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What Is Sufism? Paperback - 1999

by Martin Lings

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Martin Lings provides an excellent and authoritative introduction to the mystical movement of the Sufis based on his lifelong interest in Islamic culture. His explanation derives from a profound understanding of Sufism, and extends to many aspects which are usually neglected. His illuminating answer to 'What is Sufism?' gives a taste of the very subject matter itself. What do Sufis believe? What do they aim at? What do they do? Unlike other writers on the subject, Martin Lings treats all the three questions with equal justice. He is thus able to give a wealth of answers to the main question 'What is Sufism?', each answer being from a different angle but all going to the root of the matter.

A reviewer wrote 'Should the book appear in paperback, I would use it for undergraduate and graduate courses on Islamic civilization', and in fact What is Sufism? has become a set book in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. It is now accepted as the authoritative statement on the subject of Sufism and it has been translated into French, German, Italian and Spanish. It has also been published in Sarajevo in Bosnian, and is available in Braille.

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The great Andalusian Sufi, Muhyi 'd-Din Ibn 'Arabi, used to pray a prayer which begins: 'Enter me, O Lord, into the deep of the Ocean of Thine Infinite Oneness', and in the treatises of the Sufis this 'Ocean' is mentioned again and again, likewise by way of symbolic reference to the End towards which their path is directed.

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  • Title What Is Sufism?
  • Author Martin Lings
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 134
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge UK
  • Publication date December 1, 1999
  • ISBN 9780946621415 / 0946621411
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.79 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Religion - World Religions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97179248
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.4

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The late Dr Lings, formerly Keeper of Oriental Manuscript in the British Museum and the British Library, is the author of two works on Islamic mysticism, The Book of Certainty and A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century, both published by the Islamic Texts Society. His Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, also published by the Islamic Texts Society, has been internationally acclaimed as a masterpiece.

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