Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Islamic Mysticism: A Comparative Study of…
Mysticism, defined as a direct experience with God that cannot occur through intellectual knowledge, has the potential to offer…
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THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM
THE title of this book sufficiently explains why it is included in a Series 'exemplifying the adventures and labours of…
Tasawwuf (Sufism) or Islamic Mysticism
The word Tasawwuf is Arabic word which means Islamic mysticism. The western scholars prefer to translate the word Tasawwuf as…
Plunging into the wave’s ebb: Sufi words, biographies of humanity
Every culture develops within its own distinctive framework, in which discourses on identity are differently modulated and…
Understanding the Concept of Islamic Sufism
Sufism, being the marrow of the bone or the inner dimension of the Islamic revelation, is the means par excellence whereby…
Islamic Mysticism and the Paradigm of Fitrah
It is expected that in the contemporary world, the amount of desperate need and great optimism could be reasonably considered in…
Female religious agents in Morocco: Old practices and new perspectives
In order to discuss female Moroccan sainthood in Chapter Four, I first will explore some contexts. In this chapter, I will…
Certain Influences of Shaivism and Tantra on the Islamic Mystics
In order to have an integrated understanding of the S´aivite and Tantric influences on certain mystical currents in the Islamic…
REORIENTING SUFISM: HAMKA AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM IN THE MALAY WORLD
This article examines the ideas of a prominent Southeast Asian thinker on Sufism in the Malay World. Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul…
Muslim Saints and Mystics
Farid al-Din Attar, author of the book here presented in an abridged translation, is to be accounted amongst the greatest poets…
Evil and Human Suffering in Islamic Thought—Towards a Mystical Theodicy
This paper sheds light on the treatment of the ‘problem of evil’ and human suffering from an Islamic perspective. I begin by…
MYSTICAL DIMENSIONS OF ISLAM
To writ e abou t Sufism , o r Islami c mysticism, is an almost impossible task. At th e first step , a wide mountain rang e ap -…
Heart’s Life with God Al-Maʿrifa bi-llāh (Knowledge of God) in…
There can be no better way to obtain a good idea of the concept of knowledge among Sufis in the fifth century AH than a careful…
From the Qur’an to the Islamic Humanities: Popular and Written Contexts
Those who write about Islamic "mysticism" for all but specialized scholarly audiences are usually referring to a small selection…
Islamic Mysticism and Neo-Sufism
Following on Professor Boaz Huss’s essay on “The New Age of Kabbalah: Kabbalah and its Contemporary Manifestations,” this essay…
Understanding the Concept of Islamic Sufism
On the origin of the word of Sufi, and its adoption, there are many different opinions among the learned. The following is a…
Islamic Mysticism and the Paradigm of Fitrah
It is expected that in the contemporary world, the amount of desperate need and great optimism could be reasonably considered in…