"Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (Sohravardi in Persian), known as maqtul (killed) because he was executed in Aleppo in 1191, is a figure of major importance in the development of Iranian and Islamic philosophical mysticism. In this volume, nine of his short symbolic treatises of mixed m…
Essays on Islamic piety and mysticism
by Meier, Fritz
fromIslamic history and civilization
"Fritz Meier (1912-1998) is one of the most outstanding Orientalists of this century. Meier's entire oeuvre is written in German and until now has suffered the fate of not being accessible outside the German-speaking realm. As a result, whole debates on subjects concerning Sufis…
"In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to crit…
"In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to crit…
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