First edition w/no additional printings listed, hardcover, ex-library with pocket to the front pastedown, stamps and brief marks to the title and ToC pages, and a faint label shadow to the spine. The book also has bumps to the cover corners, light sunning to the spine and head, and a hint of smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight and bright, Near Very Good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Book of Wisdom & Intimate Conversations (The Classics of Western Spirituality)

Publisher

Paulist Press, New York

Publication Date

1978

Language

English

ISBN 10

080910279X

ISBN 13

9780809102792

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Synopsis

This highly treasured book embodies the essence of spiritual life in the Islamic tradition. Its author, a well known Sufi saint and sage of 13th century Egypt, lived during the flowering of new Sufi Orders.

Muslims of every age have been drawn to the simple, aphoristic nature of The Book of Wisdom and have learned its practical poetry by heart. This Arabic work is in three parts-the maxims, the treatises and the intimate conversations.

Victor Danner's new translation maintains the timeless quality of this work as an ever-fresh affirmation of the life in the spirit.

Kwaja Abdullah Ansari, Intimate Conversations
translation, introduction and notes by Wheeler M. Thackston.

"O God , if the night of separations is dark, we still rejoice, for
the morning of union is nigh... O God, what grace is this that
you have bestowed on your friends? Whoever recognizes you
finds them and whoever finds you recognizes them."
Kwaja Abdullah Ansari, 1006-1089

One of the major early writers of Persian mystical literature, Ansari is best loved for this collection of simple flowing sentences long used as a devotional handbook.

In these very human dialogues with God, Ansari speaks of a love and longing for his Creator as well as the frustration at his own human frailty.

Language Notes

Text: English, Arabic (translation)

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