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The spiritual writings of Amir �Abd al-Kader / Michel Chodkiewicz ; translated by a team under the direction of James Chrestensen and Tom Manning.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French, Arabic Series: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585045887
  • 9780585045887
Uniform titles:
  • Maw�aqif. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spiritual writings of Amir �Abd al-Kader.DDC classification:
  • 297/.2 20
LOC classification:
  • BP166 .A232713 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- I. On the Way. 1 God has Stolen my "I" from Me -- 2. The Two Ways -- 3. On Pure Love -- 4. Perfect Adoration -- 5. Oh, thou, Soul at Peace -- 6. What then has He Lost who has Found You? -- 7. On the Necessity of a Spiritual Master -- 8. The Two Deaths -- 9. When the Sight will be Dazed ... -- 10. On the Prayer by Day and the Prayer by Night -- 11. On Certitude -- 12. He who Speaks and he who Listens -- 13. On the True Fear of God -- 14. When the Sun will Rise in the Place of its Setting -- II. On the Unicity of Being. 15. On the Supreme Identity -- 16. The Truth which should be Concealed -- 17. On the Eternal Solitude of the Divine Essence -- 18. Being and Non-being -- 19. And He is with you wherever you are ... -- 20. The Exclusive Orientation -- 21. Concerning Universal Life -- 22. The Secrets of the Lam-Alif -- III. The Theophanies. 23. The Face of God -- 24. Transcendence and Immanence -- 25. The Light of the Heavens and of the Earth -- 26. The Theophanies and their Receptacles -- 27. The Minaret of the Divine Names -- IV. On God and the Gods. 28. He is that ... -- 29. The God Conditioned by Belief -- 30. Concerning ''Learned Ignorance" -- V. On Secondary Causes. 31. Divine Knowledge and Divine Decree -- 32. Concerning the Attribution of Acts -- 33. On Evil -- 34. On Secondary Causes -- 35. The Return to God -- VI. On the Prophet. 36. On the Imitation of the Prophet -- 37. Concerning Extinction in the Prophet -- 38. Concerning Abandonment to God -- 39. Unitive Vision and Separative Vision -- VII. I am God, I am Creature ... 40. I am God, I am Creature.
Summary: Behind 'Abd al-Kader's role of brilliant warrior lay another, that of spiritual master in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi, the Shaikh al-Akbar (the greatest shaikh). The thirty-nine texts translated here were chosen because they represent the major themes of the teaching of 'Abd al-Kader. Many are commentaries on passages from the writings of Ibn 'Arabi. They offer a rare opportunity to share the illumination of a master writing from his own direct experience. -- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-228) and index.

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Introduction -- I. On the Way. 1 God has Stolen my "I" from Me -- 2. The Two Ways -- 3. On Pure Love -- 4. Perfect Adoration -- 5. Oh, thou, Soul at Peace -- 6. What then has He Lost who has Found You? -- 7. On the Necessity of a Spiritual Master -- 8. The Two Deaths -- 9. When the Sight will be Dazed ... -- 10. On the Prayer by Day and the Prayer by Night -- 11. On Certitude -- 12. He who Speaks and he who Listens -- 13. On the True Fear of God -- 14. When the Sun will Rise in the Place of its Setting -- II. On the Unicity of Being. 15. On the Supreme Identity -- 16. The Truth which should be Concealed -- 17. On the Eternal Solitude of the Divine Essence -- 18. Being and Non-being -- 19. And He is with you wherever you are ... -- 20. The Exclusive Orientation -- 21. Concerning Universal Life -- 22. The Secrets of the Lam-Alif -- III. The Theophanies. 23. The Face of God -- 24. Transcendence and Immanence -- 25. The Light of the Heavens and of the Earth -- 26. The Theophanies and their Receptacles -- 27. The Minaret of the Divine Names -- IV. On God and the Gods. 28. He is that ... -- 29. The God Conditioned by Belief -- 30. Concerning ''Learned Ignorance" -- V. On Secondary Causes. 31. Divine Knowledge and Divine Decree -- 32. Concerning the Attribution of Acts -- 33. On Evil -- 34. On Secondary Causes -- 35. The Return to God -- VI. On the Prophet. 36. On the Imitation of the Prophet -- 37. Concerning Extinction in the Prophet -- 38. Concerning Abandonment to God -- 39. Unitive Vision and Separative Vision -- VII. I am God, I am Creature ... 40. I am God, I am Creature.

Behind 'Abd al-Kader's role of brilliant warrior lay another, that of spiritual master in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi, the Shaikh al-Akbar (the greatest shaikh). The thirty-nine texts translated here were chosen because they represent the major themes of the teaching of 'Abd al-Kader. Many are commentaries on passages from the writings of Ibn 'Arabi. They offer a rare opportunity to share the illumination of a master writing from his own direct experience. -- Back cover.

English.

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