Sufism category: 358 books
The Mysticism of Sound and Music
The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1996
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition...
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
The circle of divine love is always present within the heart. The journey of the mystic is to retrace this circle and so experience the oneness that is hidden within us. Continuing his work of providing a contemporary understanding of Sufism, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee draws us into this mystery of the...
by Gregory A. Lipton
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn `Arabi, Gregory Lipton calls...
Sufi Encounters
Sharing the Wisdom of Enlightened Sufis
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
An unparalleled exploration of Sufism as it is practised around the world, describing meetings with today's enlightened teachers as well as including wonderfully inspiring translations of the great Sufi masters of the past. Ultimately, this book acts as a guide to the Sufi path and offers wise insight...
The Way of the Lover
Sufism, Shamanism and the Spiritual Art of Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The latest from the Moon Books Classic series, The Way of The Lover combines medicine wheel teachings of ‘The Path of The Heart’, with the poetry and hidden teachings of illumination within the words of the great Sufi love poet, Rumi. It explores the questions that concern every man and woman: What...
Teachings of a Perfect Master
An Islamic Saint for the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Collected in entirety for the very first time, this study reflects more than 25 years of close contact with the Sufi Masters of Central Anatolia, with much of that time spent in the presence of the peerless Sufi teacher Mr. Ahmet Kayhan. Out of the author’s association with this personality has...
Living and Dying with Grace
Counsels of Hadrat Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1996
Living and Dying with Grace is a book of aphoristic Sufi teachings on how to make one's way in the world—especially on how to bring spiritual insight to the affairs of daily life. Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, contains a vast body of knowledge concerning the inner development of the complete...
Modern Muslims
A Sudan Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Taha was a religious intellectual who participated...
Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought
Can Allah Save Us All?
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought uses classical Islamic sources to trace the development of Islamic eschatology during the formative centuries of Islamic intellectual history. Marco Demichelis draws on classical Islamic scholars, including Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn...
The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The female voice plays a more central role in Sufi ritual, especially in the singing of devotional poetry, than in almost any other area of Muslim culture. Female singers perform sufiana-kalam, or mystical poetry, at Sufi shrines and in concerts, folk festivals, and domestic life, while male singers...
Holistic Islam
Sufism, Transformation, and the Needs of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Islam once gave birth to a great civilization that respected religious diversity, freedom of conscience, and scientific thought, and Islamic knowledge contributed to the birth of humanism in the Renaissance. Today's world is desperately in need of a spirituality that is free of dogma, based in experiences...
A Map of the Divine Subtle Faculty
The Concept of the Heart in the Works of Ghazali, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The heart in the Islamic understanding is the expression of a human being's spiritual existence. It is a Divine gift and Divine subtle faculty bestowed upon humanity. It is a polished mirror reflecting God. Like a general, the heart commands all other bodily organs and faculties, which are its troops,...
The Philosophy of Ecstasy
Rumi and the Sufi Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of “Whirling Dervishes,” is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his work is such that UNESCO declared 2007 to be “International Rumi Year.” However, his writings represent much more than love poetry....
by Kevser Yesiltash
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
The mystical teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi, particularly influential in Anatolia, are rooted in a tens-of-thousands-of-years old knowledge attainment and transfer tradition, which is one of the fundamental cornerstones of Sufism.
Through his unique method, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi performed...