The Virtues of the Prophet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtues of the Prophet write by Charles Upton. This book was released on 2006. The Virtues of the Prophet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A study of the key characteristics and qualities of the Prophet Muhammad, considered by a contemporary Western convert to Islam"--Provided by publisher.
Virtues of the Prophet;a Young Muslims Guide to the Greater Jihad, the War Against the Passions
Virtues of the Prophet;a Young Muslims Guide to the Greater Jihad, the War Against the Passions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtues of the Prophet;a Young Muslims Guide to the Greater Jihad, the War Against the Passions write by Charles Upton. This book was released on . Virtues of the Prophet;a Young Muslims Guide to the Greater Jihad, the War Against the Passions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kitab Al-qabasat
Kitab Al-qabasat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kitab Al-qabasat write by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād. This book was released on 2009. Kitab Al-qabasat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad 'Alawi's Sharoh Kitaab al-Qabasaat."
Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion
Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion write by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst. This book was released on 2017-08-14. Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders. For India's Muslims their interpretation of the Rebellion as jihad shaped subsequent discourses, definitions and codifications of Islam in the region. Morgenstein Fuerst concludes by demonstrating how these perceptions of jihad, contextualised within the framework of the 19th century Rebellion, continue to influence contemporary rhetoric about Islam and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent.Drawing on extensive primary source analysis, this unique take on Islamic identities in South Asia will be invaluable to scholars working on British colonial history, India and the Raj, as well as to those studying Islam in the region and beyond.
Reflections of Tasawwuf
Reflections of Tasawwuf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections of Tasawwuf write by Charles Upton. This book was released on 2008. Reflections of Tasawwuf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sufism is the practice of remaining aware of the real presence of God in every circumstance, until Certainty is reached. The dizzying complexity of Sufi metaphysics, the passionate beauty of Sufi poetry, and the profound Sufi science of spiritual psychology, are all based on this. The Sufi Path is the process of spiritual transformation, ultimately resulting (God willing) in self-transcendence, produced by the Certainty of God's presence. In traditional Muslim society, many different moral, intellectual and spiritual functions were performed by those 'estates' responsible for maintaining them. Parents, imams and 'grammar school' teachers transmitted the fundamental ritual and moral principles of Islamic society. The madrasas took care of such traditional sciences as Qur'anic exegesis and the study of prophetic ahadith. The schools of fiqh maintained and applied the shari'ah. The mutakallimiin developed and taught kalam, Islamic 'scholastic theology'. The falasifa or philosophers carried on an intellectual tradition largely inherited from the Greeks. The ishraqiyyun developed a mystical theosophy based on direct spiritual insight. Physicians employed systems of healing derived in part from metaphysics. Poets often transmitted sophisticated spiritual lore; many other traditional craftsmen did the same. The mathematicians, astronomers and other scientists sought to uncover the Signs of God in numbers, in geometrical shapes, and in the heavens. And the alchemists worked on the reconstitution of the original human form (al-fitra) in psycho-physical terms. So when a seeker applied for admittance to a Sufi tariqa, he likely knew his Goal. The lower rungs of the ladder of moral, intellectual and spiritual aspiration were clearly defined and largely taken care of; consequently the aspirant to Sufi initiation could be more certain than he was seeking God Alone. In modern 'semi-Muslim' societies, however, things are not so clear. And as for those Sufi tariqas that have emigrated to the West, and the individuals who seek admittance to them, the situation is even more ambiguous. The traditional supports for a collective worldview that places God first and sees His hand in everything are no longer readily available, and no one whose worldview is basically secular can follow the Sufi path as the great Sufis of the past once did. In the secular West especially, Sufi tariqas lack the exoteric religious culture in relation to which they could be truly esoteric; without the Zahir, one might say, there can be no Batin. Therefore This book is not so much a text on Sufism itself as an attempt - woefully inadequate-to indicate certain elements of the original context that allowed Sufism to be what it is.
