Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts - Paperback

by William C. Chittick (Author)

Translations and analyses of three Persian Sufi texts, offering a perspective on Islam that is rarely met in modern works.

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As stated in the introduction, two of the three texts translated in this book focus on the contents of Islamic faith, while the third concentrates on the details of practice--that is, the works that Muslims should perform in order to observe the Shariah.

Author Biography

William C. Chittick is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at State University of New York, Stony Brook. His other books include A Shi'ite Anthrology; The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination; and The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, all published by SUNY Press.