Sufi Meditation and Contemplation (Pocket)
avScott Kugle, Carl Ernst, Scott Kugle
ISBN: 9780930872908 - UTGIVEN: 201206This book offers fresh translations of three classic Sufi texts from Mughal India: The Alms Bowl of Shaykh Kalimullah Shajehanabadi, The Compass of Truth by Dara Shikoh, and the Treatise on the Human Body attributed to Mu'in al-Din Chishti. These texts elucidate meditation practices and the resultin[...]
Sufis & Saints' Bodies (Pocket)
avScott Kugle
ISBN: 9780807857892 - UTGIVEN: 2007-03Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through th[...]
Homosexuality in Islam (Häftad)
avScott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
ISBN: 9781851687015 - UTGIVEN: 201001Homosexuality is anathema to Islam - or so the majority of both believers and non-believers suppose. Throughout the Muslim world, it is met with hostility, where state punishments range from hefty fines to the death penalty. Likewise, numerous scholars and commentators maintain that the Qur'an and H[...]
The Book Of Illumination (Pocket)
avShaykh Ahmad Ibn Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari, Scott Alan (TRN) Kugle, Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari
ISBN: 9781887752626 - UTGIVEN: 2005-05Presenting a mystical and theological analysis of our human urge to create idols for ourselves and out of ourselves, this medieval author carefully recounts the enlightening counsels of his own masters. He is most attentive to the subtle psychological working of our human ego, marshaling resources f[...]
