Garret Wyner

A Renaissance Of Hope

Islamic Spirituality

What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognize myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew nor Gabr nor Moslem.
I am not of the east, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of natures mint, nor of the circling heavens....
I am not of this world, nor of the next, nor of paradise, nor of hell.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless;
Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward.
...I am intoxicated with Loves cup...
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Sufi Mystics:
   Rabi'a al-Adawiya (717-8010 (aka The Muslim St Theresa)
   Abu-hazid (d.875) (aka Bayazid or al-Bistami)
   Al-Hallaj (854-922) (aka The Saint of Baghdad)
   Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
   Farid ad-Din Attar (d. 1230)
   ibn-al-Arabi (1165-1240)
   Jalal as-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
   Abd al-qadir (1078-1166)
   Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi (1155-1191)
   Nur ad-Din al-Shadhili (1196-1258)
   Mawlana ad-Din jami (1414-1492)
   Kabir (1435-1518)
   Muhammad Amin al-Kurdi al-Shafi'i al-Naqshabandi (d. 1914)
   Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)
   Inayat Khan (1882-1926)

Individual Works/Translations:
   Al Ghazzalli: The Confessions, C. Field, tr., 1909)
   Al Ghazzali: Confessions, Some Religious and Moral Teachings (trans. Syed Nawas Ali, 1921)
   W. Watt: The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali (1951)
   L. Zolondek, trans: Al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum al-Din
   Al Hallaj
   S. Kamali, trans: Incoherence of the Philosophers (1958)
   D.S. Margoliouth: "Notice of the Writings of Al-Harith Al-Muhasibu, the First Sufi Author"
   Nawali Ali: Religious and Moral teachings of Al Ghazzali (1921)
   M. Smith: Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow Saints in Islam (1928)
   R. Nicholson, trans: Rumi, Poet and Mystic (1207-1273): Selections (1950)
   Al Shadhili: The Mystical Teachings of Al-Shadhili: Including his Life, Prayers, Letters, &c
   A.J. Arberry, trans: Poems of a Persian Sufi, Being the Quatrains of Baba Tahir (1937)
   Yusuf and Zulaikha, trans. R.T.H. Griffith, London 1882
         (One of the most famous mystical love romances in Persian Lit)

General Works/Translations:
   Syed Ameer Ali: The Spirit of Islam or The Life and Teachings of Mohammed (1896)
   A.J. Arberry, trans: Poems of a Persian Sufi, Being the Quatrains of Baba Tahir (1937)
   T.W. Arnold: Preaching of Islam (1913)
   Sir Thomas Arnold and A. Guillaume: The Legacy of Islam (1931)
   E.G. Browne: Literary History of Persia ((1902-1906)
   Shaikh Muhammed Iqbal: The Development of Metaphysics in Persia (1908)
   W. Irving: Lives of Mahomet and his Successors (1850)
   M. Z. Khan: Islam: Its Meaning for Modern Times
   F. Klein: The Religion of Islam (1906)
   D.B. Macdonald: Muslim Theology (1903)
   D.B. Macdonald: The Religious Life and Attitude In Islam (Chicago, 1909)
   D.S. Margoliouth: The Early Development of Mohammedanism (1913)
   D.S. Margoliouth: Mohammed and the Rise of Islam (1905)
   W. Muir: Life of Mahomet and History of Islam (1856-61)
   E.H. Palmer: Oriental Mysticism, Cambridge 1867
   Reynold A. Nicholson: Rumi: Selections (1950)
   Reynold A. Nicholson: Tales of Mystic Meaning
   Reynold A. Nicholson: The Mystics of Islam (1914)
   Reynold A. Nicholson: Studies in Islamic Mysticism (1921)
   Reynold A. Nicholson: The Idea of Personality in Sufism (1923)
   F. Rahman: Prophecy in Islam
   AnneMarie Schimmel: Mystical Dimensions of Islam
   I. Shah: The Sufis (1964)
   M. Smith, ed: The Sufi Path of Love, An Anthology of Sufism (1954)

Primary Islamic Philosophers (see also Philosophy)
   Al-Ghazali (aka Algazel) (1058-1111)
   Al-Kindi (d. after 870)
   Al-Farabi (875-950)
   Brethren of Purity (10th Century)
   Avicenna (Abu Ali ibn-Sina) (980-1037)
   Averroes (ibn-Rushd) (1126-1198)
   Abu'l-Barakat ibn-Malka (aka Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdadi) (d.1174)
   Fakhr al-Din ar-Razi (1149-1209)
   Mulla Sadra (1571-1640)

Secondary Works
   T. Boer: The History of Philosophy in Islam (1903)
   W. Watt: Islaimic Surveys (1962)
   M. Sharif, ed: A History of Islamic Philosophy (1963)
   S. van den Bergh: The Incoherence of the Incoherence (1954)
   Reynold A. Nicholson: Literary Hisstory of the Arabs (1907)

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