The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition PDF
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Also by SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR A Young Muslim 5 Guide to the Modern World An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines Ideals and Realities of Islam Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization Islam and the Plight of Modern Man Islamic Art and Spirituality Islamic Life and Thought Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present Islamic Science: An fllustrated Study Knowledge and the Sacred Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man Muhammad: Man of God The Pilgrimage of Life and the Wisdom of Rumi Poems of the Way Religion and the Order of Nature Science and Civilization in Islam Sufi Essays The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia The Heart of Islam The Need for Sacred Science Three Muslim Sages Traditional Islam in the Modern World • The Vision·and Promise of Sufism, Islam 5 Mystical Tradition SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR • Harper One An Imprint ofHaxperColliruPNb/Jshers • HarperOne THE GARDEN OF TRUTH: The Vision and Promise if Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition. Copyright © 2007 by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or repro duced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers, IO East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promo tional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins Web site: http:/ /www.harpercollins.com HarperCollins®,. ®,and HarperOne™ are trademarks ofHarperCollins Publishers. Map spread on pages x-xi by Topaz Inc. FIRST HARPERCOLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2008 Library if Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The garden of truth : the vision and practice of Sufism, Islam's mystical tradition I Seyyed Hossein Nasr. -Ist ed. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-06-I6i599-2 I; Sufism-Doctrines. 2. Sufism-Customs and practices. I. Title. BPI89.3.N364 2007 297.4-dc22 o8 09 IO 11 I2 RRD(H) IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I • In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the All-Merciful CONTENTS List of Transliterations ix Map of the Islamic World x Introduction xiii PART ONE One~ What It Means to Be Human J.Vho Are~ and J.Vhat Are J# Doing Here? 3 PART TWO Tw~Truth The Knowledge That Illuminates and Delivers from the Bondage of Ignorance 29 'Jlu.ee~Love and Beauty The Fire That Attracts and Consumes, the Peace That Calms and Liberates 59 vii Four~ Goodness and Human Action To Do His Will, to Conform to the Divine Norm 8 I Five~How Do We Reach the Garden of Truth? The Path to the One 103 PART THREE Six~Access to the Center Sufism Here and Now 139 PART FOUR Appendix One~ The Sufi Tradition and the Sufi Orders Reflections on the Manifestation of Sufism in Time and Space 163 AppendixTw~The Tradition ofTheoretical Sufism and Gnosis 209 Notes 235 Glossary ofTechnical Terms 239 Selected Bibliography of Works in· English 24 7 Index 249 viii LIST OF TRANSLITERATIONS Arabic and transliterated Roman characters " j, long vowels Persian letters added a y b j;, ? ~I to Arabic alphabet ~ t t J ii ~ p ~ th t gh '...? 'i (t ch ~ J J f ;s zh c 1). J q g t kh .!l k d J 1 .) ~ dh i m short vowels diphthongs ) r iJ n ~ a J..!.. aw j z h ...!.. u ~...!.. ai (ay) J' J w -;- .(.> -;- ayy (final form 'i) .; sh ~ y )'-' uww (final form ii) ah; at .J' 4 Jl (article) al- and '1 ~ ix
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