The garden of truth : the vision and promise of Sufism, Islam's mystical tradition / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
2007
BP189.3 .N364 2007 (Mapit)
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Title The garden of truth : the vision and promise of Sufism, Islam's mystical tradition / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Author Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780060797225
0060797223
Publication Details New York : HarperOne, c2007.
Language English
Description xvi, 256 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Call Number BP189.3 .N364 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 297.4
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references(p. 247-248) and index.
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Introduction
PART I. Chapter 1. What it means to be human - Who are we and what are we doing here?
PART II. Chapter 2. Truth - The knowledge that illuminates and delivers from the bondage of ignorance ; Chapter 3. Love and beauty - The fire that attracts and consumes, the peace that calms and liberates ; Chapter 4. Goodness and human action - To do His will and to conform to the Divine Norm ; Chapter 5. How do we reach the Garden of Truth? - The path to the One
PART III. Chapter 6. Access to the Center-Sufism here and now
PART IV. Appendix 1. The Sufi tradition and the Sufi orders - Reflections on the manifestation of Sufism in time and space ; Appendix 2. The tradition of Gnosis and Doctrinal Sufism
Glossary of technical terms
Bibliography
Index.

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