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

Author/creator Ilāhī, Nūr ʻAli
Other author Morris, James Winston, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 158 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Soul--Islam.

Uniform titleMaʻrifat al-rūḥ. English
Contents Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Translator's introduction -- 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 -- Historical contexts : the audience, language and structure of Ma'rifat ar-Rūh -- The "three sources" : rational argument, religious tradition, and spiritual experience -- Allusion and realization -- The basic structure of Knowing the Spirit : the origin and the return -- The contemporary significance of Knowing the spirit -- The Persian text and translation conventions -- Translation of Knowing the Spirit -- Original table of contents -- Introduction -- Establishing the existence of the Divine Artisan -- The Spirit -- The gathering, reawakening, and returning (of the Spirit) in the realm of return -- The purely bodily return -- The purely spiritual return -- The harmonization of a bodily and spiritual return -- The (Spirit's) return by way of the process of perfection -- The belief of the proponents of transmigration -- Conclusion.
General noteTranslated from the Persian.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.
LCCN 2005036232
ISBN0791468577 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780791468579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0791468585 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780791468586 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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