The Way of the Sufi
8 best books like The Way of the Sufi (Idries Shah): The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Holy Science, The Bezels of Wisdom, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
| 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 | 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,...
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
| Author | Chögyam Trungpa |
| ISBN | 1570629579 |
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
| Author | Sri Yukteswar Giri |
| ISBN | 0876120516 |
This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar, the revered guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment. He also...
| 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,...
| 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...
