Islam: branches and groups

William Scott-Elliot's The Story of Atlantis presents an ambitious occult history of a vanished continent, combining geography, ethnology, dynastic narrative, and civilizational speculation into a single synthetic account.

Enlightened Contemporaries is the first book to compare the lives and teachings of three of the world's most admired spiritual masters: Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teacher; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi master.

This is a book about the intersection of Sufi and Hasidic wisdom as gleaned from the lives and teachings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement and Pir Vilayat Khan, the head and spiritual director of the Sufi Order of the West.

At the very heart of Islam lies the spiritual way of Sufism.

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of ';Whirling Dervishes,' is the best-selling poet in America today.

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.

Followed by many millions of Muslims throughout the world, Sufism is the heart of Islamic spirituality.

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's important work, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, is a fully revised translation from the French original and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.

For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi thinkers.

Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam.

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).

Jesus is seen as a representative of an ancient and continuing wisdom tradition identified with that of the Sufis.

Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire.

Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire.

Insight into Life is the real religion, which alone can help man to understand Life.

The time has come to reveal more of Rumi than the inaccurate portrayal of a new age guru.

How to approach the complex intellectual legacy of a modern Muslim thinker like Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)?

How to approach the complex intellectual legacy of a modern Muslim thinker like Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)?

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Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations.

Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations.

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania.

The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania.

Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism.