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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts (Suny Series in Islam) - Softcover

Chittick, William C.

 
9780791413685: Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts (Suny Series in Islam)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791413683 ISBN 13: 9780791413685
Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Dates and Koranic References Introduction Part One Islam in Three Dimensions Works, Faith, and Perfection Faith and Knowledge Ihsan, Ikhlas, and Taqwa Felicity Priorities The Sciences of Unveiling and Practice Notes Part Two Faith Style and Content The Three Principles The Cosmology of Tawhid Notes The Rising Places of Faith Opening I. Faith in God 1. The Essence 2. The Attributes 3. The Acts II. Faith in Prophecy 1. The Wonders of Prophecy 2. The Prophet Muhammad III. Faith In The Last Day 1. Human Subsistence 2. The Barzakh and the Other Stages of the Next World Conclusion Clarifications for Beginners and Reminders for the Advanced Introduction I. The Creator 1. The Essence 2. The Attributes 3. The Acts II. Friendship And Prophecy 1. Friendship Supplement 2. Prophecy III. This World And The Next World 1. Benefits And Dangers Of This World 2. The Next World And Its Stages Conclusion Part Three Practice Notes The Easy Roads of Sayf Al-Din Introduction: Perfecting Character A Preliminary Remark I. The Science Of Faith 1. The Essence 2. The Attributes 3. The Acts 4. Prophecy 5. The Next World II. Ablutions And Purity 1. The Excellence Of Purity 2. Relieving Oneself 3. The Minor Ablution An Allusion 4. The Major Ablution 5. The Tayammum III. The Ritual Prayer 1. Its Excellence 2. The Number Of Cycles 3. How To Perform The Prayer A Hint 4. The Inward Dimensions IV. Fasting 1. Its Excellence 2. Its Secret And Its Degrees 3. Its Obligations V. Remembrance And Supplication 1. Imparting Remembrance 2. Transmitted Supplications 3. Supplications For Every Situation Conclusion: The Journey Part Four Sufism And Islam Orthodox Islam Mysticism And Discipline Toward A Narrower Definition Of Sufism Notes Annotations The Rising Places Of Faith Clarifications For Beginners The Easy Roads Of Sayf Al-Din Appendixes 1. The Author 2. Corrections To The Printed Texts Bibliography Index of Koranic Verses Index of Hadiths and Sayings Index of Names and Terms

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William C. Chittick is Professor of Comparative Studies at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has published numerous books, among them, Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity; Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts; The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination; The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi; and A Shi'ite Anthology, all published by SUNY Press.

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As stated in the introduction, two of the three texts translated in this book focus on the contents of Islamic faith, while the third concentrates on the details of practice--that is, the works that Muslims should perform in order to observe the Shariah.

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Verlag
State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791413683
ISBN 13 
9780791413685
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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