Introduction to Sufi Doctrine

by Titus Burckhardt

Overview

Titus Burckhardt''s masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933316970
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	04/02/2008
Series:	The Spiritual Classics Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	557 KB

About the Author

Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) was a leading member of the “traditionalist” or “perennialist” school of comparative religious thought, well-known for its espousal of the “transcendent unity of religions.” Burckhardt was also an expert on Islam, Islamic arts and crafts, and its spiritual dimension, Sufism.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2008 Edition   William C. Chittick     ix
Preface     xiii
The Nature of Sufism
At-Tasawwuf     3
Sufism and Mysticism     9
Sufism and Pantheism     17
Knowledge and Love     21
The Branches of the Doctrine     25
Sufi Interpretation of the Qur'an     31
The Doctrinal Foundations
The Aspects of Unity     43
Creation     49
The Archetypes     53
The "Renewing of Creation at Each Instant"     55
The Spirit     59
Universal Man     63
Union in the Doctrine of Muhyi-d-Din ibn `Arabi     69
Spiritual Realization
Three Aspects of the Way: Doctrine, Virtue, and Spiritual Alchemy     75
The Intellectual Faculties     83
Rites     89
Meditation     95
Contemplation, According to Muhyi-d-Din ibn `Arabi     97
Glossary and Index     103
Biographical Notes     117