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Title Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qurʼan, Mìraj, poetic and theological writings / translated, edited and with an introduction by Michael A. Sells ; preface by Carl W. Ernst.

Publication Info. New York : Paulist Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  297.4 E12E    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  297.4 E12E c.2  Check Shelf
Description xi, 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The classics of Western spirituality
Classics of Western spirituality.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-385) and indexes.
Subject Sufism -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author Sells, Michael Anthony.
ISBN 0809104776 cloth alkaline paper
0809136198 paperback alkaline paper
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