A concise introduction to the fundamental doctrines and practices of Sufism, the inward or mystical dimension of Islam. Stoddart provides a key starting point for anyone interested in Sufism, whether for theoretical interest, comparison, or for eventual practice.

Sufism: The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam

Stoddart, William

Religion & Spirituality

Thorsons / Samuel Weiser Inc.

A concise introduction to the fundamental doctrines and practices of Sufism, the inward or mystical dimension of Islam. Stoddart provides a key starting point for anyone interested in Sufism, whether for theoretical interest, comparison, or for eventual practice.

Sufism: The Mystical Doctrines of Islam

Islam

Paragon_House

In this book the author surveys the vast and complex field of Buddhist doctrine, cultural forms and schools, and presents, with clarity and concision, the essential features of the Buddhist religion. In its short format, the book contains a vast amount of information. A useful and engaging introduction for the general reader and an accurate aide-memoire for the student, this work is essential reading for anyone wishign to explore the Buddhist world. It contains illustrations, an index, and a bibliography to guide further reading.

Outline of Hinduism

Foundation for Traditional

In this book the author surveys the vast and complex field of Buddhist doctrine, cultural forms and schools, and presents, with clarity and concision, the essential features of the Buddhist religion. In its short format, the book contains a vast amount of information. A useful and engaging introduction for the general reader and an accurate aide-memoire for the student, this work is essential reading for anyone wishign to explore the Buddhist world. It contains illustrations, an index, and a bibliography to guide further reading.

Outline of Buddhism

The guiding idea of this book has been to gather together sayings, maxims, and aphorisms, which, in some respect or other are of profound and permanent spiritual value. Moreover, the net has been cast wide, with the result that the selected items are extremely variegated; for, in the present age, protective dividing walls have crumbled; the whole world has become our parish, and our gaze must now be universal. The quotations here presented were collected during the course of a lifetime. Each quotation was hand-picked for a particular purpose, and anything deemed superfluous was excluded. Wise and useful quotations are of course endless, but a selection is what it is and, far from being arbitrary, this anthology, taken as a whole, amounts to a succinct, but powerful, affirmation of "the True, the Good, and the Beautiful". This is its purpose-and may it bear fruit.

Invincible Wisdom: Quotations from the Scriptures, Saints, and Sages of All Times and Places

Religious Studies

Sophia Perennis

As a result of Islamic terrorism many people - including some in high places - have quickly come to the conclusion that Islam is a religion of violence and, as such, is the sworn enemy of Christianity and the Western way of life. This may be understandable, but the matter is not quite so simple. This book provides the necessary historical background to the problem, and it does so by supplying a wealth of documentation which powerfully records the amicable and fruitful relations which, over the centuries, have repeatedly manifested themselves between Christianity and Islam. What has gone wrong now? Is it possible that this spirit, once so frequent, can again be recovered - in whole or even in part? On the evidence presented in this book, this would seem to be more than just a pious hope. The Old Testament says: "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee." This book copiously supplies the background knowledge that is needed for our understanding in this age of absurd, cruel, and apparently unending wars.

What do the Religions say about Each Other?: Christian Attitudes Towards Islam, Islamic Attitudes Towards Christianity

Christian Books & Bibles

The spiritual natures of man and woman come to expression in thought, art, craft, and many other domains: from the depths of their soul-spirit constitutions even to the clothes they wear. These natures manifest also in the fullness of love, even unto sexuality, which constitutes an essential and urgent topic of our times, and which harbors also a transcendent dimension, as this book shows. "Extremes meet," says the old adage: in this spirit, the heart of this book consists in showing how the "extremes" of flesh and spirit may join together in the sacralization of love. Providing clear points of reference for safe navigation of the moral wasteland of the modern world, the contributors to this book confront with discernment and courage contemporary views that can undermine the very foundations of civilization."There is perhaps no field more desacralized today than that of human love. The contemporary reader will discover in this volume of essays by Traditionalist authors a richness and a depth of view that counteracts the various forms of sexual reductionism of modernity."--Patrick Laude, author of the forthcoming Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence"In this unique, fascinating work masters of the Perennial Philosophy such as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, and William Stoddart, together with a new generation of writers, present their insights and conclusions regarding the place of love and sexuality in our spiritual life."--Nuno Almeida, professor at the University of Lisbon"If, as has been said, virtue is the natural state of the soul as God intended it to be, the Fall is the accidental remoteness from such a state. Now, sapiential esoterism has always been there to restore this natural state, and the essays in this collection are aimed at just such a restoration."--Mehrdad M. Zarandi, editor of Science and the Myth of Progress"No topic could be more timely than that of sexuality, and none more misunderstood--for those who celebrate sexual aberrations in our time seem unaware that they are toying with the twin pillars upholding civilization. The contributors to this volume offer us an impressive array of the missing reference points that are almost unfindable elsewhere."--Mark Perry, author of The Mystery of Individuality: Grandeur and Delusion of the Human Condition

Alchemy of Love: Sexuality & the Spiritual Life

Burckhardt, Titus

HANI, JEAN

Bina, Mahmoud

Ziarani, Alireza K.

de Azevedo, Mateus Soares

Salem, Elias B.

Schuon,Frithjof

Invincible Wisdom: Quotations from the Scriptures, Saints, and Sages of All Times and Places, Revised & Augmented Edition

Independently published

Annotations: Philosophical, Religious, Cultural, Historical / The Early British Perennialist Authors

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