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The teachings of Ahmad al-Ghazali changed the course of Persian Sufism forever, paving the way for luminaries such as Rumi, Attar, and Hafiz. Yet he remains a poorly understood …
The Anonymity of a Commentator examines the life and writings of the Egyptian Sufi-scholar Zakariyya al-Ansari (d. 926/1520), the longest-serving chief Shafi'i justice to the …
This is a rare study of a late premodern Islamic thinker, Ibrahim al- Bajuri, a nineteenth-century scholar and rector of Cairo's al-Azhar University. Aaron Spevack explores al- …
According to Muhammad, "e;God is beautiful and He loves beauty."e; Yet, Islam is rarely associated with beauty, and today, a politicized Islam dominates many perceptions. …
Ghouls, ifrits, and a panoply of other jinn have long haunted Muslim cultures and societies. These also include jinn doppelgangers (qarin, pl. qurana?), the little-studied and …
Dreams and visions have always been important in Islamic societies. Yet, their pervasive impact on Muslim communities and on the lives of individual Muslims remains largely unknown …
Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the …