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| Author | : Omar Michael Burke |
| Publisher | : Octagon Press, Limited |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
O.M. Burke's first-hand account of his modern-day pilgrimage begins in a school built like a medieval rock fortress hidden in northern India. From there he takes the reader to monasteries where ancient lore is still taught, along the pilgrim road to forbidden Mecca, and into the heart and mind of Asia. Burke's experiences with living Sufis and their teachings, practices, and actions clearly dispel the notion of Sufism as a phenomenon of the past.
| Author | : Alexandre Papas |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2019-06-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004402020 |
Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.
| Author | : Ayad Akhtar |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2012-01-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316192821 |
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
| Author | : Robert Irwin |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2011-04-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1847654045 |
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.
| Author | : Jennifer Ferraro |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
For the first time in English, this collection presents a compilation of seven centuries of the mystic hymns of Turkey's rebellious Sufi poets, the popular folk counterparts to Rumi whose poems are characterised by a passionate and unorthodox commitment to Truth. At the time Rumi was writing in ancient Anatolia, many other great mystics in the region were also composing wild, ecstatic and controversial poems which were circulated among the people as spiritual songs (called 'nefes' and 'illahis') still played and sung today in sacred dervish ceremonies and gatherings. These poems were meant to swiftly and easily penetrate the heart of the spiritual aspirant whether educated or uneducated, and awaken the human heart to its divine inheritance. These poems present a spiritual tradition from the Islamic world which bravely challenged orthodox religion and emphasised universal mystic love and tolerance.
| Author | : AA: VV: |
| Publisher | : Mimesis |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2024-03-08T00:00:00+01:00 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 8869774716 |
The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring together a classical orientalist approach, based on texts and written documents, with the approach typical of Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, based on research in the field and oral sources: the ethnographic study of the present sheds new light on practices, methods and theories exposed in treatises of the Past while, at the same time, practices of the present may be clarified and illuminated by the study of ancient Sufi texts and authors. These different approaches want to draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by “tasawwuf” (Sufism) both in its historical and social context and in its nontemporal aspect, concerning spirituality and the ways the latter is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and present.
| Author | : Demi |
| Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780761455271 |
A biography af the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.
| Author | : Idries Shah |
| Publisher | : Octagon Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Sufi parables |
| ISBN | : 0900860472 |
A mysterious chest is buried unopened. A wondrous caravan brings fortune to a simple cobbler. An outcast princess creates a new life in the wilderness. Some of the 78 tales in this remarkable book first appeared in print over a thousand years ago; others are medieval classics. Yet each has a special relevance for us at the dawn of the 21st century. All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes. These are teaching stories in the Sufi tradition. Those who probe beyond the surface will find multiple meanings to challenge assumptions and foster new ways of thinking and perceiving. Tales of the Dervishes is essential reading for anyone interested in Sufi thought, the significance and history of tales, or simply superb entertainment.
| Author | : Shems Friedlander |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780791411551 |
Sufism is the esoteric aspect of Islam. Its purpose is to convey direct knowledge of the eternal. The Sufis impart knowledge through lineages that go back to the Prophet Muhammud. In these various Sufi orders, the zikr, the repetition of "la illaha illa'llah" (There is no God but God), is part of initiation ceremonies. In fact, the method of the Sufis is zikr, and the manner in which zikr is performed is the essential difference among the various orders. The Dervishes repeat their zikr as they turn. They empty their hearts of all but the thought of God and whirl in the ecstatic movements of His breath.
| Author | : William Seabrook |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
| ISBN | : |
