Description: The editor wishes to thank the following for permission to reprint the material included in this volume: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.—for selection from F. Rahman, Prophecy in Islam [London, 1959]; and The Macmillan Company (New York) for select
Description: Khwaja Samsu d-Din Muḥammad Hafez-e Shirazi, known by his pen name Hafez (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-Fourteenth Century Persian writing more than an...
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Description: This is a slightly fictionalized account of life in Persia (Iran) in the 19th century, capped off by a perilous pilgrimage to the Shiite holy city of Meshed (Mashhad), in the foothills of the mountains that run up to the Zoroastrian Olympus
Description: Translation of Mubase-i mezhebye
Description: Articles: God; Nature; The Personal Being; Dual Aspect; Worship; Truth; The Sufis; Self-knowledge; Love; Perfection; Prophets; Sufism; Sufi Training; Manifestation; Interest And Indifference; Spirit And Matter; The Heart And Soul; Intellect And Wisdom; Dreams And Inspirations; Law Of Action; Music Among Sufis; Ecstasy; Concentration; Male And Female Aspects Of God
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Description: A Maqama (plural, Maqamat) is an Arabic rhymed prose literary form, with short poetic passages. Maqama is from a root which means 'he stood,' and in this case it means to stand in a literary discussion in order to orate. The two classical exponents of the Maqama were Hamadhani (967-1007), the composer of this work, and the later and better-known Hariri (1054-1122). Hamadhani was born in Hamadhan, the ancient Ecbatana, in what is now Iran (to the southwest o...
Description: Muhammad Iqbal (b. Nov. 9, 1877, d. Apr. 21, 1938) was a prominent Islamic writer and politician. Born in the Raj, Cambridge educated, Iqbal is both the the intellectual founder of Pakistan, and its national poet. This poem was composed in Pe
A prominent Islamic
Description: THE MISHKÂT AL-ANWAR is a work of extreme interest from the viewpoint of al-Ghazzâlî's[2] inner life and esoteric thought. The glimpses it gives of that life and thought are remarkably, perhaps uniquely, intimate. It begins where his autobiog