The Doctrine of the Sufis by Abu Bakr Al-Kalabadhi (1977, Trade Paperback)

Cambridge University Press

0521292182

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Abu Bakr Al-Kalabadhi

Doctrine of the Sufis

Trade Paperback

English

1977

Textbook

192 Pages

8.5in

0.4in

5.5in

8.8 Oz

Bp189.3

Introduction; Prooemium; 1. How the Sufis account for their being called Sufis; 2. A list of the famous men among the Sufis; 3. A list of the Sufis who published the sciences of allusion in books and treatises; 4. A list of the Sufis who have written on conduce; 5. Their doctrine of unity; 6. Their doctrine of the attributes; 7. Their variance as to whether God has ceased creating; 8. Their variance concerning names; 9. Their doctrine of the Qur'an; 10. Their variance concerning the nature of speech; 11. Their doctrine of vision; 12. Their variance as to the Prophet's vision; 13. Their doctrine of predestination and the creation of acts; 14. Their doctrine of capacity; 15. Their doctrine of compulsion; 16. Their doctrine of advantageousness; 17. Their doctrine of promise and threat; 18. Their doctrine of intercession; 19. Their doctrine of children; 20. Their doctrine of the duties imposed by God on adults; 21. Their doctrine of the gnosis of god; 22. Their variance as to the nature of gnosis; 23. Their doctrine of spirit; 24. Their doctrine of angels and messengers; 25. Their doctrine of the faults ascribed to the prophets; 26. Their doctrine of the miracles of saints; 27. Their doctrine of faith; 28. Their doctrine of the realities of faith; 29. Their doctrine of the legal schools; 30. Their doctrine of earning; 31. Of the Sufi sciences of the states; 32. Of the nature and meaning of Sufism; 33. Of the revelation of the thoughts; 34. Of Sufism and being at ease with God; 35. Their doctrine of repentance; 36. Their doctrine of abstinence; 37. Their doctrine of patience; 38. Their doctrine of poverty; 39. Their doctrine of humility; 40. Their doctrine of fear; 41. Their doctrine of piety; 42. Their doctrine of sincerity; 43. Their doctrine of gratitude; 44. Their doctrine of trust; 45. Their doctrine of satisfaction; 46. Their doctrine of certainty; 47. Their doctrine of recollection; 48. Their doctrine of intimacy; 49. Their doctrine of nearness; 50. Their doctrine of union; 51. Their doctrine of love; 52. Their doctrine of detachment and separation; 53. Their doctrine of ecstasy; 54. Their doctrine of overmastery; 55. Their doctrine of intoxication; 56. Their doctrine of absence and presence; 57. Their doctrine of concentration and separation; 58. Their doctrine of revelation and veiling; 59. Their doctrine of passing-away and persistence; 60. Their doctrine of the realities of gnosis; 61. Their doctrine of unification; 62. Their doctrine of the description of the gnostic; 63. Their doctrine of the seeker and the sought; 64. Their doctrine of toiling and divine practice; 65. Their doctrine of discoursing to men; 66. Of their piety and pious endeavours; 67. Of God's favours to the Sufis and His warning them by means of supernatural voices; 68. Of God's warning them by gifts of insight; 69. Of God's warning them by means of thoughts; 70. Of God's warning them through visions and rare favours; 71. God's favours to them which spring of His jealousy; 72. God's bounties in laying hardships upon them to bear; 73. God's grace to them at death and after; 74. Of other graces accorded them; 75. Of audition; Index.

1977

General, Islam / Sufi

76-058075

297/.2

Scholarly & Professional

19

Yes

Literary Criticism, Religion