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Publication Date: June 11,2012
Category: Sufism
Few types of classical Islam are even more controversial among contemporary Muslims compared to the spiritual discipline referred to as Sufism. Yet, when confronted with the modern Muslim inclination to limit Islam’s deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religious beliefs could be even more central to its spiritual vitality in today’s world. Written in the classical design of spiritual aphorisms, this function is a treasure-trove of classical Islamic spiritual wisdom, free from all of the normal barriers between Sufism and the normal believer.
Sufism for Non-Sufis? Jackson demonstrates that violent, lax, or rigid readings of the texts of Islam are simply as much due to the condition of spiritual health, recognition, and fortitude of these who read and deploy them because they are of the element of the Qur’an, Sunna, and the teachings of Islam’s sages.: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus shows your time and effort of a famous Sufi expert (d. 1309 CE) to circumvent the controversies and misunderstandings regarding Sufism to describe Islam’s custom of devotional rectitude, spiritual refinement, and purification of the personal to the everyday Muslim. To the end, al-Sakandari avoids just about any aspect of Sufism recognized to raise complications for opponents or non-adepts - theological, institutional, actually terminological - instead wanting to cultivate a proper romantic relationship with God, not only intellectually or theologically but experientially and psycho-dynamically. In his translation and evaluation of Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus, Sherman A.