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The Sublime Truths of The Shadhili Path By Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti Translator : Khalid Williams Notes By Shaykh Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Siddiq al-Ghumari al-Hasani Hardback 176 Pages ISBN : 9781909460041 Publisher : Visions of Reality Books About The Book This is the translation of Imam al-Suyuti’s risala ‘Tayid al-Haqiqa al-Aliya wa Tashyid al-Tariqa…
For anyone desiring a vivid, lively exposition of the Sufi path as embodied in the lives of God’s friends, the saints, together with their expositions of the prophetic traditions and Qur’anic passages which stayed their feet along the path, explanations of the divine realities, mystical stations and related enigmas, as well as specific phrases of…
A compendium of the Sunni proofs on the issues of tawassul (using intermediacy), tabarruk (getting blessings), ziyara (visit of graves), kashf (spiritual unveiling), karamat (miracles of saints) and the refutation of false accusations of “excessive love of the Prophet,” “grave-worship,” “forged hadiths” and more. The book came out in Arabic in Damascus in 2007. Here…
An exploration of the profound Sufi practice of Itlak Yolu • Examines the three main facets of this practice: zikr or breathing exercises, fasting, and mental suffering • Shares new Sufi parables, the sayings of Sufi master Hasan Lutfi Shushud, and Rumi’s philosophy on annihilation of the Self • Reveals how once the Self is…
Ibn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization. He was a great philosopher, theologian, and poet. William Chittick takes a major step toward exposing the breadth and depth of Ibn…
Review “I consider this work to be of great importance in the field of Islamics in particular and of the humanities in general. It is superbly conceived and guides the reader through the theory, practice, and mystical realization of Rumi’s thinking…I can think of no better way for a Westerner, and nowadays for a Westernized…
Joan Haslip was an author of historical books, often focusing on European royalty. She was born in London and educated in London, Paris and Florence. Her first book, Out of Focus, appeared in 1931; among her other notable publications are Lady Hester Stanhope (1934) and Parnell (1937). She also wrote for the London Mercury, the…
This rare manuscript was obtained from the collection of manuscripts of the Vatican Library. So far as is known, it is the only copy of this work remaining in existence. The introduction reads as follows: Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani (may Allah, the Independent Sovereign, ennoble him) wrote this Summary of Religious Knowledge [Mukhtasar fi ‘Ilm…
The Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma’arif) is one of the most revered historical grimoires of the Arabic corpus. Feared by some, hallowed by others, it is one of the most famous – or infamous – books in the Arabic-speaking and Islamicate world. Written in Egypt in the thirteenth century by a Sufi mystic and mage of Algerian…
SUNEE SURTEE DIASPORA: GOING BACKGROUND FROM MAURITIUS AND ABOVE. This book has taken over fifty years to prepare. From the time Anwar Youssouf Cara first began research into his family history to the actual completed manuscript. But the Muslim diaspora of Sunee Surtee began many centuries earlier. Prof. Dr. Ghulam Vahed’s introduction lays out the…
The Tree of Being (Shajarat al-Kawn in Arabic) is a work by Ibn Arabi, interpreted by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak who also includes here two other short works . Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) knew and influenced the great men of his time, including Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Jalaluddin Rumi and Suhrawardi, and his influence spread beyond the Islamic…
The Universal Tree and the Four Birds (al-Ittihad al-kawni) is one of Ibn ʿArabi’s early works. A dazzling blend of poetry and rhymed prose, this short mystical treatise encompasses a number of themes that were of perennial concern to Ibn ʿArabi, in particular the question of union with the Divine. Beginning with a series of poems that…
This unique portrait of the great Andalusian mystic uses his own writings to tell the story of his life and teachings. Chapters of biography are interwoven with chapters portraying the central elements of his thought and are supplemented with photographs and maps.
A scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been accounted and reveals how economic theory has failed to clearly delineate the difference between value creation and value extraction. Mariana Mazzucato argues that the increasingly blurry distinction between the two categories has allowed certain…
Given the Prophet Muhammad’s immense impact on history, surprisingly few books specifically analyze his understanding and employment of warfare as an economically, politically and socially transformational process, even though he was continuously at war for a decade and initiated around eighty armed missions, twenty-seven of which he led himself. Most Islamic biographies deal with this…
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