| Book Title | The Mystics Of Islam |
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| Total Pages | 145 |
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The Mystics of Islam
THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM
The Mystics of Islam, first published in 1914, has long been
recognized as a classic and defining introduction to the message of Sufism. In this short but comprehensive work, R.A. Nicholson—who was one of the greatest Islamic scholars of the early 20th century and an early translator of Rumi’s Mathnawi —provides the general reader with an accessible approach to the vast world of Islamic mysticism.
He gives a broad outline of Sufism and describes the key principles, methods and characteristic features of the inner life as it has been lived by contemplative Muslims of every class and condition from the 8th century onwards.
Many quotations are given, mainly in the author’s own expert and beautiful translations from the original Arabic and Persian.
The great value of this book can be appreciated in the simplicity of its presentation and in the beauty of its content.
Nicholson writes with the refined sensitivity of a poet and the sympathy of a scholar who has profoundly understood his subject.
What is Sufism? Down through the centuries many of its adherents have attempted to answer that question, and the reader will find many of their answers inside the pages of this book.
Nicholson himself comes to the conclusion that there are nearly as many definitions of Sufism as there are writers who attempt to define it.
One definition, offered many years after Nicholson’s book, seems to encompass all these in the simplest possible terms, so we will give it here:
Sufism is to discern between the Real and the unreal, to con¬ centrate the soul upon the Real, and to bring the soul to conform to the Real.
These amount to the three great pillars of doctrine, method and virtue found in all authentic
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