Knowing the spirit / Ostad Elahi ; translated and with an introduction by James Winston Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilāhī, Nūr ʻAlī, 1895-1974.

Contributor:

Morris, James Winston, 1949-

Standardized Title:

Maʻrifat al-rūḥ. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--Islam.

Soul.

Islam--Doctrines.

Islam.

Physical Description:

viii, 158 p.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A modern spiritual classic on the perfection of the soul by a renowned writer from the Islamic tradition.

Contents:

Intro

Knowing the Spirit

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Translator's Introduction

I. Ostad Elahi's Life and Works

Childhood and Youth

Professional Life and Judicial Career

The Final Period: Writing and Teaching

Ostad Elahi's Published Works: The Place of Knowing the Spirit

II. Historical Contexts: The Audience, Language, andStructure of Ma'rifat ar-R¶h

The "Three Sources": Rational Argument, Religious Tradition,and Spiritual Experience

Allusion and Realization

The Basic Structure of Knowing the Spirit: The Originationand the Return

III. The Contemporary Significance of Knowing the Spirit

The Persian Text andTranslation Conventions

Original Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Establishing the Existenceof the Divine Artisan

2. The Spirit

3. The Gathering, Reawakening,and Returning (of the Spirit)in the Realm of Return

4. The Purely Bodily Return

5. The Purely Spiritual Return

6. The Harmonization of a Bodily and Spiritual Return

7. The (Spirit's) Return by Way of the Process of Perfection

8. The Belief of the Proponents of Transmigration

Conclusion

Notes

Notes to the Translator'sIntroduction

Notes to the Translation

Bibliography

References Originally Cited by Ostad Elahi

Works Cited in the Translator's Introduction and Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Translated from the Persian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481202

0791481204

9781429471268

1429471263

OCLC:

137541951