When I spoke with Aaron Vlek about her novel, Jinn Theory I thought this has to go in the Sufi Book Store . So I’ve created a whole new category for novels and Jinn Theory is a worthy first to go on the virtual book shelf! Here is an excerpt from the description on the… Read More ‘Jinn Theory’ a Great Sufi novel
“The author, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, was the Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order for over 55 years prior to his death in October 2008 at the age of 82. In addition to bringing the teachings of the Nimatullahi Sufism to the West and other parts of the world, Dr. Nurbakhsh also wrote extensively on Sufism… Read More The Psychology of Sufism
“Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa’diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and creative encounters with gender justice in Islam can take… Read More Sufi Narratives of Intimacy
Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims (click on the image for more information) “Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world’s one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and… Read More Seven Doors to Islam
Whether you are just becoming interested in the Sufi path or you are already on the way this book by Carl W. Ernst offers a treasure of Sufi writings from the past 10 centuries. “The prose and verse readings in this book were chosen to interest the many people who have become attracted to Sufi… Read More Teachings of Sufism
Author and Sufi teacher, Phillip Gowins, writes here of the important role that Sufi master Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan played in bringing the Sufi path to the West. He also describes his own progress and adventures along this path. “The aim of the 1,500-year-old spiritual tradition of Sufism, it has been said, is “the elimination… Read More The Sovereign Soul
“Writing from the small Moroccan town of Sale to friends in the capital city of fez, Ibn Abbad composed numerous letters of spiritual direction that spoke to the concrete problems of his devotees. A selection of these letters, written between 1365-1375, is included here.”
A collection of essays on the Sufi tradition by some of the best known contemporary writers on the subject. “For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi practitioners and thinkers. Those initiated into its mysteries have sometimes expressed them in ecstatic poetry, in a symbolic language of… Read More Sufism: Love and Wisdom
One way of describing author Tom Cheetham is as a spiritual ecologist. Meaning that he sees no real separation between the material and the spiritual for God is present everywhere and speaks to us through all forms. This gives human beings a great responsibility to care for the planet and all creation, and more than… Read More Green Man, Earth Angel
Speaking of Ibn ‘Arabi and about the biography by Stephen Hirtenstein yesterday I thought I would continue to say more about the great Shaykh and include a few links and other books about his work. I have just added a new page in the Sufi Book Store which contains forty-two works by and about Ibn… Read More Speaking of Ibn ‘Arabi
