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DOORKEEPER OF THE HEART: Versions of Rabia
By Charles Upton
Price: $12.00
"How long will you keep pounding an open door begging for someone to open it?"
Rabia al-Adawiyya was an unconventional Muslim woman from Basra known as "the First of Sufis".
She could be considered the progenitor of other great Sufi poets such as Jelaludin Rumi.
Readers of these fiery verses and teaching-stories will glimpse Rabia's state of radical freedom.
She challenges us: pass through the open doorway of the heart; transcend and transform all limitations;
become as one with the Beloved.
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MECCAN REVELATIONS, Volume II
By Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
edited by Michel Chodkiewicz
translated by Cyrille Chodkiewicz, Denis Gril,
and David Streight
ISBN 1-879708-21-3
Price: $18.00
trade paper, 6 x 9, 269 pages
The continuation of our acclaimed English translation of Les
Iluminations de la Meque. Volume II contains more of the "Greatest
Shaykh's" wisdom for the first time in English. Subjects include: the
gnostic and the sacred law, the mystic properties of the Quranic
letters, the secrets of Forgiveness and the attainment of Divine
Nearness.
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MECCAN REVELATIONS
By Ibn al'Arabi
edited by Michel Chodkiewicz
translated by William C. Chittick and James W. Morris
ISBN 1-879708-17-6
Price: $18.00
trade paper, 6 x 9, 384 pages
This breakthrough translation presents twenty-two key chapters from
Ibn 'Arabi's "summa mystica", al-Futuhat al-Makiyya, on teachings such
as the Divine Names of Allah, the nature of spiritual experience, the
End of Time, the Resurrection, and the stages on the path to human
perfection. Finally, Western readers of mysticism have an entree into
one of the most important and profound works of world literature.
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REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY
By AL-HUJWIRI
Foreword by Carl W. Ernst
ISBN: 1-879708-14-0
Price: $18
Trade paper, 472 pages
Like Rumi, Hafiz and Attar, al-Hujwiri was one of the great saints of Sufism.
Revelation of the Mystery, or Kashf al-mahjub, has been revered
by students of Sufism for nine centuries. This classic text contains biographies
of the saints, including Fudayl, the brigand who became a great spiritual
teacher; Ibrahim Adham, the prince who renounced everything when he received
the divine call; and al-Hallaj, the great Sufi martyr. Al-Hujwiri also
offers the spiritual seeker universal and timeless advice on many subjects,
such as contemplation, generosity, spiritual courtesy, prayer, love and
distinguishing false spirituality and false teachers from the real, a
discernment just as important today as then.
"It has been said that those who seek a guide in Sufism should do three
things: pray for guidance, visit the tombs of the great shaykhs, and read
[Revelation of the Mystery]."
- Carl W. Ernst, author of The Shambhala Guide to Sufism
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CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
By FARID UD-DIN ATTAR
Translated by C.S. NOTT
ISBN: 1-879708-13-2
Price: $14
Trade paper, 160 pages
The Conference of the Birds is one of the great works of world
literature. In it Farid ud-Din Attar explores the nature of the spiritual
path through an allegory of the brave birds that go in search of their
king through the peaks of exultation and the valleys of despair that represent
the stages of the seeker as he travels towards enlightenment. Attar was
the predecessor of the great Persian Sufi poet Jalalludin Rumi, who borrowed
Attar's technique of weaving wisdom within entertaining and amusing tales.
"Attar, along with Chaucer and Dante, is a great genius of community
and how that involves the path toward enlightenment. We are these bird-beings
searching for the source of what we are together."
- Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi
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READINGS FROM THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM
Translated by Margaret Smith
ISBN: 1-879708-09-4
Price: $11.95
Trade paper, 120 pages
Readings from the Mystics of Islam
is an anthology of writings from Islamic mysticism's greatest masters of
wisdom, translated and edited by Margaret Smith, the renowned scholar of
Sufism. Ranging from the beginnings of Sufism in the 8th century to the
modern era, the selections include jewels of mystical thought and experience
from Rabia, al-Hallaj, Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Hafiz, among others.
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