Mystical Dimensions of Islam

10 best books like Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Annemarie Schimmel): The Divan, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective, Essential Sufism, The Bezels of Wisdom, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife, The Way of the Sufi

The Divan

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...

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Author	Martin Lings
ISBN	1594771537

Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English...

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus

Author	Joel Chandler Harris
ISBN	0618154299

I've wanted to read this book for a while because my father always told me stories about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox when I was younger. The one I remembered the most was the famous Tar-Baby story which was very similar to the version I'd heard (my dad has always been a good storyteller). At first, I was intimidated...

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

Author	Amina Wadud
ISBN	0195128362

Islam is misogynist--a common claim by those who criticize it. Most often such critics are non-Muslims who have never picked up a Qur'an and have no intention of ever doing so. Their concern for women's rights often disappears too, once the discussion has left Islam.

So what might someone who...

Essential Sufism

Author

James Fadiman

The definitive compendium of Sufi wisdom, 'Essential Sufism' draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism. Embracing all eras and highlighting the many faces of Sufism, this collection provides a matchless overview of the...

The Bezels of Wisdom

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...

The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi

Author	Rumi
ISBN	0873957245

This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey of the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God,...

Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

Author	Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
ISBN	0008603712

In this book readers are lead on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting and pilgrimage.

Consisting of a selection of writings by a towering figure in Islamic history, Imam al-Ghazali, this book helps...

Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

Author	Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
ISBN	0946621136

This is the first English translation of the last chapter of Al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality...

The Way of the Sufi

Author	Idries Shah
ISBN	0140192522

In this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, contemplations, letters, lectures, and teaching stories that together form an illuminating introduction to this unique body of thought.
Sufism, the...

Islam and the Destiny of Man

Author

Charles Le Gai Eaton

Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brought up as an agnostic and embraced Islam at an early age after writing a book (commissioned by T.S. Eliot)...

Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

Author	Imam al-Mawlud
ISBN	1929694156

Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf

This exploration of Islamic spirituality delves into the psychological diseases and cures of the heart. Diseases examined include miserliness, envy, hatred, treachery, rancour, malice, ostentation,...

The Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam

Author

Muhammad Iqbal

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a compilation of lectures delivered by Muhammad Iqbal on Islamic philosophy and published in 1930. These lectures were delivered by Iqbal in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh. The last chapter, "Is Religion Possible?", was added to the book from the...