The mystical and visionary treatises of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi /
Sheikh Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi, the great illuminist philosopher and mystic of the 12th century, evoked such opposition and hatred in the orthodox of his time that he was put to death, at the insistence and by order of Saladin's nephew in 1191. He became known thereafter as the "Murde...
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Language: | English Arabic Persian |
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London :
Octagon Press,
[1982], ©1982
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Table of Contents:
- The Treatise of the Birds
- The Sound of Gabriel's Wing
- The Red Intellect
- A Day with a Group of Sufis
- On the State of Childhood
- On the Reality of Love
- The Language of the Ants
- The Simurgh's Shrill Cry
- A Tale of Occidental Exile