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Knowing the spirit /
"Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit provides a concise and remarkably illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throughout nature, and of the process of the soul's deepening perfection through all the challenge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Persian |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Translator's introduction
- Ostad Elahi's life and works
- Childhood and youth
- Professional life and judicial career
- The final period : writing and teaching
- Ostad elahi's published works : the place of Knowing the Spirit
- Historical contexts : the audience, language and structure of Ma'rifat ar-Rūh
- The "three sources" : rational argument, religious tradition, and spiritual experience
- Allusion and realization
- The basic structure of Knowing the Spirit : the origin and the return
- The contemporary significance of Knowing the spirit
- The Persian text and translation conventions
- Translation of Knowing the Spirit
- Original table of contents
- Introduction
- Establishing the existence of the Divine Artisan
- The Spirit
- The gathering, reawakening, and returning (of the Spirit) in the realm of return
- The purely bodily return
- The purely spiritual return
- The harmonization of a bodily and spiritual return
- The (Spirit's) return by way of the process of perfection
- The belief of the proponents of transmigration
- Conclusion.