Draws on source texts of the Tao Te Ching and the Chuang-tzu for ways to achieve skills effortlessly through unity with the Tao Explains how Taoism is a spiritual technology for deprogramming ourselves from socialization and dissolving the ego Explores concepts of wu-wei (nonaction) and xiaoyao you (free and easy wandering in oneness) in order to realize our unfiltered true natureGiving readers a fresh take on the ancient philosophy of oneness, while at the same time restoring Taoisms original teachings, Jason Gregory shows how to effortlessly align with the Tao.
The Shocking Truth About the Islamic View of Non-Muslim WomenHoly Hell reveals how Islam sanctions the rape and sex slavery of infidel women, and how non-Muslim officials prefer to deny that fact rather than confront it.
This collection of essays by some of the world's leading authorities on Islamic social history focuses on the juridical and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies.
Synthesizes ancient mythologies across time, space, and cultures to resacralize the human experience Written as a novella interspersed with metered quatrains in the tradition of medieval Persian belles-lettres Includes full-color paintings of key figures and motifs, including Sita, Yggdrasil, the Minotaur, Quetzalcoatl, and the Three MarysIn this globe-spanning chronicle, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, leader of the Inayatiyya, sets forth an astonishing sequence of legends revealing little-known connections between ancient cultures and spiritual lineages.
Centering on the pioneering work of Christoph Luxenberg, this anthology of scholarly yet accessible studies of the Koran makes a convincing case that Islams holy book borrowed heavily from Christian texts in Syriac and other Near Eastern sources.
Centering on the pioneering work of Christoph Luxenberg, this anthology of scholarly yet accessible studies of the Koran makes a convincing case that Islams holy book borrowed heavily from Christian texts in Syriac and other Near Eastern sources.
In an age of noise and distraction, Words of Wisdom brings together the timeless teachings of one of the greatest spiritual luminaries of the twentieth century: Hazrat Maulana Masihullah Khan Sahib (R.
The Mystical Intellect is a scholarly study of Ibn ʿArabī and his monumental work, Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Openings), exploring how the great Andalusian mystic reshaped the architecture of Islamic epistemology.
What happens when religious authority is examined with the same rigor applied to history, law, politics, and every other institution that shapes human life?
There are several translations of the kur-an in several languages; but there are very few people who have the strength of mind to read any of them through.
To this day, humanity still has no definitive answer to one of the most fundamental questions concerning its own existence: from whom or from what does it originate, how did it come into being, and what is the true cause of its existence?
This book is set in the era of Prophet Muhammad when the revolution of Islam began to take root in the Arabian desert, and when the Prophet of Allah had established the Islamic state of Madinah to secure the future and the destiny of the Muslims.
In seventh-century Damascus, Imam an-Nawawi gathered forty-two hadiths he judged to be the foundations of the entire religion — on intention, sincerity, mercy, lawful earning, and trust in Allah — drawn largely from Bukhari and Muslim.
In twelfth-century Baghdad, crowds gathered to hear Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani speak about the states of the heart — trial, provision, leaving the self, standing with God.
De entre las bellísimas y singulares obras que alumbró el sufismo persa, El lenguaje de los pájaros es sin duda una de sus cumbres, pudiendo contarse por derecho propio entre los hitos de la literatura universal.
FROM GNOSIOLOGY TO WAḤDAT AL-SHUHŪD: The Anthropology of Mystical Knowing in Islam examines how knowledge is understood within the Islamic intellectual tradition.
In a world torn between information overload and spiritual emptiness, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and the Future of Metaphysical Thought offers a luminous path toward intellectual clarity and moral renewal.
Step into the Stream of Sacred Feminine PowerOshun: Goddess of Love and Waters offers a powerful exploration of this cherished deity's myth, magic, and meaning across cultures and traditions.
Across the vast landscape of human religious experience, a common thread persists: the belief in a reality populated by unseen forces, and the fear of malevolent supernatural influence.
Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies the single most important institution for the propagation of Islam, the Friday congregational sermon delivered in the mosque by the Muslim preacher.
Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "e;real"e; Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East.
Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism.
In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.
The first detailed study of Islamic theodicy, the book points out distinctively Islamic formulations and solutions of the problem of the best of all possible worlds"e; and shows where they coincide with Western versions, such as that of Leibniz.
Allan Christelow examines the Muslim courts of Algeria from 1854, when the French first intervened in Islamic legal matters, through the gradual subordination of the courts and judges that went on until World War I.
In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent Arab migrations to the Fertile Crescent.
