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Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Garden of Truth

The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

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The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment, insisting rather on the love of God as the only valid form of adoration. Sufism has made significant contributions to Islamic civilization in music and philosophy, dance and literature. The Sufi poet Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. But in recent centuries Sufism has been a target for some extremist Islamic movements as well as many mod… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-06-162599-2
  • EAN: 9780061625992
  • Produktnummer: 3634620
  • Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.7 cm 246 g
  • Gewicht: 246

Über den Autor


Seyyed Hossein Nasr is university professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. Author of over fifty books, Professor Nasr is a well-known and highly respected intellectual figure both in the West and in the Islamic world. Born in Tehran, raised from the age of twelve in the United States, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard University, Nasr is well qualified to explain Islam to a Western audience. He appears frequently on Meet the Press, as well as other national news shows.

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