The Garden Of Truth by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition
A concise exploration of traditional spiritual knowledge and the inner life, this work draws on Sufi teachings and perennial wisdom to describe the path from outer religiosity to inward transformation. It emphasizes the role of the heart, meditation, prayer, and sacred symbolism in realizing a living relationship with the Divine, contrasts modern secular assumptions with timeless metaphysical truths, and presents spiritual disciplines as means to cultivate virtue and authentic knowledge. Throughout, it argues for a recovery of the contemplative dimension of religion as the antidote to the spiritual disorientation of contemporary life.
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- 2007
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