Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
10 best books like Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi (Henry Corbin): Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, The Divan, The Conference of the Birds, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, Complete Works, The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition, The Journey to the East
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0143039962 |
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 9646534783 |
The Persian poet Hafez (1320-1389) is best known as a Sufi mystic who incorporated elements of Sufism into his verses. The state of God-Realisation is symbolised through union with a Beloved, and drinking the wine of spiritual love.
This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile...
| Author | Attar of Nishapur |
| ISBN | 0393355543 |
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul’s search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world’s birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh,...
Inside A Lover's Heart There's Another World, And Yet Another Rumi's masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks's exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's...
| Author | Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur |
| ISBN | 0375761373 |
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0060955503 |
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.
This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...
| Author | Daniel C. Matt |
| ISBN | 0062511637 |
I first read this book several years ago for a course I took while working on my master’s degree. As I decided to incorporate weekly meditations in my world religion course, I wanted to revisit some of the mystical writings of each tradition I cover. This is mostly selections of Kabbalistic writings,...
| Author | Annemarie Schimmel |
| ISBN | 0807812714 |
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel,...
| Author | Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| ISBN | 0060797223 |
The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment,...
| Author | Hermann Hesse |
| ISBN | 0312421680 |
In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both...
| Author | Ibn Arabi |
| ISBN | 0809123312 |
Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...
