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Rumi (1207-1273) was a Persian jurist and theologian best known widely translated and remains especially popular in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Though written from a Sufi perspective, Rumi's poems on spiritual growth - here collected and edited by...

يمثل الحوار ركنا أساسيًا من أركان الدعوة الإسلامية؛ ولأهميته تكررت الآيات القرآنية الداعية إليه، فأصبح الحوار مع أهل الكتاب مسؤولية دعوية ملقاة على عواتق المسلمين، ذلك الحوار المبني على التسامح والهادف إلى كل غرض نبيل، فهناك أصل يجمع أتباع الديانات...

ABOUT THE BOOK:al-Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī fī bilād al-Ṣomāl: judhūruhu wa taṭawwuruh is a book that deals with the roots and development of the al-Shāfiʿī school of thought in the Somali peninsula. It also explores the well the efforts of some Somali scholars...

The Nasiri Du'aThis supplication has been tried, tested and proven to relieve distress and to avert difficult situations, especially when they are societal and concern the affairs of all the Muslims. The people of Fez call it "The Sword of Ibn Nasir"...

Do you command it?Or does it command you?The commanding self is the bundle of conditioned responses that we need to survive – but which holds most of us prisoner. Psychology and personal development are only just beginning to catch up with...

This is a much acclaimed text that is now available in the English language known in Farsi as 'Tarhe Kulliye Andisheye Islami Dar Quran'.This book presents the theological thoughts of a young Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei before the victory of the...

This is the first exhaustive work of one of Islams most influential figures. He is the leader and founder of the most populace Sufi Tariqas in the Islamic world. He is the Hidden Pole, Seal of Muhammadan Sainthood...Shaykh Ahmad Tijani (RA).

The internal struggle. Recommendations for religious students and seminaries. Importance of purifying the soul. Knowledge and faith. Includes advice on how to benefit from the blessed month of Ramadhan and the fasting and devotion therein.

Short biographies of the 14 Masumeens which include the Prophet, his daughter and the 12 Imams.

Stories from the personal and public life of the great scholar and leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Includes stories about Imam Khomeini's home life, his relationship with family members and with the public, his knowledge, his worship and his...

Salman al-Farsi This is a story of a seeker of Truth, the story of Salman the Persian, gleaned, to begin with, from his own words: I grew up in the town of Isfahan in Persia in the village of Jayyan. My father was the Dihqan or chief of the village. He...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Many of Gurdjieff adepts would like to know where and how Gurdjieff discovered the wisdom of the East that he joined to the energy of the West. Jon Tapsell has displayed and elaborated in his book the Central Asian sources that informed Gurdjieff's ideas...

This book is His Eminency Dr. Hazrat Shah Sufi M N Alam's 60 years of research in the field of Global Peace, Islamic Eschatology, Sufism, along with past, present and future of World's Situation with detailed explanation and solution. Eminency had...

Ibn al-Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam is a translation of one of the most important works written on Islamic Mysticism.Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) is deemed the greatest mystic of Islam and his mystical philosophy has attracted the attention of both...

Moral Rationalism and Sharī'a is the first attempt at outlining the scope for a theological reading of Sharī'a, based on a critical examination of why 'Adliyya theological ethics have not significantly impacted Shī'ī readings of Sharī'a. Within Shī'ī...

Ibn al-'Arabī (d. 1240) was one of the towering figures of Islamic intellectual history, and among Sufis still bears the title of al-shaykh al-akbar, or "the greatest master." Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture traces the history of the...

Many books have been written about the study of Sufism, but very few have been written describing its experience. The Quest and the Qalandar gives the reader an idea of what the experience of the Sufi path is like from the words of a living Sufi master,...

When they speak most teachers, lecturers, professors and scholars address the minds of their listeners, attempting to provoke new thought patterns, impart fresh information and describe what they know. However the Sufi masters speak "from the heart to...

Women Around the Messenger collects the stories of the most important and influential women in Islam. Beginning with the mother of mankind, Hawwa (Eve), and moving through human history until the time of the Prophet Muhammad, this volume also covers the...

Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: 'When you realize the difference...

AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION. In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant. Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness, each of the men became...

First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated.The book's title in itself...

Warning: when you pop, you can’t stop!Like a famous brand of crisps, these stories are addictive.Read one, the saying goes, and you’ll be stuck reading seven.In fact, Mulla Nasrudin jokes function like memes – working their way into the...

Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and ‘parables in action’ illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three...

Avradi Qadri-Talifa Manef is a spiritual text that provides guidance on the principles and practices of Sufism, a mystical Islamic tradition. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of God, the importance of spiritual purification,...

Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe - and the phenomenon of 'Rumimania' - to elucidate the complexities of intercultural...

Tadhkirat al-Awliya (Biographies of the Saints) is a classic of Sufi literature, written in the 12th century. It is a collection of stories and anecdotes about the lives of Sufi saints, from the earliest times to Attar's own day.Attar's stories are not...

"Salawat de Inmensas Bendiciones" es una recopilación de súplicas e invocaciones diarias y semanales que son dedicadas al Profeta Muhammad, estas contienen específicos e inmensos beneficios para los suplicantes. Extraídas de fuentes Árabes auténticas,...

A leading exponent of Muslim thought focuses on the inner spiritual meaning of the religion of Islam and its ramifications for the modern world, namely, the problems the tradition faces in our contemporary world, including Islam's inner tensions between...

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The Mlfzat of Nizam al-Din Awliya is a compilation of the spiritual and mystical experiences of the great Sufi saint. His sayings, anecdotes, and teachings have been collected by his disciple Hasan 'Ali Sanjar. This book is a treasure of Sufi knowledge...

An eloquent and inspiring tribute to the life and legacy of Hazrath Ghousi Shah, one of the most revered Sufi saints of the Indian subcontinent. Written by an anonymous author in the traditional Islamic style of hagiography, this book chronicles the...

My wedding ring had Ali Agha's aura about it. I kissed it. All of a sudden, I saw him appear before me. He was standing in front of me and was smiling. The sight of him made me forget my pain. I couldn't believe it! Ali Agha was there, right in front of...

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts. At the popular level, he has been read as...

The Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jeláleddín Rumi (1207-1273) found his own religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. His Sufi poems are amongst the most compelling and memorable spiritual works of world literature. Their diversity and profoundness had...

The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi is one of the most influential works of Sufism, commonly called "the Quran in Persian". It has been viewed by many commentators as the greatest mystical poem in world literature. Its diversity, complexity and profoundness,...

THE FIQH OF ISLAM: A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF PRINCIPLES OF WORSHIP is based on legal explanations taken from preeminent Muslim jurists throughout history and includes further elucidation from venerable Sufi masters. This approach underscores the...

Perhaps hundreds of thousands of books can be written on the meanings of one verse of the Holy Qur'an, "Verily We have honored the Children of Adam". What about you? You can sit down and say what is in your heart from heavenly knowledge, or from holy...

Sobre este Libro Descubriendo a los Angeles es un libro muy bienvenido. Provee muchos relatos tradicionales Islámicos sobre ángeles en un lenguaje hermoso y simple que será apreciado por todos. Como el Sheikh Hisham Kabbani dice:...

L'ouvrage d'El-Hage Rahmat-Ullah Efendi de Delhi est un classique de la spiritualité islamique. Il y présente une interprétation originale et profonde des principes fondamentaux de l'islam. Cette traduction française est accompagnée d'une introduction...

In this gripping autobiography, Sayyid Muhammad Al-Tijani takes us on a transformative journey of self-discovery. Born into a Tunisian Sunni Muslim family, Al-Tijani's early experiences were rooted in the Maliki school and the Tijani Sufi order. However,...

Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil of Cyprus (1922-2014) founded the Naqshbandiyya Nazimiyya Sufi Order. He is listed in the top 50 of "The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World", a ground-breaking book published by Georgetown University. The SUFI WISDOM...