Sufism category: 358 books

The Book of the BookUsed for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: 'When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you...

First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated. The book's title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this...

Studies in Islamic Mysticism by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson The lives and writings of three early Sufi masters. Originally published in 1921. A fascinating exploration of Islam. Author: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson Language: English Keywords: Religion - Islam Many of the earliest books, particularly...

The Mishkât Al-Anwar (The Niche for Lights) by Al-Ghazzali, translated by W.H.T. Gairdner This is a translation with introduction of al-Ghazzali's famous Niche of Lights where he gives a commentary upon the verse of Light in the Quran. THE MISHKÂT AL-ANWAR[1] is a work of extreme interest...

Oriental Mysticism by E.H. Palmer Decoding the cloaked Sufi narrative of the journey to God. A treatise on Sufiistic and Unitarian theosophy of the Persians compiled from native sources. The author describes not only the basic tenets of the Sufis, but also the Ahl i wahdat, which was a...

Un viaggio nel mondo poetico e spirituale del grande mistico sufi Rumi, vissuto nel XIII secolo, considerato non solo un poeta ma anche un profeta e un santo, tanto che per molti musulmani è un nuovo Maometto, per molti cristiani un nuovo Gesù, per molti ebrei un nuovo Mosè. Il suo messaggio –...

“La via sufi non è una religione. Essa è presente nel cuore di tutte le religioni e di tutte le spiritualità”, così dice Phillip Gowins, che non è nato sufi, ma lo è diventato in seguito a una crisi nella prima maturità, che lo ha indotto alla promessa solenne di porsi al servizio del mondo,...

Una preziosa raccolta di aforismi, massime, poesie e preghiere.Per Hazrat Inayat Khan l’arte è un mezzo per esprimere la concezione spirituale Sufi. Egli divenne così il musicista dell’anima. Ecco quanto dice riguardo alla sua rinuncia alla musica: “Ho rinunciato alla musica perché da essa...

Ibn al-'Arabi and the Sufis is a fascinating and groundbreaking analysis of the extent to which various major Sufi figures contributed to the mystical philosophy of Ibn al-'Arabi. While recent scholarship has tended to concentrate on his teachings and life, little attention has been paid to the influences...

A spiritual group forms a sacred and protected space where energy can flow from the inner to the outer world. Weaving together dreams and spiritual stories, In the Company of Friends explores the psychological and spiritual processes experienced within a group, and how the energy of the path transforms the seeker.

The Paradoxes of Love explores the theme of mystical love. The heart’s relationship to God is one of the greatest mysteries, for He is both far and near, both awesome and intimate. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee looks at many of the paradoxes of the path, and how these seeming opposites are united within...

In his introduction to the anthology The Wisdom of the Sufis, Kenneth Cragg offers the Western reader valuable insight into the religion and richly poetic literature of the Middle East, and the esoteric, deeply experiential inner tradition of Islam. Bishop Cragg’s selections of prayers and legends...

Is there a wellspring of knowledge that can neutralize the duality of the world by offering a unified vision of the Whole? With originality and insight, the author makes a compelling case for the need to identify the sources of a traditional knowledge that still has the power to enrich people’s lives...

The premises at the heart of this 100 page extended essay are the following: (1) the principles that constitute the methodological processes of science and spirituality/mysticism closely mirror one another; (2) in addition, both sets of methodological processes entail the property of symmetry -- which,...