Sufism: Love and Wisdom
The inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi practitioners and thinkers for hundreds of years. Those initiated into its mysteries have sometimes expressed those mysteries in ecstatic poetry in a symbolic language of love, as did Rumi, or sometimes in reasoned prose, as did Ibn Arabi.
Sufism: Love and Wisdom contains essays by such renowned scholars as: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Chittick, Titus Burckhardt, Maria Massi Dakake, Reza Shah-Kazemi Angus Macnab, William Stoddart, Leo Schaya Martin Lings, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon.
This book also contains several essays translated into English for the first time including Denis Gril and Éric Geoffroy and contributions from a new generation of interpreters of Sufism.
About the Co-Editors Jean-Louis Michon
Jean-Louis Michon is a traditionalist French scholar and art consultant who specializes in Islam in North Africa, Islamic art, and Sufism. His works include Autobiography of a Moroccan Sufi: Ahmad Ibn ‘Ajiba (1747-1809), Lights of Islam: Institutions, Cultures, Arts, and Spirituality in the Islamic City. Dr. Michon coordinated the rehabilitation of traditional handicrafts in Morocco which were seriously threatened by industrialization. World Wisdom
Roger Gaetani
Roger Gaetani is an editor and long-time student of Sufism, who spent five years in Morocco as a teacher. While there, he developed an interest in Sufism and met a number of traditional Sufi adherents and teachers, including ‘Abd as-Salam ad-Darqawi, a master of Koranic recitation and a direct descendant of the great Sufi Shaykh Mulay al-‘Arabi ad-Darqawi. Gaetani also spent two years in Saudi Arabia, where he taught at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. He has published short works in various professional journals and literary magazines.
Additional Publication Information Sufism: Love and Wisdom contains a complete Index and Glossary of Terms. The publication date is March 31, 2006 and the estimated retail price is $24.95. Sufism: Love and Wisdom is approximately 280 pages.
About the Author of the Introduction Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the world’s most respected authorities on traditional Islam and Sufism. He is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University and author of over 30 books, including Sufi Essays and A Young Muslim’s Guide to the Modern World. He has also edited The Essential Frithjof Schuon (World Wisdom, 2005). A volume in the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers series has been dedicated to his thought.
“The present work is one of the most valuable anthologies devoted to Sufism in a Western language and is in fact unique in its authenticity combined with diversity….The editors have been very judicious in selecting texts that are authentic and yet represent different approaches to the study of Sufism as well as diverse aspects of the subject.” —Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University
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