Category: Book Reviews

Review of Spiritual body and celestial earth

Author: James Winston Morris [Review in Iranian Studies, vol. 28 (1995), pp. 110-111.] Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi’ite Iran. By Henry Corbin (translated by N. Pearson). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977 (pb. reprint, 1989); Bollingen Series XCI:2. xviii + 374 pp. While this classic study, first published in 1960, is […]

Sufism in the West

Jamal Malik and John Hinnels, eds. New York: Routledge, 2006, 207 pages.This edited volume, along with David Westerlund’s edited Sufism in Europe and North America (RoutledgeCurzon: 2004), are pioneering works, since the systematic study of this topic is still in its infancy. Its introduction and nine chapters bring together anthropological, historical, Islamicist, and sociological perspectives […]

I Am Wind, You are Fire: The Life and Work of Rumi

I Am Wind, You are Fire: The Life and Work of Rumi Annemarie Schimmel Shambhala, 1992 – 214  This book … celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia’s great mystical poet, Rumi (1207-1273), through the story of his life, along with an enlightening examination of his ecstatic verse. Rumi lived the quiet life of a religious […]

Two translations of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (Ibn Arabi) into German

Deuter der Sehnsüchte, Tarjuman al-Ashwaq von Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (Autor), Wolfgang Herrmann (Übersetzer), Volume 2 Two complete translations of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq into German have appeared in 2016. A review of Weidner’s translation – Der Übersetzer der Sehnsüchte: Gedichte – appeared on August 23, 2016 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest newspaper. The subtitle for the […]

‘Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight

Farid al-Din ‘Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece “Mantiq al-tayr”, or “The Conference of Birds”, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by […]

The Philosophy of Ecstasy

The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi TraditionEdited by Leonard Lewisohn Subjects(s): Comparative ReligionIslamPoetrySufismwith an essay from Dr . Shahram Pazouki Rumi and the Sufi Tradition Edited by Leonard LewisohnDescriptionJalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of “Whirling Dervishes,” is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his […]

ALONE WITH THE ALONE: CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE SUFISM OF IBN ‘ARABI

Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi 1958-2008ALONE WITH THE ALONE: CREATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE SUFISM OF IBN ‘ARABIbyHenry Corbin First published in French as L’Imagination Creatrice dans le Soufisme d’Ibn ‘Arabi this profoundly moving and beautiful volume stands as one of the great works of theology and comparative philosophy of the 20th century. […]

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