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Mystical Dimensions of Islam : Thirty-fifth Anniversary Edition.
As Carl Ernst makes clear in his new foreword to this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, Mystical Dimensions of Islam stands as a classic introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism, and one that will be hard to supersede. Its balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Arabic alphabet and note on transcription
- The Muslim year
- 1. What is Sufism?
- 2. Historical outlines of classical Sufism
- 3. The path
- 4. Man and his perfection
- 5. Sufi orders and fraternities
- 6. Theosophical Sufism
- 7. The rose and the nightingale : Persian and Turkish mystical poetry
- 8. Sufism in Indo-Pakistan
- 9. Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Letter symbolism in Sufi literature
- Appendix 2. The feminine element in Sufism.