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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Paperback

Religion General Islam

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 006162599X
ISBN13: 9780061625992
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: Sep 2 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment, insisting rather on the love of God as the only valid form of adoration. Sufism has made significant contributions to Islamic civilization in music and philosophy, dance and literature. The Sufi poet Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. But in recent centuries Sufism has been a target for some extremist Islamic movements as well as many modernists. The Garden of Truth presents the beliefs and vision of the mystical heart of Islam, along with a history of Sufi saints and schools of thought.

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