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Sufis
Language: en
Pages: 540
Authors: Idries Shah
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-20 - Publisher: eBook Partnership

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The Sufis is the best introduction ever written to the philosophical and mystical school traditionally associated with the Islamic world.Powerful, concise, and
Before Sufism
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Christopher Melchert
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-08 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants se
Sufis and Saints' Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Scott Kugle
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islami
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: N. Hanif
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Sarup & Sons

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Tales from the Land of the Sufis
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Mojdeh Bayat
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-10-16 - Publisher: Shambhala Publications

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Take a magic carpet ride into the delightful world of Sufi storytelling with these best-loved tales from Persian literature and lore, in which images of madness