[PDF] Morals And Mysticism In Persian Sufism eBook

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136970584

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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.

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136802681

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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.

Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113610402X

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The first full-length study devoted tothe life and mystical experiences of one of the outstanding figures in Persian Sufism.

Author : Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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CLASSIC PERSIAN SUFISM: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO RUMI is a unique introduction into the rise and development of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature. Written in the form of essays, the book focuses historically upon the first six Muslim centuries and captures the mood of the mystics' meditative, interiorized, highly sophisticated vision of Islam.

Author : Milad Milani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317544595

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Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. '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. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.

Author : 'Ali ibn 'Usman Hujviri
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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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.

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
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ISBN : 9781544220024

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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.

Author : Amin Banani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1994-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521454766

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Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi was one of the greatest poets and mystics of the Islamic world. He was born in Balkh (Korasan) in AD 1207 and died in Konya (Turkey) in AD 1273. This book is an examination of his spiritual and literary heritage. As Annemarie Schimmel, the recipient of the Eleventh Giorgio Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies, has written, 'no other mystic and poet from the Islamic world is as well known in the West as Rumi', and she, more than any Western scholar, is his most celebrated and eloquent interpreter. The scholars who Professor Schimmel has invited to share in her tribute have all added new dimensions to an understanding of Rumi and to his impact on the Islamic world.

Author : Cyprian Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 9781138079939

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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