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Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life
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University of California Press
Publication Date
c1998
Language
English
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From the Book
Surat ar-Rahman, the Merciful
Writing sacred text
Surat Yusuf
Hadith : prophetic and sacred
Sacred text and architecture
Three commentaries on Surat al-Fatiha, the Opening
Treatise on the principles of tafsir / Ibn Taymiya
Sacred text and the mihrab
The canons of taʼwil / Al-Ghazali
Etiquette in recitation / Nawawi
On the necessity of proper intention / Sharaf ad-Din Maneri
Worship as an institution of faith / Nurcholish Madjid
Hadith on the five daily ritual prayers / Tabari
Ritual and creed in Moses' conversation with God
Qurʼan commentary on pilgrimage ritual / Hamka
Prayers of holy women
Marthiya : Imam Husayn's conversation with God
Madih : three contemporary poems honoring Imam Riza
Naʻt : poem in praise of Muhammad
Ginan : Ismaʻili petition of a yearning soul
A radio Mawlid sermon
Acrostic poem in praise of Muhammad
Naʻt in praise of Muhammad
Interpreting Muhammad's life in modern times / Taha Hussein
Asiya, an exemplary woman in Thaʻlabi's Stories of the Prophets
Munawi's life of Rabiʻa al-ʻAdawiya
Three women of Iberia
Holy women of Morocco and Egypt
The life of Sufi Badhni
Jabarti's account of ʻAli al-Bayyumi
The Qurʼanic paradigm of wisdom : Surat Luqman
Aphorisms of ʻAli
Sayings attribute to Muʻin ad-Din Chishti
Telling tales : a miracle of Mulla Hadda
Edifying anecdotes : Ziyaʼ ad-Din Nakshabi
A poet's intentions / Mir ʻAli-Shir Nawaʼi
Commentary on Shabistar's Garden of Mystery / Shams ad-Din Lahiji
Allegory of beauty and love / Yahya Suhrawardi Maqtul
Two teaching parables / Sanaʼi of Ghazna
Gayo didactic religious poetry / Mude Kala
Rubaʻiyat, Ghazal, Qasida / Ibn al-Farid
Munawi's literary hagiography of Ibn al-Farid
Ghazal / Jalal al-Din Rumi
Ghazal / Muhammad Shirin Maghribi
Naʻt's / Nuri and Shad
Ghazal / Bibi Hayati
Shaykh Luqman : a contemporary life in a traditional context
Historical epigraphy of Mamluk Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Two Waqf documents : Sultan Barquq and Khwaja Ahrar
Mamluk Sultan Barquq's Waqf
A Central Asian Waqf of Naqshbandi Sufi Master Khwaja Ahrar
Treatises on chivalry / Shihab ad-Din ʻUmar Suhrawardi
Sitt ash-Sham of Damascus
Works of Timurid and Ottoman women
Architectural past, present, and future in America
Sultan Abu 'l-Hasan ʻAli's architectural patronage / Ibn Marzuq
The rediscovery and refurbishment of ʻAli's Tomb / Khwandamir
Apologia / Sultan-Husayn Mirza
Teaching Islam in medieval Iran : Ahmad Samʻani's Refreshment of Spirits
Islam in China : Wang Daiyu's Real Commentary on the True Teaching
From Arabic into Javanese : The Gift Addressed to the Spirit of the Prophet
Women as scholars and teachers
Teaching with pictures : three paintings of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Muhammad Husayni Gesu Daraz on love
A letter on the true names of God / Shaykh Husayn
Treatise on journeying / Majd ad-Din Baghdadi
The seven invocations and the seven journeys / Vahidi
Lexicon of mystical terms / Sayyid Jaʻfar Sajjadi
The diary of Ahmad Wahib
Muhammad's night journey and ascension / Tabari
Rabiʻa's dream
Amir Khusraw of Delhi's poetic vision
Gesu Daraz's vision of Jesus
Visionary experiences of ʻAli.
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9780520209763
9780520919907
9780585130743
9780520919907
9780585130743
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