Religious Life - Islam, Doctrine, Islamic, Shi'ism (Islamic sect), Religious Inspiration - General
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Overview
Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit is a concise and remarkably illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throughout nature and of its deepening perfection through all the challenges and lessons of our existence in this world and beyond. This revealing book provides a single vision that draws together those symbolic teachings and spiritual insights familiar to many Western readers today through the classical Sufi poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Attar. The historical context and language of Knowing the Spirit are marked by the confluence of classical Islamic philosophy, Sufi thought, Shiite esotericism, and their scriptural sources. But Elahi's thought integrates those influences and marks them with the magisterial imprint of his own profound spiritual experience and characteristic simplicity, openness, and directness of expression. This translation offers audiences a singular masterpiece of recent Islamic thought and spirituality, opening up fundamental human perspectives and possibilities too often clouded by the distractions of current events. In addition, the emphatic universality of both the subject and presentation of Knowing the Spirit points the way to unsuspected bridges between different civilizations and religious traditions, to the prospect of an inclusive "science of spirituality" based on the common ground of each person's spiritual life and experience.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2007
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pages
144
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791468579