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Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, poetic and theological writings

Author: Michael Anthony Sells; Carl W Ernst
Publisher: New York : Paulist Press, ©1996.
Series: Classics of Western spirituality, #86.
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Genre/Form: Early works to 1800
Ouvrages avant 1800
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Early Islamic mysticism.
New York : Paulist Press, c1996
(OCoLC)604182513
Online version:
Early Islamic mysticism.
New York : Paulist Press, c1996
(OCoLC)608407763
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Anthony Sells; Carl W Ernst
ISBN: 0809104776 9780809104772 0809136198 9780809136193
OCLC Number: 33947675
Description: xi, 398 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 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 / Qushayri --
Her words and life in ʻAtar's Memorial of the Friends of God / Rabiʻa --
Moral psychology / Muhasibi --
The seven stations from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Sarraj --
Sarraj on Bistami's Mystical Utterances from The Book of Flashes (Kitāb al-Lumaʻ) / Bistami --
The other Bistami : The Biographies of Sulami and Qushayri / Bistami --
The Miʻraj of Bistami / Bistami --
On the Affirmation of Unity (Tawḥīd) / Junayd --
On Annihilation (Fanāʼ) / Junayd --
Iblis as Tragic Lover (The ṬāSīn of Before-Time and Ambiguity) / Hallaj --
Who are You and Who Am I? from the Book of Standings (Kitāb al-Mawāqif) / Niffari --
"If They Only Knew" from the Diwan Attributed to al-Hallaj --
Scholastic Theology (Kalām) on Unity and Justice.
Series Title: Classics of Western spirituality, #86.
Responsibility: translated, edited, and with an introduction by Michael A. Sells ; preface by Carl W. Ernst.

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