Sufi essays /

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

Sufi essays / Seyyed Hossein Nasr. - 3rd ed. - Chicago : ABC International Group, c1999. - 204 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Sufism and the perennity of the mystical quest --
Sufism and the integration of man --
Revelation, intellect and reason in the Quran --
The Sufi master as exemplified in Persian Sufi literature --
The spiritual states in Sufism --
Man in the universe: permanence amidst apparent change --
Seventh-century Sufism and the School of Ibn ʻArabî --
Shi'ism and Sufism: their relationship in essence and in history --
Islam and the encounter of religions --
The ecological problem in the light of Sufism: the conquest of nature and the teachings of eastern science --
What does Islam have to offer to the modern world? --
From poem to narrative in Sufism.

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Sufism.

BP 189 / .N38 1999