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  • A Scent of Sandalwood

    Indo-Ismaili Religious Lyrics

    by Aziz Esmail ...
    The Ginans are religious lyrics which have long been a central part of the religious life of the Indian Mizari Ismaili community (known as Khojas), and continue to form their living poetic tradition. Aziz Esmail's translation is suggestive of the depth of religious thought, feeling and imagination out of which this poetry was born, and the lyrical beauty of the form in which this experience found ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Construction of Belief

    Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun

    Edited by Aziz Esmail, Abdou Filali-Ansary ...
    Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic Studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism. This Festschrift honours Arkoun AZs scholarship, ... Read more

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  • The Garden of Truth

    Knowledge, Love, and Action

    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment, insisting rather on the love of God as the only valid form of adoration. Sufism has made ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Sufis

    by Idries Shah ...
    The Sufis is the best introduction ever written to the philosophical and mystical school traditionally associated with the Islamic world.Powerful, concise, and intensely thought-provoking, it sums up over a thousand years of Eastern thought - the product of some of the greatest minds humanity has ever produced - into a single work, presenting timeless ideas in a fresh and contemporary style.When ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way of the Sufi

    by Idries Shah ...
    The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. The author begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes to Sufi ideas, and evidence of their absorption into medieval Christianity, Hinduism, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning How to Learn

    by Idries Shah ...
    Sufi thought has been made easily available to the West thanks to the books Idries Shah.But is merely wanting to learn about it enough?What kind of preparation does a potential student of Sufism need to have to benefit from what Shah’s writings offer?Learning How To Learn is a crucial book for readers wishing to approach the Sufi Way. In it, Shah uses much of the language of Western psychology - ... Read more

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  • A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    A revelatory collection of essays and poems by a master of Eastern philosophyIn these writings, Gibran offers verses and lyric prose that possess all the grandeur of rich music. Here are the great truths and heartening joys drawn from the tears and sufferings of man. Each work sparkles with simile and symbolism, from "Seven Reprimands,"containing wise rules to live by, to "The Sayings of the Brook ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Perfumed Scorpion

    by Idries Shah ...
    A Perfumed ScorpionThe 'perfuming of a scorpion', referred to by the great Sufi teacher Bahaudin, symbolizes hypocrisy and self-deception: both in the individual and in institutions.In A Perfumed Scorpion, Idries Shah directs attention to both the perfume and the scorpion - the overlay and the reality - in psychology, human behaviour and the learning process.Crammed with illustrative anecdotes ... Read more

    $4.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wings of Thought

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Joseph P. Ghougassian ...
    A critical exploration of the life's work of one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers and poets, Kahlil GibranThrough his fiction, essays, poems, and art, Kahlil Gibran inspired a devoted international following and transformed modern Arabic literature. In this book, Joseph P. Ghougassian brings together the philosophical elements present across Gibran's diverse writings, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sufi Thought and Action

    by Idries Shah ...
    Previously published only as separate essays, Sufi Thought and Action - assembled and introduced by Idries Shah - covers an extraordinary diversity of Sufi ideas and activities in many countries and cultures.Included in the volume are papers on Sufi Principles and Learning Methods; Ritual, Initiation and Secrets in Sufi Circles; and Key Concepts in Sufi Understanding.The volume stands as a clear ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Sacred and Secular Desire

    An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided between India and Pakistan, and stamped Greek cultural and linguistic influence on the region. Over the centuries the lure of the Punjab attracted ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Need For a Sacred Science

    by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today. ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD