Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology

By: John Renard

Book Overview

This volume, the ninth on Islamic material to be published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series, brings to light a highly significant but little known area of Islamic spirituality. Editor John Renard has assembled here a volume of texts, most translated here for the first time, culled from the great Sufi manuals of spirituality, on the theme of the complex and multi-faceted role of knowledge in relation to the spiritual life. He presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809140306
• ISBN13: 9780809140305
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.5"