Entries by Tony Soprano
Bidayat Al-Hidaya by Imam Al-Ghazali
Beginning of Guidance By Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali. Translated by M. Abul Quasem
Muhammad as the Pole of Existence – Carl W. Ernst
Muhammad as the Pole of Existence
The Wine Song (Khamriyyah) of Ibn Al-Farid
The Wine Song of Ibn Farid Shaykh Umar Ibn al-Farid was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic law, and a teacher of Hadith. His poetry is considered by many to be the the very height of Arabic Sufi literature.
The Tawasin of Mansur Al-Hallaj
The Tawasin of Mansur al-Hallaj
The Mystic Rose Garden (Gulshan i Raz) by Mahmud Shabistari
The Mystic Rose Garden The Gulshan i Raz is a collection of poems written in 1317 A.D. (717 A.H.) by Shaykh Sa’ad Al-Din Mahmud Shabistari in the mathnawi form. It is considered to be one of the greatest Persian works of Sufism. The poem is in response to a series of fifteen questions on Sufism asked of Shabistari by […]
The Garden of Fragrance (Bustan) of Sadi
The Garden of Fragrance The Bustan is a book of poetry by the the great Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi. Written in the mathnawi style it was completed in 1257.
Islamic Art and Spirituality
Islamic Art and Spirituality By Seyyed Hossein Nasr Islamic Art has been the subject of study by Western scholars since the nineteenth century and by Western-trained Muslim savants for several decades. It has, moreover, come to receive special attention during the past two or three decades by the larger public as a distinct category […]
Response to Stephen Hawking’s Physics-as-Philosophy
Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies, Volume 16, No 2, 2011, pp. 5-48. The Grand Design,1 to be sure, is not simply another “Physics for the Millions” production, nor is Stephen Hawking, its primary author, just another scientist addressing the public at large. What stands at issue is rather to be seen as the crossing of […]
An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines
An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines CONCEPTIONS OF NATURE AND METHODS USED FOR ITS STUDY BY THE IKHW AN AL-~AFA’, AL-BIRUNI, AND IBN SINA This study opens up a relatively unexplored, hence unfamiliar, aspect of Islam. The ~ajority of mo?ern Muslim ration~lists will no doubt join in chorus with the formalist orthodox theologians to […]
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective by Seyyed Hossein Nasr “O Mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female… The noblest among you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct.” (Quran 49:13) The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective
A Sufi Approach to Religious Diversity: Ibn al-‘Arabi on the Metaphysics of Revelation
A Sufi Approach to Religious Diversity – Ibn al-Arabi on the Metaphysics of Revelation by William Chittick