farhad Daftary |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2005-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0857713868 |
Ismaili Studies represents one of the most recent fields of Islamic Studies. Much new research has taken place in this field as a result of the recovery of a large number of Ismaili texts. Ismaili Literature contains a complete listing of the sources and secondary studies, including theses, written by Ismailis or about them in all major Islamic and European languages. It also contains chapters surveying Ismaili history and developments in modern Ismaili Studies.
Author | : John Andrew Morrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527562840 |
Shi‘ism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus provides a panoramic view of the Shi‘ite presence in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. This first volume surveys the seminal role played by the Shi‘ite Imams, their companions, and their followers in North Africa and Islamic Spain. It highlights the fact that several of the Shi‘ite Imams had Berber wives and mothers, and studies the settlement of sharifian families in the Western part of the Muslim world. It examines the role of the Shi‘ite Imams in the Sufi orders of the region, and scrutinizes the Berber and Arab Shi‘ites in the Maghrib and al-Andalus, the Shi‘ite sects that surfaced there, and Shi‘ite dynasties that they established. The work investigates the Shi‘ite revolts that took place in both the Maghrib and al-Andalus, and provides profiles of the Shi‘ite scholars who hailed from there. The Maliki Sunni inquisition and the mystery of the Shi‘ite Moriscos are also addressed, as are the vestiges of Shi‘ism and the current Shi‘ite revival in the region. By re-examining, re-assessing, and rewriting the religious and political history of the region, Shi‘ism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus makes a revolutionary contribution to scholarship in the field.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134539029 |
Originally published 1987. The first part of the volume is concerned with "The Roots of the Islamic Tradition and Spirituality". These are seen to include the Qu’ran as the central theophany of Islam, the Prophet who received the word of God and made it known to mankind and the rites of Islam. The second part examines the divisions of the Islamic community with their distinctive pieties and emphases: Sunnism and Shi’ism and female spirituality. Part III is devoted to Sufism – its nature and origin, its early development, its various spiritual practices and its science of the soul.