Description:Sea Without Shore is a practical manualfor those travelling the path of Sufismor Islamic mysticism, which strives,in Junayd's words, "to separate theBeginninglessly Eternal from thatwhich originates in time," in a word,to be with the Divine withoutany relation.The book opens with narrativesof five Sufis met by the author inSyria, Jordan, and Turkey whoselives exemplified the knowledge andpractice of the Sufi path.The second part is a completehandbook of the method and ruleof the Shadhili order of Sufism,transmitted to the author by hisspiritual mentor, Sheikh 'Abdal-Rahman al-Shaghouri--fromdevotions, dhikr or 'invocation,'and metaphysical doctrine, to howa Sufi lives, marries, and earns a livingin the modern world.A third part treats wider theologicalquestions such as other faiths andmysticisms, universalism and thefinality of Islam, the promise of Godto Jews and Christians, evolution andreligion, and divine Wisdom andJustice in the face of human suffering.The book provides an indelibleportrait of a vibrant mystical traditionspanning seven and a half centuriesof endeavor to know the Divineface-to-face.Sheikh Nuh Keller was born in the US in 1954. He read philosophy and classical Arabic at the University of Chicago and UCLA, and became a Muslim in Cairo in 1977.He was authorized as a sheikh inthe Shadhili order by Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman in 1996 and is the leading authority on traditional Islam in the West. He has studied jurisprudence, hadith, and othersubjects with traditional scholars, produced Reliance of theTraveller, the 1st translation of astandard Islamic legal reference in aEnglish to be certified byal-Azhar, the Muslim world's oldestinstitution of higher learning. Amonghis other works and translations areSufism in Islam, al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, Port in a Storm, and an illuminated calligraphic edition of Dala'il al-Khayrat.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path. To get started finding Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Sea Without Shore is a practical manualfor those travelling the path of Sufismor Islamic mysticism, which strives,in Junayd's words, "to separate theBeginninglessly Eternal from thatwhich originates in time," in a word,to be with the Divine withoutany relation.The book opens with narrativesof five Sufis met by the author inSyria, Jordan, and Turkey whoselives exemplified the knowledge andpractice of the Sufi path.The second part is a completehandbook of the method and ruleof the Shadhili order of Sufism,transmitted to the author by hisspiritual mentor, Sheikh 'Abdal-Rahman al-Shaghouri--fromdevotions, dhikr or 'invocation,'and metaphysical doctrine, to howa Sufi lives, marries, and earns a livingin the modern world.A third part treats wider theologicalquestions such as other faiths andmysticisms, universalism and thefinality of Islam, the promise of Godto Jews and Christians, evolution andreligion, and divine Wisdom andJustice in the face of human suffering.The book provides an indelibleportrait of a vibrant mystical traditionspanning seven and a half centuriesof endeavor to know the Divineface-to-face.Sheikh Nuh Keller was born in the US in 1954. He read philosophy and classical Arabic at the University of Chicago and UCLA, and became a Muslim in Cairo in 1977.He was authorized as a sheikh inthe Shadhili order by Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman in 1996 and is the leading authority on traditional Islam in the West. He has studied jurisprudence, hadith, and othersubjects with traditional scholars, produced Reliance of theTraveller, the 1st translation of astandard Islamic legal reference in aEnglish to be certified byal-Azhar, the Muslim world's oldestinstitution of higher learning. Amonghis other works and translations areSufism in Islam, al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, Port in a Storm, and an illuminated calligraphic edition of Dala'il al-Khayrat.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path. To get started finding Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.