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Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Gibb Memorial Series (Old Series XVII)
Al-Hujwi ri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Middle East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Mahj ?u b was probably written in Lahore, where he is buried, not long before his death in about 1074. One of the oldest Sufi works in Persian, it is a substantial treatise aiming to set forth a complete system of Sufism. This is achieved partly by the discussion of acts and saying of the great figures of the past, partly by discussion of features of doctrine and practice and the examination of the different vi Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)297.4Religions Other Religions Islam, Babism, Bahai Faith Sufi, MysticismLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
THIS translation of the most ancient and celebrated Persian treatise on Sufiism will, I hope, be found useful not only by the small number of students familiar with the subject at first hand, but also by many readers who, without being Orientalists themselves, are interested in the general history of mysticism and may wish to compare or contrast the diverse yet similar manifestations of the mystical spirit in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. The origin of Sufiism and its relation to these great religions cannot properly be considered here, and I dismiss such
questions the more readily because I intend to deal with them on another occasion. It is now my duty to give some account of the author of the Kashf al-Mahjub, and to indicate the character of his work.