Sufism category: 358 books
A Hunger for Healing
The Twelve Steps as a Classic Model for Christian Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
An exploration of the Twelve Steps and their unique benefits for Christians.
by Abdul-Malik Mujahid
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
After Eemaan (faith), the most honorable trail with which man could be endowed is patience. It is the best course of action in all situations. It is a cause for Allah’s mercy and help. It is a source of spiritual joy. The final victory in both matters of the world and Hereafter is only earned by...
By the Rivers of Babylon
Blueprint for a Church in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.
Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan.Profusely illustrated, the book is the product of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions.Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution...
by Darussalam Publishers, Dr. Ali Muhammad As-Sallabi
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book describes, among other things, the principles based upon which 'Umar ibn Abd Al-Aziz governed the Muslims during his caliphate: among those principles were mutual consultation, justice, equality among people, and honoring of freedoms. With the turn of every page, the reader will come...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2001
Beginning's End is a contemporary outlook on the Sufi sciences of self-knowledge, intended for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The author holds that truth has no end and is eternal, and that is why human beings will seek total freedom, of which material freedom is only a small part. The final freedom...
Islam in the Modern World
Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world....
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-reaching analysis that combines social, cultural,...
Sufis and Saints' Bodies
Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
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 Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through...
The Islamic Tradition
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
A LEADING EXPONENT of Muslim thought focuses on the inner spiritual meaning of the religion of Islam and its ramifications for the modern world, namely, the problems the tradition faces in our contemporary world, including Islam’s inner tensions between traditionalists and those who want to bring change—conservatives...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 1987
"There can be no doubt that there is only one message in man's heart, to be fulfilled, to live a life that is honorable and fearless, that has within it no darkness, ignorance or abuse."
This book is based on a collection of talks which were given in the eighties in the United States. The...
Pilgrims of Love
The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"... will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi...
The Calls of Islam
Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2013
The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices...
The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Centennial Edition
Volume I The Inner Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The works of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan are one of the great spiritual treasures of the world. At once deeply rooted in the Sufi tradition and strikingly original in insight and expression, Hazrat’s teachings remain as potent and meaningful today as they were when originally communicated a century...