IBT - What is Sufism?
£7.00
- Author Martin Ling
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Martin Ling
The title of this book has been given some dubious and suspect answers in recent years as far as the Western world is concerned. The growing interest in Sufism brings the need for a reliable introductory book: introductory in the sense it requires no special knowledge on the part of the reader and reliable in that it is not written any more simply that the truth will allow. A book of this size for a theme so broad and complicated is bound to be summary. But after all, “Sufism”, as the author puts it, “is a touch stone, an implacable criterion which reduces everything else, expect its own equivalents, to a flat surface of two dimensions only, being itself the real dimension of height and depth”.
(9789675062087/3430)
The title of this book has been given some dubious and suspect answers in recent years as far as the Western world is concerned. The growing interest in Sufism brings the need for a reliable introductory book: introductory in the sense it requires no special knowledge on the part of the reader and reliable in that it is not written any more simply that the truth will allow. A book of this size for a theme so broad and complicated is bound to be summary. But after all, “Sufism”, as the author puts it, “is a touch stone, an implacable criterion which reduces everything else, expect its own equivalents, to a flat surface of two dimensions only, being itself the real dimension of height and depth”.
(9789675062087/3430)
