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Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals for the Heart (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Lawrence, Bruce B. (Trans.); Nizami, Khaliq Ahmad (Intro.); Digby, Simon (Preface)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0809104512
- ISBN 13
- 9780809104512
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Paulist Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 404pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Price sticker and 1" ink mark to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
He next spoke briefly about the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad. A dear one who was present asked: "How did the Ascension take place?" The master- may God remember him with favor-replied: "From Mecca to Jerusalem was the Night Journey (isra; Q.17: 1), from Jerusalem to the first heaven was the Ascension (mi'raj), and from the first heaven to the place of 'two bows' length' (Q.53: 7) was the Ascent (ciraj)." Then that dear one elaborated his question, asking: "Some claim that the Ascension was bodily, others that it was spiritual. How can it be both?" On the blessed tongue of the master-may God remember him with favor-came this verse: "Imagine the best, ask not for details!" Fawa'id al-Fu'ad (ca. 1325) The first and foremost representative of a literary genre that attained great popularity among South Asian Sufis, Fawa'id al-Fu'ad or Morals for the Heart, contains the conversations of a major Indian saint, Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya (d. 1325). Though recorded by a poet-disciple Amir Hasan, they were edited by the saint himself, and reflect his chaste, understated tone. In its style Morals for the Heart exemplifies the virtue of Persian prose as a didactic instrument. It communicates the numerous skills, the diverse moods, and the remarkable sensibilities of its austere subject. It captures the spirit of Shaykh Nizam ad-din's towering presence, his absolute loyalty to his spiritual master, his taste for poetry and music, and his empathy with the sufferings of others. We see him crying and laughing and praying. Passionate in his quest for God, he has left in Morals for the Heart a spiritual legacy that still animates and satisfies others who never knew him. Here Muslims discover one more treasure from their pre-modern past. Here non-Muslims encounter an Islam that brings peace and spiritual insight. Here all humanity is stilled by the saga of a Muslim exemplar who enshrined sacrifice and love as the highest goals of human existence when framed by faith in God.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
He next spoke briefly about the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad. A dear one who was present asked: "How did the Ascension take place?" The master- may God remember him with favor-replied: "From Mecca to Jerusalem was the Night Journey (isra; Q.17: 1), from Jerusalem to the first heaven was the Ascension (mi'raj), and from the first heaven to the place of 'two bows' length' (Q.53: 7) was the Ascent (ciraj)." Then that dear one elaborated his question, asking: "Some claim that the Ascension was bodily, others that it was spiritual. How can it be both?" On the blessed tongue of the master-may God remember him with favor-came this verse: "Imagine the best, ask not for details!" Fawa'id al-Fu'ad (ca. 1325) The first and foremost representative of a literary genre that attained great popularity among South Asian Sufis, Fawa'id al-Fu'ad or Morals for the Heart, contains the conversations of a major Indian saint, Shaykh Nizam ad-din Awliya (d. 1325). Though recorded by a poet-disciple Amir Hasan, they were edited by the saint himself, and reflect his chaste, understated tone. In its style Morals for the Heart exemplifies the virtue of Persian prose as a didactic instrument. It communicates the numerous skills, the diverse moods, and the remarkable sensibilities of its austere subject. It captures the spirit of Shaykh Nizam ad-din's towering presence, his absolute loyalty to his spiritual master, his taste for poetry and music, and his empathy with the sufferings of others. We see him crying and laughing and praying. Passionate in his quest for God, he has left in Morals for the Heart a spiritual legacy that still animates and satisfies others who never knew him. Here Muslims discover one more treasure from their pre-modern past. Here non-Muslims encounter an Islam that brings peace and spiritual insight. Here all humanity is stilled by the saga of a Muslim exemplar who enshrined sacrifice and love as the highest goals of human existence when framed by faith in God.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8947
- Title
- Nizam Ad-Din Awliya: Morals for the Heart (Classics of Western Spirituality)
- Author
- Lawrence, Bruce B. (Trans.); Nizami, Khaliq Ahmad (Intro.); Digby, Simon (Preface)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0809104512
- ISBN 13
- 9780809104512
- Publisher
- Paulist Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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