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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Bab’Aziz:The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

I have just added this DVD to the bookstore. It is a beautiful film in the tradition of Sufi storytelling. With its haunting music and atmospheric cinematography it opens the heart as you walk the path with a young girl and her grandfather to a gathering of dervishes. Just click here or on the image
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Alone with the Alone by Henry corbin

“Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) was one of the great mystics of all time. Through the richness of his personal experience and the constructive power of his intellect, he made a unique contribution to Shi’ite Sufism. In this book, which features a powerful new preface by Harold Bloom, Henry Corbin brings us
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Teachings of Sufism

Whether you are just becoming interested in the Sufi path or you are already on the way this book by Carl W. Ernst offers a treasure of Sufi writings from the past 10 centuries. “The prose and verse readings in this book were chosen to interest the many people who have become attracted to Sufi [...]
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

The Sovereign Soul

Author and Sufi teacher, Phillip Gowins, writes here of the important role that Sufi master Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan played in bringing the Sufi path to the West. He also describes his own progress and adventures along this path. “The aim of the 1,500-year-old spiritual tradition of Sufism, it has be
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Ibn ‘Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path

“Writing from the small Moroccan town of Sale to friends in the capital city of fez, Ibn Abbad composed numerous letters of spiritual direction that spoke to the concrete problems of his devotees. A selection of these letters, written between 1365-1375, is included here.” Posted in Al-Andalus, Islam
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience

You might ask why I am including a book on Sephardic Jews in a bookstore that focuses on Sufi literature. While this book covers the complete history of Sephardic Jews on the Iberian Peninsula continuing on after their expulsion by the Catholic Monarchs and persecution by the inquisition, up to the
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

The Art of the Islamic Garden

If you have ever been in an Islamic garden such as the beautiful ones at the Alhambra, Granada and throughout the Middle East and North Africa then you will have been struck by the harmony and balance of the layout, by the play of light and shade, and by the water, still and reflective in [...]
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Sufi Books · 2Y ago

Sufism: Love and Wisdom

A collection of essays on the Sufi tradition by some of the best known contemporary writers on the subject. “For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi practitioners and thinkers. Those initiated into its mysteries have sometimes expressed them in ecstatic po
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