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The Mosque: The Heart of Submission (Abrahamic Dialogues) 2 reviews
Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, William Chittick
Fordham University Press, 2006
A 'must' for any who would understand modern Islamic sentiments
The Mosque: The Heart Of Submission could have been featured in our Spirituality section, but is reviewed here for its central importance in any consideration of Muslim thinking, religious or otherwise. Mahmutcehajic surveys ways in which the mosque differs from the Christian church, considering its unique place in Muslim tradition as a stand-alone image without an institutionalized hierarchy. It ...
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The Meccan Revelations, volume I4 reviews
Ibn al'Arabi, Michel Chodkiewicz, ...
Pir Press, 2002
Pioneer translations of Sheikh al Akbar's Futuhat
The Meccan Revelations: Selected texts from the Al-Futuhat al-Makkiya Volume 1 by M. Ibn Arabi, edited by Michel Chodkiewicz, new introduction by James W. Morris, English translations by William Chittick and James W. Morris (Pir Press) Perhaps no mystic in the history of the world has delved as deeply into the inner knowledge that informs our being as did Ibn 'Arabi. He was born into the cultural ...
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The Elixir of the Gnostics: A parallel English-Arabic text (Islamic Translation Series)1 review
Mulla Sadra
Brigham Young University, 2002
This is some of the best Islamic philsophy
This book is presented beautifully with the side by side English and Arabic Text. The print is beautiful, and for pure aesthetic value Chittick has put together a masterpiece. This is Islam at its best and a chance to peer into the minds of one of Islams most enligthened and undervalued philosophers. Sadras Falsafah has largely been eclisped by the works of the greats but many scholars of ...
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The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Perennial Philosophy)2 reviews
William C. Chittick
World Wisdom, 2007
A Beautiful Book
This is an absolutely beautiful book. Although it might be called a primer, it is deep and rich and filled with sentences that make you stop and ponder and contemplate the wonders of the inward and outward aspects of the Divine. The chapter on love and beauty alone is pure gold. What I also liked about Dr. Nasr's narrative is his respect and appreciation for other mystical traditions, both ...
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Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (SUNY series in Islamic spirituality)8 reviews
State Univ of New York Pr, 1983
Rumi, a great master
This is a good book on explaining some of the poems of the great mystic Rumi. I somewhat disagree with the authors choice of title. many great sufis refrained calling themselves sufi, after the movement became popularized and took a different color. Sufi orders sprung up like mushroom and every group claimed to follow a great mystic figure, like Rumi. one often wonders if Rumi and his like ...
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The Name and the Named1 review
Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti
Fons Vitae, 2000
Beautiful and Inspiring
I'm currently reading this book...and I highly recommend it. A simplistic and inspiring reading it is.
What this book is about: The significance of each of the 99 names of Allah swt. This book goes a step beyond a mere definition, but rather expounds on how each name is an attribute of Allah and thereby a reflection on to us. Prophet Adam was first taught and bestowed upon all of Allah's ...
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Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-Yu¬s Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih¬s Displaying the ...2 reviews
Sachiko Murata, Jami, ...
State University of New York Press, 2000
First book of its kind
An original work that fills an unknown gap of Islam in China. Excellent, also includes a translation of Jami's Lawaih.
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Merton & Sufism: The Untold Story: A Complete Compendium (The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series)1 review
Fons Vitae, 1999
Christian mind at its Best!
This is a well written book about a deeply spiritual man. This book is about a monk spiritual journey. A journey that took him to many alien ideas and cultures. In his quest and search for the Real, he refused to disregard other revealed religions and what they can offer in a complete sense of spirituality. His search led him to contact Muslims as well as Muslims saints and other well known ...
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge7 reviews
William C. Chittick
State University of New York Press, 1989
The Best Work on Ibn Arabi's Non-Dualistic Cosmology to Date
Ibn Arabi is not easy reading. By far the best and most comprehensive book to date is this one -- perhaps Chittick's most important work yet. SPK is primarily a collection of translations from various sections of Ibn Arabi's greatest work, the Meccan Revelations, and is structured more as an anthology. Chittick puts in his own commentary here and there which helps decode the complexity of some of ...
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Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi5 reviews
Shams-i Tabrizi
Fons Vitae, 2004
long-awaited Autobiography - Shams, the strange Companion
"When a sincere man begins to dance,
the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance." - Shams
Little did we know about Shams Tabrizi, except that he was the enigmatic master of Maulana Jalalludin Rumi. Now we may get an inside picture through this wonderful autobiography, translated by a thorough scholar (William Chittick). Moreover, it may correct certain childish ...
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The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn Al-'Arabi's Cosmology (Suny Series in Islam) 6 reviews
William C. Chittick
State University of New York Press, 1997
Detailed Translations by a Leading Akbarian Specialist
"This is what shows you His Omnipotence, Exalted be He; that He hides himself from you by that which has no existence outside of Him" -- Ibn Ata'allah Chittick is refining the art of translating Ibn Arabi. Unlike other medieval Arabic texts that are more or less straightforward -- hence translatable -- Ibn Arabi is an exception. The anti-systematic nature of his thought compounded by its deep ...
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Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) 3 reviews
William Chittick
Paulist Press, 1982
a love theory divine
Iraqi chilled with the best of 'em. a dervish that wandered into the same konya that was home to Rumi. a student of Rumi's friend Sadruddin Qunyawi(disciple to Ibn Arabi). Iraqi's Flashes are the synthesis of Ibn Arabi's metaphysics and the love theory from Ahmed Ghazali's Sawanih(the oldest persian work on sacred love by Abu Hamid Ghazali's younger and more mystical bro). while Chittick's great ...
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The Vision of Islam35 reviews
Sachiko Murata, William Chittick
I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2006
Best Book for new converts to islam
I'm so glad I was able to read this book after converting to Islam. It's like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. My life and my entire existance seems to have a true meanning now. I truely feel like this is the religion that I have been searching for all my life. It has the best of all religions combined in one. And after reading this book and understanding the true meaning of islam I ...
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Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World5 reviews
William C. Chittick
Oneworld Publications, 2007
A great favour to islamic tradition
I've just finished reading this fabulous work of W. Chittick and I think that he has reached his purpose; it' a really inspiring book which oneself to reflect about Islam, its tradition and what it is its object.
I have read some books of W. Chittick, including Sufi Path of Knowledge, The Self Disclosure of God, Imaginal Worlds, and his quality as translator shows his great compression about ...
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Imaginal Worlds (Suny Series in Islam)4 reviews
William C. Chittick
State University of New York Press, 1994
one of the best introductions to the thought of Ibn 'Arabi
William Chittick is one of the most important contemporary authorities on Islamic philosophy and esoterism, and Ibn 'Arabi in particular. He has devoted immense volumes to the "Greatest Master" of Islamic esoterism, which discuss Ibn 'Arabi's views on Revelation, gnosis, metaphysics, ontology, cosmology, and everything else under the sun.
This short volume deals with some of the most ...
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Sufism10 reviews
William Chittick
Oneworld Publications, 2000
A great introduction
Sufism, although specific to Islam, is in reality the unifying meaning beneath all of God's religions. Chittick's introduction is a great survey of the Sufi way of looking at reality especially since he takes the perspective of the great masters and mostly lets them tell us what Sufism is all about. Translations of Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi and some lesser know masters such as Sam'ani are included. I ...
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The Psalms of Islam1 review
Imam Zayn Al Abidin
Foundation of Islamic Cultural, 1987
Beautiful traditional Islamic prayers
When you come across a collection of prayers attributed to one of the 12 Imams and translated by William Chittck you know you cant go wrong. This hardback edition has the English translation with the Arabic on the opposite page. I dont know if Sunni Muslims are put off thinking this is a 'Shia' book but they realy shouldnt be as this is a collection of prayers and nothing more.
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American Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis
William O. Chittick
CQ Press, 2006
Most people fall victim to the erroneous assumption that, even in democracies, the public has no significant voice in foreign policy and little hope of understanding the decision-making process. American Foreign Policy, the first book to present American foreign policy in full historical context, overturns that assumption. Chittick introduces an original model that becomes the basis for a concise yet comprehensive framework that the reader can ...
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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts (Suny Series in Islam)2 reviews
State University of New York Press, 1992
Spiritual quest for origin.
It is a great book to read especially for those who are not satisfied with merely ritual of islam.Rituals are structure (a building) and spiritual teaching of Mohammed(pbuh) is foundation, which sufis explore. Those who have a inner seach for truth ,life ,seeking spiritual elevation while living in this world must read this book. Sufism is a spiritual quest ,journey through which we try to ...
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Ibn Arabi (Makers of the Muslim World) 2 reviews
William C. Chittick
Oneworld Publications, 2007
Superlative Book on Ibn 'Arabi by Chittick
William Chittick has just written what I believe will soon be regarded as the best book on Ibn 'Arabi that has yet been published in English. This is quite a feat, given the numbers of books that have been written about Ibn 'Arabi, especially in recent years. Having studied Ibn 'Arabi for the last 30 years, Chittick boils down Ibn 'Arabi's viewpoint in this new book, titled, *Ibn 'Arabi: Heir to ...
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