The Lover

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Publisher : Laury Silvers
ISBN 13 : 1999122844
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Lover written by Laury Silvers and published by Laury Silvers. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Book in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad 295 hijri/907 CE Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and begs her to bring some justice to the death of a local boy, she is forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything. The Lover is a historically sensitive mystery that introduces us to the world of medieval Baghdad and the lives of the great Sufi mystics, washerwomen, Hadith scholars, tavern owners, the enslaved, corpsewashers, police, and children indentured to serve in the homes of the wealthy. It asks what it means to have family when you have nearly no one left, what it takes to love and be loved by those who have stuck by you, and how one can come to love God and everything He’s done to you. "Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric. Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters." —Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of A Deadly Divide from The Getty-Khattak Mysteries, and The Khorasan Archives

The Unseen

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Publisher : Laury Silvers
ISBN 13 : 1777531330
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen written by Laury Silvers and published by Laury Silvers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Islam and early Sufism. She is a North American Muslim living in Toronto. Book Three in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It’s easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad, 295 Hijri (908 CE) When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as anything other than an attack on the Shia community of Baghdad. The city is on edge as religious and political factions are exposed sending the caliph’s army into the streets. Ammar and Tein have to clear the case, one way or another, before violence erupts. But Zaytuna has had a visionary dream of the murder that holds the key to solving the case. Can she can read its signs? And will Tein and Ammar listen? "Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric. Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters." —Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of A Deadly Divide from The Getty-Khattak Mysteries, and The Khorasan Archives “In this exceptionally well-written and lucid book, Laury Silvers brings the intricacies of medieval Islamic religiosities and society to life. In exploring the little-known religious communities of medieval Baghdad, Silvers invites the reader to journey through the often forgotten multifaceted dimensions of pre-modern society, addressing questions such as dissent, sectarianism, and communal relations.” — Ahab Bdaiwi, Leiden and Cambridge Universities

The Sufi Mystery

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Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sufi Mystery written by Nathaniel P. Archer and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery of the Sufis, in the ancient usage of the word, is the experience of self-realization taught by traditional schools of "mysticism." In English, too, the word "mystery" also stands for an art or craft, a skill; and this sense is also preserved in the Sufic usage of the word "Work," or science of the Sufi: "Knowledge without action is like wax without honey." The Sufi Mystery brings together writings by Ameer Ali, the Islamic historian; Professor E. G. Browne, the Orientalist; Sir Richard Burton; Robert Graves; Idries Shah; and many others. It deals with authentic and mutated schools and orders and their literature over a very wide area of geography and belief. Sufi theories and practices are examined, visits to Sufi centers are described, the relationships of master and disciple investigated, and links with other systems noted.

The Jealous

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Publisher : Laury Silvers
ISBN 13 : 1999122860
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Jealous written by Laury Silvers and published by Laury Silvers. This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two in the Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad 295 hijri/907 CE A woman’s howl of pain echoed through the courtyard. “She’s killed him!” Her husband’s face was twisted with terror, staring at something that was not there, looking at the space just over his chest, grasping at his left arm as if to wrest some unseen force away. Saliha gasped, “A jinn! God protect us from evil things!” When a distinguished scholar dies at the Barmakid hospital in Baghdad, nearly everyone points the finger at his enslaved servant Mu’mina, as the one who called a demon to kill him. Tein, a former frontier fighter turned investigator with the Grave Crimes Section, has no time for religion, let alone jinn, and sets out to prove her innocent. But Ammar, Tein’s superior and old wartime friend, has already pushed her case before the Police Chief’s court where she’s sure to be executed or condemned to rot in the prisons built into the damp walls of Baghdad’s Round City. With the help of his twin sister, Zaytuna, his childhood friend, Mustafa, and Zaytuna’s friend, the untamable Saliha, Tein plunges into a dangerous investigation that takes them into the world of talisman-makers and seers, houses of prostitution and gambling, and the fractious secular and religious court systems, all in an effort to turn back the tragic circumstances set in motion by Ammar’s destructive fear of a girl horribly wronged. "Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric. Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters." —Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of A Deadly Divide from The Getty-Khattak Mysteries, and The Khorasan Archives "Silvers masterfully uses literature to fuse suspense and mysticism and capture readers in an intricately-woven historical mystery that taps into timeless human experiences." --Layla Abdullah-Poulos, Managing Editor, NbA Muslims

A Deadly Divide

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250298288
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Deadly Divide written by Ausma Zehanat Khan and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, A Deadly Divide is the devastatingly powerful new thriller featuring beloved series detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty. In the aftermath of a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, the local police apprehend Amadou Duchon—a young Muslim man at the scene helping the wounded—but release Etienne Roy, the local priest who was found with a weapon in his hands. The shooting looks like a hate crime, but detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty sense there is more to the story. Sent to liaise with a community in the grip of fear, they find themselves in fraught new territory, fueled by the panic and suspicion exploited by a right-wing radio host. As Rachel and Esa grapple to stop tensions shutting the case down entirely, all the time, someone is pointing Esa in another direction, a shadowy presence who anticipates his every move. A Deadly Divide is a piercingly observed, gripping thriller that reveals the fractures that try to tear us all apart: from the once-tight partnership between detectives Esa and Rachel, to the truth about a deeply divided nation.

The Unseen

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ISBN 13 : 9781777531348
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis The Unseen by : Laury Silvers

Download or read book The Unseen written by Laury Silvers and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad, 295 Hijri (908 CE) When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as anything other than an attack on the Shia community of Baghdad. The city is on edge as religious and political factions are exposed sending the caliph's army into the streets. Ammar and Tein have to clear the case, one way or another, before violence erupts. But Zaytuna has had a visionary dream of the murder that holds the key to solving the case. Can she read its signs? And will Tein and Ammar listen?

The Peace: A Sufi Mystery

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Publisher : Laury Silvers
ISBN 13 : 1738101312
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Peace: A Sufi Mystery written by Laury Silvers and published by Laury Silvers. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fitting end for Zaytuna.” Karen Heenan, author of The Tudor Court Series _________________ Baghdad, 297 Hijri (909 CE) When an unscrupulous young scholar who claims to possess a controversial Quran manuscript goes missing, most of his colleagues are only too happy to see him gone. Is he merely drunk in one of Baghdad’s gambling houses? Is he hiding while he considers what to do with the manuscript? Or is his life in danger for the claim of having the manuscript at all? A friend of the missing man asks Mustafa for help, pulling Tein, Ammar, and Zaytuna into a case that forces them to make choices threatening their hard won peace. _________________ “A fitting end for Zaytuna, who would never take the short road to happiness, and an engrossing mystery that reveals an unknown history of the Quran.” — Karen Heenan, author of The Tudor Court Series “With The Peace, the final book in her Sufi Mystery series, Laury Silvers delivers the complete package. An intriguing mystery, enchanting characters, and a historical setting all combine to create a wonderful read. — Richard Marcus, Blogcritics “Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric.Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters.” — Ausma Zehanat Khan, author of Blackwater Falls, The Getty-Khattak Mysteries and The Khorasan Archives “Silvers brings to life complex and consequential debates within specialized scholarly circles of Quran reciters of tenth century Baghdad.” — Marijn van Putten, Leiden University

The Jealous

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ISBN 13 : 9781777531324
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Jealous written by Laury Silvers and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two of The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad 295 hijri/907 CE When a distinguished scholar dies in Baghdad, nearly everyone points the finger at his slave Mu'mina, as the one who called a demon to kill him. Tein, a former frontier fighter turned investigator with the Grave Crimes Section, has no time for religion, let alone jinn, and sets out to prove her innocent. But Ammar, Tein's superior and old wartime friend, has already pushed her case before the Police Chief's court where she's sure to be executed or condemned to rot in the prisons built into the damp walls of Baghdad's Round City. With the help of his twin sister, Zaytuna, his childhood friend, Mustafa, and Zaytuna's friend, the untamable Saliha, Tein plunges into a dangerous investigation that takes them into the world of talisman-makers and seers, houses of prostitution and gambling, and the fractious secular and religious court systems, all in an effort to turn back the tragic circumstances set in motion by Ammar's destructive fear of a girl horribly wronged.

Garden of Mystery

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Publisher : Classics of Sufi Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781901383225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Garden of Mystery by : Mahmud Shabistari

Download or read book Garden of Mystery written by Mahmud Shabistari and published by Classics of Sufi Poetry. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Garden of Mystery' (Gulshan-i Raz) holds a unique position in Persian Sufi literature. It is a compact and concise exploration of the doctrines of Sufism at the peak of their development that has remained a primary text of Sufism throughout the world from Turkey to India. It comprises a thousand lines of inspired poetry taking the form of answers to questions put by a fellow mystic. It provides a coherent literary bridge between the Persian 'school of love' poetry and the rapidly growing number of metaphysical and gnostic compositions from what had come to be known as the school of the 'Unity of Being'. Translated by Robert Darr who has for thirty-five years been a student of classical Islamic culture.

A Soaring Minaret

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438431724
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book A Soaring Minaret written by Laury Silvers and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of early Islamic mysticism and metaphysics is presented through the life and work of theologian Abu Bakr al-Wasiti.

Tales of a Modern Sufi

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779295
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales of a Modern Sufi by : Nevit O. Ergin

Download or read book Tales of a Modern Sufi written by Nevit O. Ergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of modern Sufi tales by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi initiate Nevit Ergin • Contains 24 deceptively simple stories that invoke questioning and awareness • By the renowned English translator of Rumi’s complete Divan-i Kebir Sufi stories have traditionally been a means of opening a portal that allows us to advance from our basic perceptions into states of extraordinary awareness. This collection of deceptively simple stories by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi Nevit Ergin has the ability to remove readers’ complacent sense of self and identity and to expand their ordinary awareness of reality from every possible direction. In his stories the primrose path we travel suddenly turns into a trickster’s hall of mirrors where we learn that we are not children of Adam and Eve so much as children of our perceptions. The protagonists and antagonists of these stories are constantly morphing and exchanging places. They exist in a world where individuals are stalked by a cricket that is an “invisible monster with the face of a demon,” confront the ambiguous burden of ridding oneself of one’s own corpse, and discover the “invisible fence of reality” existing in the layers of a discarded piece of art. The symbols in these stories are booby traps designed to release the mind from the sense of its own importance and awaken the realization that “if you refuse to be born, you cannot die.” Blind faith, the author says, has proved itself incapable of producing wisdom, tolerance, or world peace. This is because the answers to humanity’s problems lie beyond our ordinary perception and require love and ecstasy to be made visible. Our thirst for wisdom and understanding must go to the fountain of universal truth. These stories provide water from that fountain.

Sufis

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Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1784790052
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Sufis written by Idries Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sufis is the best introduction ever written to the philosophical and mystical school traditionally associated with the Islamic world.Powerful, concise, and intensely thought-provoking, it sums up over a thousand years of Eastern thought - the product of some of the greatest minds humanity has ever produced - into a single work, presenting timeless ideas in a fresh and contemporary style.When the book was originally published in 1964, it launched its author, Idries Shah, on to the international stage, attracting the attention of thinkers and writers such as J. D. Salinger, Doris Lessing, Ted Hughes and Robert Graves.It introduced to the Western world concepts which have subsequently become commonly accepted, varying from the psychological importance of attention and humour, to the use of traditional tales as teaching instruments (what Shah termed 'teaching-stories'), and the historical debt owed by the West to the Middle East in matters scientific, literary and philosophical.As a primer for the many dozens of Sufi books that Shah later produced, it is unsurpassed, offering a clear window onto a community whose system of thought and action has long concerned itself with the advancement of the whole of humankind, and whose ideas about individuals and society, their purpose and direction, need to be understood now more than ever before.

The Sufi Book of Life

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684243
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sufi Book of Life by : Neil Douglas-Klotz

Download or read book The Sufi Book of Life written by Neil Douglas-Klotz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part meditation book, part oracle, and part collection of Sufi lore, poetry, and stories, The Sufi Book of Life offers a fresh interpretation of the fundamental spiritual practice found in all ancient and modern Sufi schools—the meditations on the 99 Qualities of Unity. Unlike most books on Sufism, which are primarily collections of translated Sufi texts, this accessible guide is a handbook that explains how to apply Sufi principles to modern life. With inspirational commentary that connects each quality with contemporary concerns such as love, work, and success, as well as timeless wisdom from Sufi masters, both ancient and modern, such as Rumi, Hafiz, Shabistari, Rabia, Inayat Khan, Indries Shah, Irina Tweedie, Bawa Muhaiyadden, and more, The Sufi Book of Life is a dervish guide to life and love for the twenty-first century. On the web: http://sufibookoflife.com

The Little Book of Sufi Stories

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Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612834159
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Sufi Stories written by Neil Douglas-Klotz and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Entertaining. . . . practical, ghostly, and often very funny tales . . . including those by saints like Rumi as well as lay storytellers from Turkey and Persia.” —Publishers Weekly The stories in this book are drawn from the dozens of Sufi tales that Douglas-Klotz has enjoyed telling in his seminars over the past 20 years. Most of them appear in works of the classical Sufis, such as Rumi, Attar, or S’adi. To preserve some of the in-person feeling and bring the language up to date, he has given them his own improvised turns. “If you want to hear a good story but prefer to read it instead, then read Douglas-Klotz! He writes as if he’s sitting in your living room, invited over for afternoon tea to entertain you with some heart-pleasing, often humorous, yet soul-searching Sufi stories. His modernization of these old texts is gentle and mindful, yet unapologetic.” —Maryam Mafi, from the foreword

The Sufi Mystery

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ISBN 13 : 9788129110527
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Sufi Mystery written by Idries Shah and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lover

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ISBN 13 : 9781777531317
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Lover written by Laury Silvers and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It's easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad, 295 Hijri (907 CE) Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and begs her to bring some justice to the death of a local boy, she is forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything. The Lover introduces us to the emotional, spiritual, and social world of medieval Baghdad through the lives of the great Sufi mystics, washerwomen, Hadith scholars, tavern owners, slaves, corpsewashers, police, and children indentured to serve in the homes of the wealthy.

The Lover

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ISBN 13 : 9781999122836
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Lover written by Laury Silvers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: