This 1935 English translation of a classic Arabic text in's f sm, the mystical aspect of Islam, by A. J. Arberry preserves the beauty and simplicity of the original without departing from a literal translation. Little is known of the author of this treatise Ab Bakr al-Kal b dh, except that he was a lawyer and died in Bukh r in about AD 990. This book is the work on which his fame rests, and is important because it is the earliest extant text to reconcile the position of's f sm and orthodox Islam. The book consists of five ...
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This 1935 English translation of a classic Arabic text in's f sm, the mystical aspect of Islam, by A. J. Arberry preserves the beauty and simplicity of the original without departing from a literal translation. Little is known of the author of this treatise Ab Bakr al-Kal b dh, except that he was a lawyer and died in Bukh r in about AD 990. This book is the work on which his fame rests, and is important because it is the earliest extant text to reconcile the position of's f sm and orthodox Islam. The book consists of five parts: a general introduction to the term's f and an enumeration of the names of the great's f s; a statements of the tenets of Islam, as accepted by the's f s; a discussion of the various 'stations' of the's f s; and a discussion of the various phenomena of's f sm. This is a superb English introduction to's f sm.
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