The definitive work on the spiritual Islamic heritage of Spain.

Moorish Culture in Spain

Travel

Burckhardt, Titus

Europe

Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia)

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Moorish culture in Spain

McGraw=Hill

Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

Spiritual attainment has frequently been described as a transformation whereby a human's leaden, dull nature is returned to its golden state. This wonderfully insightful volume introduces some of the metaphors useful for establishing attitudes required for the soul's advancement: trust, confidence, hope, and detachment. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution, it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new, possibly higher and more noble form.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Age of Reason saw in alchemy nothing but a form of primitive chemistry, whose practitioners laboured in a rather utopian fashion to change base metal into gold. This super-rational viewpoint came to be the one most widely accepted, despite the reiteration of the alchemists themselves that their work referred to an inner process, and that the use of metallurgical terminology was not to be taken literally. In fact, an intelligent study of the symbolic language of alchemy, in comparison with similar 'arts' still practised today in the East, does reveal clearly a spiritual method whose aim is to become conscious of a timeless inner Reality. It is man himself who is the dull, raw lead, which, by means of a gradual refining process can become Gold of the Sun, a process understood as a rediscovery of the primal condition of the soul which rests in the timeless being of consciousness. That alchemy takes its form and beginnings from a natural mineral art cannot be contested. On the contrary, this stems from the very vision of the alchemist in which man and the cosmos, the inner and outer aspects of nature, are seen related together as images of one another. This universal vision is the key to alchemical symbolism, which is found to reveal unsuspected spiritual horizons. In this volume the author tries to show the true alchemical vision and how true symbols are a manifestation of the very mind of nature, through which one may come to an understanding of the material universe.

Stuart and Watkins

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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

Thorsons

An Introduction to Sufism: The Mystical Dimension of Islam

Borgo Pr

Mirror of the Intellect (Suny Series in Islam)

Titus Burckhardt was Swiss and an eminent member of the traditionalist school. He is perhaps best known to the English-speaking public as the author of the following books: Sacred Art in East and West; Siena, City of the Virgin; Moorish Culture in Spain; and Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. A generation ago, he won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful, full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells and other ancient manuscripts. In more recent years, he acted as a specialist advisor to UNESCO, with particular reference to the preservation of the unique architectural heritage of Fez, which was then in danger.The present volume is a complete collection of Burckhardt’s essays, originally published in a variety of German and French journals. They range from modern science in its various forms, through Christianity and Islam, to symbolism and mythology. It is a rich collection. Burckhardt blends an accessible style with a penetrating insight. He interprets the metaphysical, cosmological, and symbolic dimensions of these sacred traditions from the perspective of timeless, spiritual wisdom.

Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art (Suny Islam)

State University of New York Press

Titus Burckhardt was Swiss and an eminent member of the traditionalist school. He is perhaps best known to the English-speaking public as the author of the following books: Sacred Art in East and West; Siena, City of the Virgin; Moorish Culture in Spain; and Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. A generation ago, he won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful, full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells and other ancient manuscripts. In more recent years, he acted as a specialist advisor to UNESCO, with particular reference to the preservation of the unique architectural heritage of Fez, which was then in danger. The present volume is a complete collection of Burckhardt’s essays, originally published in a variety of German and French journals. They range from modern science in its various forms, through Christianity and Islam, to symbolism and mythology. It is a rich collection. Burckhardt blends an accessible style with a penetrating insight. He interprets the metaphysical, cosmological, and symbolic dimensions of these sacred traditions from the perspective of timeless, spiritual wisdom.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

State Univ of New York Pr

Description of the themes of the great doorways and rose windows covers virtually the whole Christian story.

Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral

Golgonooza Press

Known as an expert on Islam, Sufism, and Islamic arts & crafts, Burckhardt presents in-depth analyses of seminal examples of Islamic architecture, from Spain and Morocco to Persia and India. He examines Koranic calligraphy and illumination, arabesque, carpets and rugs, Persian miniatures, and much more while making illuminating comparisons with Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist art. Beautifully illustrated in color, this masterpiece is presented in a revised, commemorative edition containing 285 new illustrations and a new Introduction.

Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (English and French Edition)

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Moorish Culture in Spain

Moorish culture in Spain

Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

Introduction to Sufi Doctrine

An Introduction to Sufism: The Mystical Dimension of Islam

Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art (Suny Islam)

Mirror of the Intellect (Suny Series in Islam)

Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral

Art of Islam: Language and Meaning (English and French Edition)