The Sessions of Wisdom
The Extraordinary Life of Al-Qadi al-Nu'man — Scholar, Jurist, and the Man Who Built the Fatimid SoulBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 48m
About this audiobook
Some lives are spent. His was given. You have felt the wish to make something that outlasts you—to give yourself to work that matters more than your name on it.
In tenth-century Cairo, Al-Qadi al-Nu'man lived that life. Over fifty years, he built a legal and spiritual framework so carefully crafted that families still open it today to settle disputes, a thousand years later. He served four Imams and led the Sessions of Wisdom, teaching outer law and inner meaning as one path.
This narrative biography brings to life the man who gave his whole existence to something enduring.
• Meet the scholar who wrote Islamic law's most lasting code
• See the Ismaili vision whole: outer practice and inner meaning as one
• Follow a life given completely to work larger than personal ambition
This is for anyone who has given themselves to something greater, wondering if it would hold.
Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
1411. The Thirty-Year Book
2Epigraph
1512. The First Pillar
3Prologue
1613. The Refutation
41. The City Where the World Was Being Made
1714. Audiences and Rides
52. The Convert's Son
1815. What the Quran Really Says
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63. The Imam Who Changed Everything
1916. The Move to Egypt
74. A Young Man Presents Himself
2017. The Last Year
85. Learning the Hidden Language
2118. The Imam Leads the Prayer
96. The Art of the Lawgiver
2219. The Thousand-Year Law
107. The Years of Silence
2320. What Devotion Builds
118. Chief Judge
24Epilogue
129. The Imam and His Jurist
2521. Author's Note
1310. Sessions of Wisdom
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