Octavo, 221 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Gray spine with white text. Covers have slight creasing to spine, sticker on rear cover, and mild edge wear. Textblock has light brown marks on fore edge. Shelved ND-E. 1377759. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title: STRIVING FOR DIVINE UNION: SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FOR SUHRAWARDI SUFIS
Publisher: Routledge, London
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0700716874
ISBN 13: 9780700716876
Binding: Softcover
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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This book examines the theological, philosophical and Islamic mystical dimensions of the Suhraward� sufi order from the 13th to 15th centuries. The Suhraward�s were a legally grounded and intellectually vibrant sufi order whose mystical path was based on exchanges and debates on the Qur'an and on the Prophet's customs. The book analyses their interpretation of sacred texts: the Qur'an, hadiths, sunna, and malfuzat. This created a unique self-understanding, which developed specific sufi spiritual exercises. The book discusses new important ways of thinking about the sufi hermeneutics of the Qur'an and its contribution to Islamic intellectual and spiritual life.

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Qamar-ul Huda is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Theology at Boston College and writes about medieval Islamic texts and mystical sufi treatises. He earned his doctorate from UCLA in the field of Islamic intellectual history and currently is working on sufi commentaries of the Qur'an and is translating a number of sufi treatises dealing with the Suhrawardi sufi path.

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