Eating for the Awakening of the Heart: Prophetic, Sufi, Philosophical, and Psychological Foundations of Sacred Restraint

Eating for the Awakening of the Heart: Prophetic, Sufi, Philosophical, and Psychological Foundations of Sacred Restraint is a scholarly and contemplative study of eating as a discipline of moral formation. Rather than treating food as a purely biological concern or a site of personal performance, the book argues that appetite is one of the earliest arenas in which freedom is tested, trained, and r...