The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition
10 best books like The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition (Seyyed Hossein Nasr): Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم, The Conference of the Birds, Islam: A Short History, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, Malcolm X: The Last Speeches, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom, By Any Means Necessary, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kur'an, and Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be...
| 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,...
El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...
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...
Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
| Author | Malcolm X |
| ISBN | 0873485432 |
If you read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the most widely-read of the books about Malcolm, you will get an idea of the general development of his self-education in prison, and of his attraction to, and eventual prominence in, the Nation of Islam. This volume, in contrast, shows the speeches he made...
| 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...
| Author | Malcolm X |
| ISBN | 0873487540 |
Malcolm X
Unlike most of the people I’m writing to I don’t like to read, but if I were to read a book I would choose the Biography of Malcolm X. Like most of the civil rights activists Malcolm wasn’t content with being called a “nigger” for the rest of his life. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska....
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A finalist for the Guardian First Book Award
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins...
