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| Titre : | What is Sufism ? |
| Auteurs : | Martin Lings, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Londres [GB] : George Allen and Unwin, 19975 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 004297031 |
| Format : | 133 p. / index |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NH/H (Grands courants de l'Islam / Mystique musulmane) |
| Résumé : |
What do the Sufis believe ? What do they aim at? What do they do? Unlike other writers on the subject, Martin Lings treats all three questions with equal justice. He is thus able to give a wealth of answers to the main question, What is Sufism?, each answer being from a different angle but all going to the root of the matter. Here are two examples.
'Nearly 1000 years ago a great Sufi defined Sufism as “taste", because its aim and its end could be summed up as direct knowledge of transcendent truths, such knowledge being, insofar as its directness is concerned, more comparable to the experience of the senses than to mental knowledge.' 'Most Western readers of this book will have heard quite early in life that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you". They will also have heard : "Seek and ye shall find ; knock and it shall be opened unto you". But how many of them have ever received any instruction in the way of seeking or in the art of knocking ? And even as these last four words were being written down, it came to mind that they are, in this given context, an answer to the very question put by our title.' What is Sufism ? not only fills the need for a clear and reliable introduction to Sufism, but it is also unique in its thoroughness, and authoritative. |
| Note de contenu : |
1 The Originality of Sufism 2 The Universality of Sufism 3 The Book 4 The Messenger 5 The Heart 6 The Doctrine 7 The Method 8 The Exclusiveness of Sufism 9 Sufism throughout the Centuries |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| NH/H SOUF 003 | NH/H SOUF 003 | Livre | Compactus | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
