The Secrets of Creative Love. The Work of Muhammad Iqbal.
Language: English
Published by Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, London, 1996
- First Edition
- Softcover
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46 pp of English text, 48 pp of Arabic text, 3 color plates, 1 b/w portrait, publisher's original wrapper, New. Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation 5th public lecture 11 November 1996. The pivotal theme of this book is the mystical orientation in the poetry and thoughts of Pakistani Muslim poet, Muhammad Iqbal. Iqbal. discovered the secrets of creative love through the gate of sufism. He considered such love, according to Schimmel, as the force which creates values and can never be content with its creation, a force that changes man incessantly. He believed love an experience that may offer itself to the believer at the middle of the road or at its very end, the supreme form of the creation of values and ideals and the endeavour towards achieving these. #14257.
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- Title
- The Secrets of Creative Love. The Work of Muhammad Iqbal.
- Author
- Schimmel, Annmarie.
- Publisher
- Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, London
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1873992297
- ISBN 13
- 9781873992296
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo.
Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation 5th public lecture, 11 November 1996, the Royal Victoria and Albert Museum. This book focuses on the Sūfi aspects in the poetry of the Muslim philosopher and poet Muĥammad Iqbāl. Annemarie Schimmel discusses Iqbāl’s writings on the secrets of divine love, that is to say on the foundations of Sufism, a route to spiritual clarity and the pinnacle of spiritual development. Divine love in the eyes of Iqbāl is a rare experience, a momentous elevation in the journey of life and the highest manifestation of virtue.
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