Doctrine of the Sufis

Name: Doctrine of the Sufis
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ISBN: 9780521292184

ISBN-10: 0521292182

ISBN-13: 9780521292184

Edition: 1977

Authors: A. J. Arberry, Abu Bakr Al-Kalabadhi

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This 1935 English translation of a classic Arabic text in SÅ«fÄ«sm, the mystical aspect of Islam, by A. J. Arberry preserves the beauty and simplicity of the original without departing from a literal translation. Little is known of the author of this treatise AbÅ« Bakr al-KalÄ bÄ dhÄ«, except that he was a lawyer and died in BukhÄ rÄ in about AD 990. This book is the work on which his fame rests, and is important because it is the earliest extant text to reconcile the position of SÅ«fÄ«sm and orthodox Islam. The book consists of five parts: a general introduction to the term SÅ«fÄ« and an enumeration of the names of the great SÅ«fÄ«s; a statements of the tenets of Islam, as accepted by the…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/26/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction


Prooemium



How the Sufis account for their being called Sufis



A list of the famous men among the Sufis



A list of the Sufis who published the sciences of allusion in books and treatises



A list of the Sufis who have written on conduce



Their doctrine of unity



Their doctrine of the attributes



Their variance as to whether God has ceased creating



Their variance concerning names



Their doctrine of the Qur'an



Their variance concerning the nature of speech



Their doctrine of vision



Their variance as to the Prophet's vision



Their doctrine of predestination and the creation of acts



Their doctrine of capacity



Their doctrine of compulsion



Their doctrine of advantageousness



Their doctrine of promise and threat



Their doctrine of intercession



Their doctrine of children



Their doctrine of the duties imposed by God on adults



Their doctrine of the gnosis of god



Their variance as to the nature of gnosis



Their doctrine of spirit



Their doctrine of angels and messengers



Their doctrine of the faults ascribed to the prophets



Their doctrine of the miracles of saints



Their doctrine of faith



Their doctrine of the realities of faith



Their doctrine of the legal schools



Their doctrine of earning



Of the Sufi sciences of the states



Of the nature and meaning of Sufism



Of the revelation of the thoughts



Of Sufism and being at ease with God



Their doctrine of repentance



Their doctrine of abstinence



Their doctrine of patience



Their doctrine of poverty



Their doctrine of humility



Their doctrine of fear



Their doctrine of piety



Their doctrine of sincerity



Their doctrine of gratitude



Their doctrine of trust



Their doctrine of satisfaction



Their doctrine of certainty



Their doctrine of recollection



Their doctrine of intimacy



Their doctrine of nearness



Their doctrine of union



Their doctrine of love



Their doctrine of detachment and separation



Their doctrine of ecstasy



Their doctrine of overmastery



Their doctrine of intoxication



Their doctrine of absence and presence



Their doctrine of concentration and separation



Their doctrine of revelation and veiling



Their doctrine of passing-away and persistence



Their doctrine of the realities of gnosis



Their doctrine of unification



Their doctrine of the description of the gnostic



Their doctrine of the seeker and the sought



Their doctrine of toiling and divine practice



Their doctrine of discoursing to men



Of their piety and pious endeavours



Of God's favours to the Sufis and His warning them by means of supernatural voices



Of God's warning them by gifts of insight



Of God's warning them by means of thoughts



Of God's warning them through visions and rare favours



God's favours to them which spring of His jealousy



God's bounties in laying hardships upon them to bear



God's grace to them at death and after



Of other graces accorded them



Of audition


Index