Tantur Ecumenical Institute LibraryEarly Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, poetic and theological writings /
Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, poetic and theological writings /
translated, edited, and with an introduction by Michael A. Sells ; preface by Carl W. Ernst.
- New York : Paulist Press, c1996.
- xi, 398 p. ; 23 cm.
- Classics of Western spirituality ; #86 .
- Classics of Western spirituality. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385) and indexes.
Spirituality and embodiment in Islam -- Four phases of Islamic spirituality -- The Qurʼan -- The Miʻraj : sacred cosmology and mystical orientation -- The Beloved : poetic dimensions of Islamic spirituality -- The Qurʼanic commentary attributed to Jʻafar as-Sadiq (the sixth Imam) -- Sahl at-Tustari (from the Interpretaion of the Majestic Qurʼan) -- Interpreting mystical expressions from the Treatise / Her words and life in ʻAtar's Memorial of the Friends of God / Moral psychology / The seven stations from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Sarraj on Bistami's Mystical Utterances from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / The other Bistami : The Biographies of Sulami and Qushayri / The Miʻraj of Bistami / On the Affirmation of Unity (Tawḥīd) / On Annihilation (Fanāʼ) / Iblis as Tragic Lover (The ṬāSīn of Before-Time and Ambiguity) / Who are You and Who Am I? from the Book of Standings (Kitāb al-Mawāqif) / "If They Only Knew" from the Diwan Attributed to al-Hallaj -- Scholastic Theology (Kalām) on Unity and Justice. Qushayri -- Rabiʻa -- Muhasibi -- Sarraj -- Bistami -- Bistami -- Bistami -- Junayd -- Junayd -- Hallaj -- Niffari --
0809104776 (cloth : alk. paper) 0809136198 (pbk. : alk. paper)
95052973
Sufism--Early works to 1800.
BP188.9 / .E2 1996
297.4 / Se48ea
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-385) and indexes.
Spirituality and embodiment in Islam -- Four phases of Islamic spirituality -- The Qurʼan -- The Miʻraj : sacred cosmology and mystical orientation -- The Beloved : poetic dimensions of Islamic spirituality -- The Qurʼanic commentary attributed to Jʻafar as-Sadiq (the sixth Imam) -- Sahl at-Tustari (from the Interpretaion of the Majestic Qurʼan) -- Interpreting mystical expressions from the Treatise / Her words and life in ʻAtar's Memorial of the Friends of God / Moral psychology / The seven stations from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Sarraj on Bistami's Mystical Utterances from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / The other Bistami : The Biographies of Sulami and Qushayri / The Miʻraj of Bistami / On the Affirmation of Unity (Tawḥīd) / On Annihilation (Fanāʼ) / Iblis as Tragic Lover (The ṬāSīn of Before-Time and Ambiguity) / Who are You and Who Am I? from the Book of Standings (Kitāb al-Mawāqif) / "If They Only Knew" from the Diwan Attributed to al-Hallaj -- Scholastic Theology (Kalām) on Unity and Justice. Qushayri -- Rabiʻa -- Muhasibi -- Sarraj -- Bistami -- Bistami -- Bistami -- Junayd -- Junayd -- Hallaj -- Niffari --
0809104776 (cloth : alk. paper) 0809136198 (pbk. : alk. paper)
95052973
Sufism--Early works to 1800.
BP188.9 / .E2 1996
297.4 / Se48ea