On Benefits Seneca - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature.
The Bhagavad Gita Edwin Arnold - The Bhagavad-Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Sir Edwin Arnold's Sanskrit Text to English translation is reliable, readable, and poetic.
Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus Thomas Taylor - Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus"e; is a short book of translations of fragments of Proclus by Thomas Taylor, the English Neoplatonist and translator of Aristotle, Plato and Orpheus.
Every Man out of His Humour Ben Jonson - "e;Jonson's *Every Man Out of His Humour* is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune.
The Eumenides Aeschylus - Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens later held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes's killing of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him guilty of the crime of murder.
Die künstlichen Paradiese Charles Baudelaire - Die Werke des französischen Dichters Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) inspirieren bis heute Künstler auf der ganzen Welt.
Die Glücksritter - Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff - 1788 auf Schloss Lubowitz bei Ratibor als Sohn eines preußischen Offiziers geboren, genießt Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff eine aristokratisch-katholische Erziehung und schließt 1812 - gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder - das Studium der Rechtwissenschaft ab und nimmt als Leutnant im Lützowschen Freikorps am Befreiungskrieg teil.
Ziel dieses philosophisch-allegorischen Inselromans des arabisch-andalusischen Denkers Ibn Tufail ist die Verteidigung der Philosophie als rationale Form der Erkenntnis.
Diese erste deutsche Ausgabe der philosophischen Autobiographie al-Ghazalis (1059–1111) ist besonders geeignet, einen originären Zugang zu den klassischen Quellen der arabischen Philosophie zu eröffnen.
In gut aristotelischer Tradition war das höchste Ziel des menschlichen Lebens auch bei den Philosophen im islamischen Bereich die Erkenntnis, das ideale und vollkommene Leben.
In der »Entscheidenden Abhandlung« (1179) verteidigt Averroes das Recht der Philosophie gegen den Einspruch der Theologie (al-Ghazali) unter Bezugnahme auf den Koran.
Ein philosophisches Lehrstück aus der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters, in dem der Anspruch des Menschen auf die Krone der Schöpfung thematisiert und sein Dasein schärfster Kritik unterzogen wird.
Dem Geheimnis "Gott" auf der SpurEinfühlsame Meditationen, die das vielgesichtige Wesen Gottes für den Alltag erschließen, mit 100 Kalligraphien von Shams Anwari-AlhosseyniDavid Steindl Rast ist einer der meist gelesenen spirituellen Autoren unserer Zeit und ein geschätzter Pionier im Dialog der Religionen.
The history of Al-Azhar is the history of Islamic culture from the fourth century AH until today, and if Egypt was placed by fate in this dangerous location on the world map, where it is located as a communication center between the continents, sending its cultural and civilizational rays to various parts of the world, eastern and western, then Al-Azhar has risen in this place - and is still playing - a role of great influence in Islamic thought, and even human thought in a renewed, moderate thought, sending its preachers and ideas in every direction spreading science and knowledge, and Al-Azhar has stood for a thousand years.
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia.
This extraordinary biography of the Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader (1807/8-1883), shows his dazzling spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities.
Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.
Tierno Bokar (1875-1939), African mystic and Muslim spiritual teacher, was remarkable for the drama of his life story (which was made into a recent play directed by Peter Brook).
How Eastern religions are commodified in the modern world, and why it matters ';An expansive book, covering the intersection of mysticism and capitalism illuminating.
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.
Reveals the secret spiritual exercises of the Bektashi Order of Sufis *; Shows how this order, also known as Oriental Freemasonry, preserves the ancient spiritual doctrines forgotten by modern Freemasonry *; Explains how to transform the soul into the alchemical Magnum Opus by combining Masonic grips and the abbreviated letters of the Qur'an *; Includes a detailed biography of Baron von Sebottendorff Originally published in Germany in 1924, this rare book by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff reveals the secret spiritual exercises of the Bektashi Order of Sufis as well as how this order, also known as Oriental Freemasonry, preserves the ancient spiritual doctrines forgotten by modern Freemasonry.
A collection of modern Sufi tales by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi initiate Nevit Ergin *; Contains 24 deceptively simple stories that invoke questioning and awareness *; By the renowned English translator of Rumi's complete Divan-i Kebir Sufi stories have traditionally been a means of opening a portal that allows us to advance from our basic perceptions into states of extraordinary awareness.
An exploration of the Persian poet's spiritual philosophy, with original translations of his poetry *; Features extensive insight into the meanings and contexts of the poetry and philosophies of this spiritual teacher*; Includes over 30 complete poems by Hafz, including ';The Wild Deer,' often regarded as his masterpieceFor 600 years the Persian poet Hafz has been read, recited, quoted, and loved by millions of people in his homeland and throughout the world.
It sheds light on the lives of a group of scholars who held the position of the Egyptian Fatwa House, and carried the burden of issuing fatwas on their shoulders.
It sheds light on the first diplomatic missions in Islam, which were almost the first of their kind in human history, as they called for goodness and peace.
This book provides a simplified and comprehensive explanation of the five pillars of Islam that every Muslim needs to know, without getting bogged down in details related to the differences between one sect and another.
The personality of Muhammad bin Abdullah, the Messenger of humanity and the Seal of the Prophets, was and still is a source of inspiration for many poets and thinkers.
It presents thirty writers from the geniuses of religious singing who raise its banner and defend it in an era in which beautiful art has become a strange thing, far from the melodies of love and passion that religion does not accept.
It monitors the journey of searching for truth, justice, and true Islam through those who lived floundering in the darkness of disbelief, until God guided them to the light of Islam.
An attempt to shed light on some Islamic concepts of some prevailing expressions, based on the fact that culture is what gives humans the ability to think and implement, and culture has become an industry owned by Western or biased media, and the internal tearing of the Islamic civilizational identity is taking place and cultural trends are linked to false goals.
Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves in the non-Islamic world.
A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.
Reveals the secret teachings of the Khwajagan, the Masters of Wisdom of Turkish Sufism *; Provides biographies for the entire lineage of teachers in the Naqshbandi order, such as Yusuf Hamdani, the first recognized Khwajagan, and Baha' al-Din Naqshband, from whom the Naqshbandi order of Sufis took its name *; Shows that this spiritual path focuses on expanding awareness of the heart to reach God-consciousness *; An essential guide for understanding Itlak Yolu, the Sufi path of Absolute Liberation, and fana', Annihilation in God Almost one thousand years ago a new and powerful nexus of spiritual transmission emerged in Central Asia and lasted for five centuries, reaching its culmination in the work of the Khwajagan, or ';Masters of Wisdom.
An exploration of the profound Sufi practice of Itlak Yolu *; Examines the three main facets of this practice: zikr or breathing exercises, fasting, and mental suffering *; Shares new Sufi parables, the sayings of Sufi master Hasan Lutfi Shushud, and Rumi's philosophy on annihilation of the Self *; Reveals how once the Self is annihilated higher levels of perception are reached In this exploration of the profound spiritual practice of Itlak Yolu, the Sufi path of annihilation, Nevit Ergin examines the three main facets of this path: zikr or breathing exercises, fasting, and mental suffering.
The first collection of poems translated into English from the forbidden volume of the Divan of Rumi*; Presents Rumi's most heretical and free-form poems*; Includes introductions and commentary that provide both 13th-century context and modern interpretationAfter his overwhelming and life-altering encounters with Shams of Tabriz, Rumi, the great thirteenth-century mystic, poet, and originator of the whirling dervishes, let go of many of the precepts of formal religion, insisting that only a complete personal dissolving into the larger energies of God could provide the satisfaction that the heart so desperately seeks.
The first English translation of the rubais of Rumi *; Presents 233 of the most evocative of Rumi's 1,700 rubais *; Shows that the mystical embrace is the way to directly experience the Divine Rumi is well known for the over 44,000 verses that appear in a 23-volume collection called the Divan-i Kebir.
