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Islamic Spirituality


  The Holy Qur'an
Translated by Muhammad Ali
The Holy Qur'an is more than a book of laws, but a tool for spiritual and moral advancement. Featured in this edition are introductory notes at the beginning of each chapter, numbered verses, a glossary, and Arabic text alongside the English translation. Hardcover/1256pp
#M1006     $24.95
  Muslim Saints and Mystics—Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya' (Memorial of the Saints)
Farid al-Din Attar
Sufis aside, Westerners seldom have the opportunity to appreciate, much less ponder, the insights of Islam's mystics. Which is a great shame; the third great monotheistic religion has its own share of saints and sages, and the Persian style here is very distinctive. 'Once Rab'e sent Hasan three things3a piece of wax, a needle, and a hair. 'Be like wax,' she said. 'Illumine the world, and yourself burn. Be like a needle, always be working naked. When you have done these two things, a thousand years will be for you as a hair.'" Softcover/288pp
#M1000     $12.95
  The Sufi Path of Love —The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
William C. Chittick
A close analysis of Islam's greatest mystical poet indeed, one of the greatest mystical poets anywhere. The glory of immanence shines through. Softcover/433pp
#M1002     $19.95
  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam —The Edward Fitzgerald Translation
Omar Khayyam
We couldn't resist including these well-known quatrains, half tonic and half opiate, in our catalog. Gordon Ross's line drawings are hauntingly beautiful; seldom has spiritual yearning been better illustrated. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on." Softcover/178pp (Indian edition)
#S7041     $3.95
  Daughter of Fire —A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
Irina Tweedie
An account of 5 years spent with a Sufi spiritual master, an amazing record of inner transformation: the agonies, the resistance, the long and frightening bouts with the purifying fires of Kundalini, the perserverance, the movements towards surrender, the longing, and finally the all consuming love. A classic work, highly recommended. Softcover/828pp
#M1004     $19.95
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The Chasm of Fire
Irina Tweedie
This is an abridged edition of Daughter of Fire, above. Softcover/203pp
#M1003     $15.95

 

The Essential Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
Jaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), a saint of the Sufi tradition, is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest mystics and poets. For Rumi, everything that people did, no matter how compulsive, ridiculous, or seemingly inconsequential, offered a glimpse into the inner life. But the true essence of Rumi's poetry is the constant remembrance that everything is God. Softcover/310pp
#M1007     $12.00
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  Birdsong —53 Short Poems
Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks
More transcendent poems by the great Sufi poet. Softcover/63pp.
#M1010      $9.00
  Delicious Laughter —Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi
Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks
Barks' continuing work on Rumi's six—volume masterwork, Mathnawi. Softcover/146pp.
#M1011    $7.50
  Like This —43 Odes
Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks
More poems by Rumi in which he emphasizes the human being as a resemblance of God. Softcover/64pp.
#M1012    $7.50
  One—Handed Basket Weaving —Poems on the Theme of Work
Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks
More of Barks' continuing work on Rumi's six—volume masterwork, Mathnawi, where he explores the nature of action. Softcover/132pp.
#M1013     $9.00
  Say I am You —Poetry Interspersed with Stories of Rumi and Shams
Rumi Translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Rumi and Shams open the way of mystical conversation. This poetry remembers that friendship as continous spontaneous longing. Softcover/128pp.
#M1014    $12.00
  We Are Three
Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks
This new collection of quatrains, odes, and long rambles through the Mathnawi is full of fables and stories all saturated with Rumi's teaching. Softcover/87pp.
#M1015     $7.50
  Hazrat Inayat Khan —A Biography
Elisabeth Keesing
The story of the founder of the universal Sufi Movement. His goal was to make known 'the idea of unity, which is at the root of everything.' Hardcover/192pp.
#M1005    $11.95
  From Onions to Pearls —A Journal of Awakening and Deliverance
Satyam Nadeen
Satyam Nadeen had a spiritual awakening as a result of a prison experience. An inspired work. Softcover/199pp.
#M1020    $12.95
Audio
  'I Want Burning' —The Ecstatic World of Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla
Translated and Read by Coleman Barks
Over 50 transcendent poems by history's great Sufi poets, including Rumi, Hafiz, and Lalla (the 14th century female Kashmiri poet who danced naked while performing her work.) Audio Cassette/90 minutes
#M1009A     $10.95
  Like This —More Poems of Rumi
Translated and read by Coleman Barks
22 of Rumi's most beautiful poems, primarily selected from Like This. Audio Cassette.
#M1012A     $10.95