This is a very old book written by the great Sufi saint Hazrat Moinuddin Hasan Sanjari of Ajmer (1141-1236) the advice and discourses to his special caliph Khwaja Bakhtiar Kaki which were translated from Persian into the Urdu language and for the first time I have translated this book into English. This translation of the most ancient and celebrated Persian book on Sufism will, I hope, be found useful not only for the number of students familiar with the subject at first hand but also by many readers. In this magazine one another magazine "Haft Maktubat " (The seven letters ) by Hadrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti is also added for the readers response for reading many secrets the spiritualism and as well as mystic knowledge in the light of the sayings of the last prophet of Allah and Quranic advises. This is a small magazine in which there are advice and instructions especially for a taleb (student) and it refers to a person who is committed to a Murshid (spiritual master) in a tariqa (spiritual path) of Sufism and is also known as a salik (Arabic: سَالِك). A mureed is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism, and all these details of advice by the great Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Sanjari of Ajmare are included in this book. There are also some great achievements mentioned in this book which is not known to the general public published in a very interesting style, so readers will find great interest and attention in this.
This is a very old book written by the great Sufi saint Hazrat Moinuddin Hasan Sanjari of Ajmer (1141-1236) the advice and discourses to his special caliph Khaja Bakhtiar Kaki which were translated from Persian into the Urdu language and for the first time I have translated this book into English. This translation of the most ancient and celebrated Persian book on Sufism will, I hope, be found useful not only for the number of students familiar with the subject at first hand but also by many readers. In this magazine one other magazine HAFT MAKTUBAT which was also written by Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti is also added in the beginning to the reader's response to reading many secrets of the spiritualism and as well as mystic knowledge in the light of the sayings of the last prophet of Allah and Quranic advises. This is a small magazine in which there are advice and instructions, especially for a Taleb (student) and it refers to a person who is committed to a Murshid (spiritual master) in a Tariqa (spiritual path) of Sufism and is also known as a Salik (Arabic: سَالِك). A Mureed is an initiate into the mystic philosophy of Sufism, and all these details of advice by the great Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Sanjari of Ajmare are included in this book. There are also some great achievements mentioned in this book which is not known to the general public published in a very interesting style, so readers will find great interest and attention in this. Once a person starts reading this book's first page he will not stop reading it till he reaches its last page, as some interesting events, as well as great miracles and endeavours, are mentioned in this book of holy saints who have passed away from the world some 800 years ago. Even though this is a small book, but its importance is so great due to coverage of many interesting events and positive information in it for the guidance of people towards the right path of Islam, so it is like an ocean of knowledge and information of holy saints who have passed away from the world after doing great endeavours and many hard tasks for the preaching and propagation of Islam in foreign lands. This book is edited and formatted as per the great book Muslim Saints and Mystics (Tadhkirtal Aliyah by Farid-al-din Attar) which is very famous in the Western world among English-speaking persons. So there will be some small differences in it while comparing with Urdu books and literature. The aim of this magazine is to present it to the Western world where there is great demand for books of Sufism and biographies of holy saints who lived and spent their entire lives for the preaching and propagation of the Islamic religion in all corners of the world as per the tradition and practice of Allah's last prophet. To write about this great author is not only difficult,t but a very hard task as he was not only a great and pious personality of his time in India but was also a great author of many books. Hadrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishtī authored several books including * Anees ul Arwah* Kashful Asrar* Ganj ul Asrar* Risala Aafaq wa Nafs* Risala e Tasawwuf Manzum* Risala e Mojudia* Hadees ul Ma'arif* Israr-e- Haqiqi and all these books which deal with the Islamic code of living. So, in brief, he was the Hind al-Wali (the Saint of India) of his time in the Indian subcontinent who did many great endeavors for the preaching and propagation of Islam in Ajmer city with hopes of its expansion to other adjoining and distant territories and there was no other such personality during his time. His mausoleum is in Ajmer city which is famous even today for the fulfillment of desires and wishes of the persons who visit his grave there.
Using hitherto unstudied sources, this monograph provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of the ethical theory of al-Rāzī, one of the most complex and influential medieval philosophers and theologians. It reveals remarkable and previously unidentified aspects of ethical thought in Islam.
Kashf-ul-Asrar, literally means “Revelation of The Divine Secrets”. As the title implies, this subtle treatise is a collection of revealed Divine Secrets, described in a very precise and compact manner. This small but great book by the most eminent Saint of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo is a proof of his literary faculty and command over words in addition to his expertise as a Divine Scholar. For online reading please visit http://sultan-ul-faqr-publications.com/ Contact # +923224722766 #sultanbahoo #sultanularifeen #sultanulashiqeen #abyatebahookamil #abyatebahoo #nurulhudakalan #kaleedultauheedkalan #shamsulfuqara #ameerulkaunain #mohkimulfuqara #qurbedeedar #sultanbahoobooks #sultanbahoobooksinenglish sultanbahoobooksinurdu #risalaroohisharif #kashfulasrar #ganjulasrar #sirulasrar #ainulfaqr #sufismthesoulofislam #risalaghausia #shamsularifeen #sultanulwaham #haqbahoosultan #bahoosultan #haqbahusultan #sultanbahu #bahusultan #hazratsultanbahoo #hazratsultanbahu #sakhisultanbahoo #sakhisultanbahu
First published in 1986. This volume brings together five lectures which were originally delivered at different sessions of the famous Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzer□land. Henry Corbin himself had outlined the plan for this book, whose title suggests that these diverse studies converge on a common spiritual centre.
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India. Working through the limits of both Marxism and postcolonial critique, this book forges an innovative approach to the question of late romanticism and grounds categories such as the sublime within the dynamic of commodification. While G. S. Sahota takes canonical European critics such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to the outskirts of empire, he reads Indian writers such as Muhammad Iqbal and Jayashankar Prasad in light of the expansion of instrumental rationality and the neotraditional critiques of the West it spurred at the onset of decolonization. By bringing together distinct literary canons—both metropolitan and colonial, hegemonic and subaltern, Western and Eastern, all of which took shape upon the common realities of imperial capitalism—Late Colonial Sublime takes an original dialectical approach. It experiments with fragments, parallaxes, and constellational form to explore the aporias of modernity as well as the possible futures they may signal in our midst. A bold intervention into contemporary debates that synthesizes a wealth of sources, this book will interest readers and scholars in world literature, critical theory, postcolonial criticism, and South Asian studies.
This publication examines art, the human sciences, science, philosophy, mysticism, language and literature. For this task, UNESCO has chosen scholars and experts from all over the world who belong to widely divergent cultural and religious backgrounds.--Publisher's description.
Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the “Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge,” and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam applies that theory to plurality and the historicity of understanding and interpretation of religion, this book captures some of his original theories about religion itself. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience treats the historicity of the Prophet Muhammad’s revelatory experience, including human and contextual influences on the genesis of the sacred Text. It presents substantial aspects of Soroush’s Neo-Rationalist hermeneutical project for an Islamic reformed theology and ethics, systematically leading Islamic reformation beyond conventional projects of piecemeal adjustments to the Shariʿah or selective re-interpretations of the Qurʾān.
In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an Istanbul library of the manuscript of a Persian translation of and commentary on Avicenna's Hayy ibn Yaqzan, written in Arabic, led him to an analysis of three of Avicenna's mystical "recitals." These form an initiatory cycle leading the adept along the path of spiritual progress. In Part I Corbin summarizes the great themes that show the philosophical situation of Avicennan man in the cosmos and presents translations of these three great Avicennan recitals. Part II is a complete translation, with notes, of the Persian commentary. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
