The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
7 best books like The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur): The Conference of the Birds, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
| 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,...
| 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...
| 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 | Henry Corbin |
| ISBN | 0691058342 |
"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality." —From...
| 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...
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,...
