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Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

Twentieth-Century Sufi Saints: Shaykh Ahmad al-’Alawi & Fatima al-Yashrutiyya

Selections translated from Shaykh Ahmad al-’Alawi’s ‘The Divine Graces’ and a ‘Treatise on the Invocation’ provide the reader with a stunning interpretation of the inner meaning of prayer. A translation of Fatima al-Yashrutiyya’s auto-biography introduces us most movingly to the life of a female Sufi raised by her father who was a great Shaykh in Palestine, and the life within this Shadhiliyya zawiya. Photographs are included.

Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak

Sufism and the Remembrance of God

This book engages the reader from the first page. Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak explains the meaning of true love in the context of Islamic spirituality.

“Even for the seeker of the love of God and of Truth, the object of love is hidden, veiled, invisible. It is not because it does not exist that we do not see it, but because we are asleep and our eyes are closed. Either we shall stay asleep and dream our life away, waking up only when we die and meeting Reality with the horror of meeting the unaccustomed; or we shall be awakened by the loving kiss of a sage and find faith, love and hope…” – Sh. Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Helveti

Reza Shah-Kazemi

As a result of world events over the past few years, Islam has entered our consciousness in an unprecedented way. The Qur’an, guiding text for over one billion Muslims, is being looked to for answers to questions like: does the Qur’an promote peace and harmony or discord and conflict, does it contribute to pluralism or exclusivism, is its message spiritual or fanatical?

In The Other in the Light of the One, Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi illustrates how, throughout the centuries, Sufism has traditionally been a bastion against two tendencies: worldliness and literalism. Based on a profound study of the Sufi perspectives of the like of Ibn Arabi, Kashani, Rumi and Ghazali, The Other in the Light of the One is an attempt to answer the above questions and is an invitation to study the universality that is undoubtedly present in the Qur’an. Its aim is to relate some of the most profound interpretations of the Qur’an to philosophical and spiritual questions concerning interfaith dialogue. However, the purpose is not to just reproduce the ideas of the Sufis, but to build upon principles, to take advantage of insights, and to apply them creatively to contemporary conditions. Shah-Kazemi illustrates how a universalist perspective based on Sufi hermeneutics provides a third way between secular pluralism and religious exclusivism.

The Other in the Light of the One provides the faithful of all the different religious communities with the basis for dialogue and mutual enrichment within dimensions of religious life and thought that go beyond the outward forms of belief, yielding fruit not only in the practical domain of peaceful coexistence, but also and above all, in the fertile fields of metaphysical insight, immutable values, contemplative inspiration and spiritual realisation. For Muslims, The Other in the Light of the One offers a pioneering view of da‘wa, in that it proposes effective ways of putting into practice the many Qur’anic verses that commend discourse with others in a manner that is ahsan ‘finest, most beautiful’.

Amatullah Armstrong

Journeying With the Sabri Brothers

This book recounts the unfolding of a dream and the journey that took the author from the midst of an Australian bush-land paradise to the rapture of devotion at the Shrines of the Great Sufi Saints in Pakistan and India. It is a story of yearning and searching for the Beloved, a story of love and loneliness.

Ibn Ata’ Illah al-Iskandari

‘the Islamic work ethic explained’

“The Book of Illumination (Kitab al-Tanwir fi Isqat al-Tadbir) has been the basic training manual for Sufis in North Africa, and serves as an indispensible introduction to Ibn Ata’illah’s more advanced writings, such as his Sufi Aphorisms (Kitab al-Hikam).  In this age of conspicuous consumption and capitalist greed, a translation of the Book of Illumination has special value. It upholds the spiritual value of work while urging readers to simplify their reliance on material means and question their obsession with possessing and craving.  It argues for a spirituality of living in the world without relying on the world, a spirituality that is more relevant now than ever.” — Publisher’s Description

Contents

Desisting From Selfish Calculation

Resisting Selfish Calculation

Consequences of Selfish Calculation

The Miracle of Abandoning Selfish Calculation

Persisting Despite Selfish Calculation

Avoiding Selfish Calculation in Work and Worship

Overcoming Selfish Calculation

Desisting From Anxiety About Provision

Bodily Needs

Understanding Provision’s Guarantee

Seeking Provision

Receiving Provision

Appendix 1: The Sign of Success on the Spiritual Path

Appendix 2: The Challenge of Gender

Maulana Syed Mohammad Zauqi Shah

Discourses of spiritual training by an eminent contemporary Shaikh of the Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent

Frithjof Schuon

New Translation with selected letters

A collection of essays, including:

Sufism: Doctrine and Method

Sufism and Islam

Vision of God According to Shaykh Ibn al-Arabi

Approaching Sufism

The Prophetic Model of the Spiritual Master in Islam

Haqiqa and Sharia in Islam

Sufi Answers to Questions on Ultimate Reality

Sufism in Muslim Spain

Women and the Feminine In the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Sacred Music and Dance in Islam

The Spiritual Needs of Western Man and the Message of Sufism

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

A Guide to the 17 Ruinous Traits, The 10 Steps to Discipleship, 6 Realities of the Heart

This book provides a step-by-step guide, as handed down from the Masters of the Naqshbandi Way, to cleaning the self of bad traits. This effort to cleanse ourselves of bad character is required of every seeker, indeed of every muslim.