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The lamp of love: journeying with the Sabri Brothers/ Amatullah Armstrong Chishti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chishti, Amatullah Armstrong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chishti, Amatullah Armstrong.
- Muslim converts--Australia--Biography.
- Muslim converts.
- Sufism--Pakistan.
- Sufism.
- Qawwālī.
- Pakistan.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 147 pages 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- The Lamp of Love: Journeying with the Sabri Brothers recounts the journey of an Australian Sufi woman whose devotion to the powerful and ecstatic music of Pakistan's legendary qawwals (Sufi singers), the Sabri Brothers, drew her from the tranquility of the Australian countryside to settle in the midst of overpopulated Karachi, so that she could immerse herself more deeply in the Sufi tradition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-147).
- ISBN:
- 0195471652
- 9780195471656
- OCLC:
- 70122172
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