The Mystics of Islam

The Mystics of Islam

By Reynold A. Nicholson
Michael Caine
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Length4h 6m

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Sūfism, the religious philosophy of Islam, is described in the oldest extant definition as 'the apprehension of divine realities,' and Mohammedan mystics are fond of calling themselves Ahl al-Haqq, 'the followers of the Real.' In attempting to set forth their central doctrines from this point of view, the author draws to some extent on materials which he has collected for a history of Islamic mysticism. This edition provides an easy approach to the study of Islamic mysticism. Apart what the general reader requires to be told at first about Sūfism; the book includes a large amount of material that will be new even to professional Orientalists. Dr. Nicholson sets before us the results of twenty years' unremitting labour, and that, too, with remarkable simplicity and clarity for such a subject; at the same time he lets the mystics mostly speak for themselves and mainly in his own fine versions from the original Arabic and Persian.

Audiobook details

GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 8, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1EDITOR’S NOTE
8CHAPTER II ILLUMINATION AND ECSTASY
2INTRODUCTION
9CHAPTER III THE GNOSIS
3I. Christianity
10CHAPTER IV DIVINE LOVE
4II. Neoplatonism
11CHAPTER V SAINTS AND MIRACLES
5III. Gnosticism3
12CHAPTER VI THE UNITIVE STATE
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6IV. Buddhism
13A. General
7CHAPTER I THE PATH
14B. Translations

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