Sufism for Non-SufisFew forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam's deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world. In his translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al Sakandari's Taj al 'Arus, Sherman A. Jackson demonstrates that violent,

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If you've time to listen

Attar is best known for this epic poem

Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation

a female scholar residing in Damascus

this compendium will not only interest academics

Publisher: Dar al Turath

the United States

Author: Abu Hamid Mohammad Al-Ghazali

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offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape