| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 158 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148) and index. |
| Contents |
Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Translator's introduction -- Ostad Elahi's life and works -- Childhood and youth -- Professional life and judicial career -- The final period : writing and teaching -- Ostad elahi's published works : the place of Knowing the Spirit -- Historical contexts : the audience, language and structure of Ma'rifat ar-Rūh -- The "three sources" : rational argument, religious tradition, and spiritual experience -- Allusion and realization -- The basic structure of Knowing the Spirit : the origin and the return -- The contemporary significance of Knowing the spirit -- The Persian text and translation conventions -- Translation of Knowing the Spirit -- Original table of contents -- Introduction -- Establishing the existence of the Divine Artisan -- The Spirit -- The gathering, reawakening, and returning (of the Spirit) in the realm of return -- The purely bodily return -- The purely spiritual return -- The harmonization of a bodily and spiritual return -- The (Spirit's) return by way of the process of perfection -- The belief of the proponents of transmigration -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit provides a concise and remarkably illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throughout nature, and of the process of the soul's deepening perfection through all the challenges and lessons of our existence in this world and beyond. This revealing book draws together in a single vision those symbolic teachings and spiritual insights familiar to many Western readers today through the classical mystical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Attar. The historical context and language of this study are marked by the confluence of classical Islamic philosophy and spirituality, including Sufi thought, and their scriptural sources."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the Persian. |
| Subject |
Soul -- Islam.
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Soul -- Islam. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Morris, James Winston, 1949-
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| Added Title |
Maʻrifat al-rūḥ. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005090144
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ilāhī, Nūr ʻAlī, 1895- Maʻrifat al-rūḥ. English. Knowing the spirit. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007 0791468577 9780791468579 (DLC) 2005036232 (OCoLC)62615995 |
| ISBN |
9781429471268 (electronic book) |
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1429471263 (electronic book) |
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0791468577 |
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9780791468579 |
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0791468585 (paperback) |
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9780791468586 (paperback) |
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9780791481202 |
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0791481204 |
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