Claud Field: 5 books

Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field.This book is a beautiful description of the lives of Islam's most outstanding people throughout history.The story was about mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam.

The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835-1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story...

Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1058-1111) is one of the most important religious figures in Islamic history. He is particularly noted for his brilliant synthesis of mysticism and traditional Sunni Islam. Ghazzali's "The Alchemy of Happiness", written toward the end of his life, provides...

It is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in it. But however much later Islamic mysticism may have derived from Christian, Neo-platonic, and Buddhist sources, there is little doubt that the roots of mysticism...