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Acceptance as an Open Door of Mercy: Riḍā in Islamic Spirituality
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013)
There is no religion that does not start from the premise that "something is rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark," to make use of Hamlet's suggestive expression: mankind has lost its connection with the principle of its being ...
Creation, Originality, and Innovation in Sufi Poetry
(University of California Press, 2011)
Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? Why have the opponents of innovation found their message so ...
Divine Play, Sacred Laughter and Spiritual Understanding
(Palgrave McMillan, 2005)
This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of ...
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998): Life and Teachings
(State University of New York Press, 2004)
The first book in English devoted to the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) to appear since his death, this biography also provides an analysis of his work and spiritual teachings. Relying on Schuon's published ...
L'Eden Entredit: Lecture de La Chanson D'Even de Charles Van Lerberghe
(Peter Land Francophone Belgian Literature Series, 1994)
Cette étude est une lecture détaillée du chef-d'oeuvre du poète symboliste belge Charles Van Lerberghe. L'auteur y étudie les étapes de la quête d'une sagesse édénique: du matin de l'éveil au monde au crépuscule d'une ...
Massignon intérieur.
(L'Age d'Homme, 2001)
Patrick Laude, spécialiste comme Massignon de la civilisation arabe, nous révèle ici un Massignon intérieur dont le grand dessein aura été de rapprocher les deux grandes religions monothéistes de la terre, l’Orient et ...
Louis Massignon: The Vow and the Oath.
(Matheson Trust, 2011)
In-depth exploration of the life and thought of Louis Massignon (1883-1962), a very influential French Islamic scholar and Christian mystic. This is a translation of an original French by an expert on Massignon's life and ...
Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
(World Wisdom, 2004)
A collection of spiritual poetry from antiquity to the present, reflecting many styles and expressions of our experince of the sacred through the medium of poetry. All traditions will be represented, including the great ...
On Blackberry and Beads: Religion in the Matrix of Information Media
(Kalam Verlag für islamische Theologie und Religionspädagogik KG, 2013)
This paper examines the ways in which the demise of the “representational cultures” of religious civilisations has left a vacuum of meaning. This vacuum has opened a battleground between the “religion” of mediatised ...
Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon
(University of New York, 2010)
Pathways to an Inner Islam provides an introduction to the esoteric or spiritual inner Islam presented by Western thinkers Louis Massignon, Henry Corbin, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon. Particularly interested in Sufism ...