Una fábula espiritual que llega al corazón, bellamente ilustrada.A través de veintiséis preciosas lecciones de vida, Almustafá ofrece una visión rebosante de luz y de trascendencia sobre temas tan importantes y atemporales como el amor, la pasion, el trabajo, la belleza, la libertad, el dolor, la razon o la muerte.Un testimonio indispensable para todos aquellos que buscan sabiduria, paz, esperanza y un sentido al mundo de hoy.

Islã: Entre arabescos, luas e tâmaras apresenta uma etnografia inédita sobre a vivência muçulmana no Brasil, especialmente em São Paulo e São Bernardo do Campo. A antropóloga Francirosy Campos Barbos

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is more than a life storyit is the journey of a man who rose from hardship, crime, and despair to become one of the most powerful voices of the 20th century. Told with unflinching honesty and intensity, the book chronicles Malcolms transformation from a troubled youth into a global symbol of resistance, faith, and empowerment. From his struggles with racism in America to his years in prison, his spiritual rebirth through Islam, his battles with the Nation of Islam, and his awakening during a life-changing pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolms story is one of evolution, courage, and profound conviction. Co-written with Alex Haley, this autobiography is not just a record of one mans life, but a timeless manifesto on freedom, justice, and human dignity that continues to inspire readers around the world.

La obra "Kitab al-Hikam" o "El Libro de la Sabiduría" de Ibn Ataillah, es una colección de aforismos y reflexiones espirituales que abordan los principios fundamentales del sufismo. Este texto es considerado una joya de la literatura sufi por su profundidad, claridad y belleza poetica. Esta compuesto por aforismos breves, acompañados en ocasiones por comentarios mas extensos, que ofrecen una guia practica y espiritual para acercarse a Dios.Las tematicas principales incluyen: La dependencia de Dios, la purificacion del alma, el conocimiento de Dios, el amor divino y la gratitud.Un aspecto notable de esta obra es su capacidad para combinar enseñanzas misticas profundas con un lenguaje accesible. Los aforismos estan diseñados para inspirar una reflexion interior y motivar a los buscadores a profundizar en su relacion con Dios. A traves de su obra, Ibn Ataillah enfatizo que la busqueda de Dios no debe estar basada en el esfuerzo humano, sino en la rendicion total a Su gracia y voluntad. El "Kitab al-Hikam" o "Libro de la Sabiduria", sigue siendo estudiado en circulos sufies y es una fuente de inspiracion para musulmanes y buscadores espirituales de todo el mundo.

Discover the transformative art of Dhikr, the time-honored practice of mindful remembrance in Islam. Within these pages, youll embark on a journey of spiritual awakening, learning how simple yet profound recitations can deepen your awareness, foster gratitude, and open the door to inner tranquility. Accessible, practical, and inspiring, it demystifies ancient teachings for modern seekers. In this comprehensive guide, youll explore diverse forms of Dhikr: loud and silent, moving and still. Step-by-step instructions demystify each method, whether you prefer rhythmic chanting with prayer beads or quiet contemplation in solitude. Detailed exercises help you master pronunciation, breathing techniques, and mental focus. Clear illustrations and guided sessions support beginners and seasoned practitioners in weaving Dhikr seamlessly into everyday life. Trace Dhikrs origins through Quranic verses and prophetic teachings that have inspired generations. Discover how Sufi masters refined the art through communal gatherings, devotional poetry, and rhythmic movements that foster collective transcendence. Insightful historical context brings clarity to modern adaptations, illuminating how scholars and spiritual guides have preserved and expanded the practice over centuries. Learn how ancient wisdom resonates today in both traditional ceremonies and contemporary meditation approaches. Integrate Dhikr effortlessly into morning and evening rituals, before meals, and even as a mindful prelude to sleep. Each chapter offers tailored routines, from brief sessions amid a hectic schedule to extended meditations on weekends. Discover practical tips for using prayer beads, tracking progress, and overcoming common obstacles. With customizable practice plans, you can cultivate consistent habits that nurture spiritual growth, grounding each moment in remembrance and purpose. Experience powerful mind-body benefits as Dhikr calms anxiety, enhances focus, and fosters emotional balance. Scientific research increasingly validates the positive effects of meditative repetition on stress reduction and resilience. Beyond psychological well-being, Dhikr strengthens gratitude and tawakkul (trust in the Divine), inviting deep renewal of heart and soul. By harmonizing breath, recitation, and reflection, practitioners can tap into profound inner peace and resilience that extends far beyond the meditative session. Whether youre new to Islamic meditation or seeking to deepen a long-held practice, this guide provides the tools and wisdom you need. Accessible explanations and guided learning paths make it ideal for solo reflection, study groups, and interfaith mindfulness circles alike. Embrace Dhikr as a transformative habit that transcends cultural boundaries, empowering individuals of all backgrounds to discover serenity, gratitude, and unwavering spiritual connection in every breath. Unlock the timeless power of mindful remembrance and embark on a journey toward lasting inner harmony. With step-by-step guidance, insightful context, and practical exercises, this book illuminates the path to a richer, more centered life. Transform your daily moments into sacred rituals and experience the profound serenity that occurs when mind, heart, and spirit unite in Dhikrs embrace. Begin this sacred practice and let each breath become an invitation to the Divine presence. Step onto a path where every remembrance plants a seed of spiritual growth.

In this comprehensive study, Aaron Spevack delves into the 15th-century logic text by Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1431), a foundational work in the Ottoman seminary tradition. Rather than offering a standard annotated translation alone, Spevack also provides an in-depth analysis of each chapter, enriched with references to multiple super-commentaries and practical examples. Drawing from years of study under scholars trained in the Ottoman tradition along with personal research, he highlights the texts significance in the Islamic logic tradition and its philosophical depth. More than just a guide to logical reasoning, al-Fanaris work embeds a number of philosophical and metaphysical inquiries that set the Islamic intellectual tradition apart from its modern counterparts. This work offers both a practical and philosophical framework, showing why a deep understanding of classical logic is vital for contemporary discourse.

Insights into Islamic Archaeology and Material Culture explores the evolution of this dynamic field, highlighting new methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and shifting paradigms. Stemming from a 2013 seminar in Jerusalem, the volume critically examines whether the means and goals of Islamic archaeology have changed significantly from those that defined the disciplines major advances in the twentieth century. The books fourteen contributors reassess long-held perspectives, emphasizing the need to move beyond orientalist interpretations and historiographic dependencies and instead foster a more neutral and analytical approach to early Islamic material culture. The collection showcases research on key sites such as Qusayr Amra, Khirbat al-Mafjar, and al-Sinnabra and offers fresh views on settlement patterns, agricultural economies, and the sociopolitical functions of Umayyad palaces, among other topics. The volume also highlights the interplay among archaeology, conservation, and cultural heritage studies, illustrating how technical advances-such as the conservation of Qusayr Amras frescoes-have reshaped scholars understanding of early Islamic visual culture. Its essays challenge established narratives of cultural decline following the rise of Islam, demonstrating instead a dynamic period of adaptation, innovation, and exchange still reflected in later eras, as evidenced by Islamic interactions with the Frankish world. Through its diverse perspectives, Insights into Islamic Archaeology and Material Culture serves as both a critical reassessment of the fields past and a blueprint for its future, fundamentally advocating for an inclusive, methodologically rigorous approach that integrates archaeology with the broader humanities and social sciences.

In Arabic-Islamic culture, generosity is held in the very highest regard and descriptions of charity, hospitality and largesse are consequently an important component of Arabic literature. The Egyptian judge and man of letters, Ibn Ab al-d al-Sakhw al-Mlik, who lived in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century and who practiced charity his whole life, compiled a work titled the ilyat al-kuram, literally "The Ornament of the Magnanimous." A significant example of a flourishing genre devoted to generosity and a testament to the intense cultural and literary activity of the authors time, the ilyat al-kuram includes aphorisms, poems, and anecdotes about benevolent individuals whose generosity is exemplified by the gifts and money they lavished on others and by the many ways they provided aid to the needy. The lively examples of the liberality exhibited by everyone, from rulers to ordinary people, are intended to urge others to similar acts of generosity, charity, and assistance. On Generosity comprises an introductory study on the work and its author, the first reliable and critical edition of the Arabic text, an annotated English translation, and glossaries designed to make the text more accessible to nonspecialists.

The tradition of rational theology in the mature post-classical Sunni tradition has unique philosophical insights and solutions to modern philosophical problems that have not yet been articulated in the philosophical mainstream. Discerning Religious Truth does that for the first time. In doing so, it connects the tradition of Sunni Muslim intellectual thought to modern questions of philosophy and logic for the first time through the content of al-Khabs (d. 1050/1640) commentary on Tahdhb al-maniq, along with its glosses. This text acts as a bridge for traditionally trained scholars of those sciences to engage modern philosophical questions and for researchers in modern philosophy to engage with traditional Islamic sources.

Estudio filosófico que aborda las tres tradiciones de pensamiento de la India: védica, samkhya y budista. Además muestra cómo, desde la antigüedad, el cosmos fue concebido como un organismo sujeto a

Um clássico da sabedoria sufi em tradução rigorosa e edição comentada Como o Uno se manifesta no múltiplo? De que forma uma realidade absoluta e indivisível dá origem à infinita diversidade do cosmo

The History of the Armenian priest ewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of ewonds text, which describes events that took place during the century and a half following the Prophet Muammads death in AH 11/632 CE. The authors address ewonds account as a work of caliphal history, written in Armenian, from within the Caliphate. As such, this book provides a critical reading of the Caliphate from one of its most significant provinces. Reading notes clarify many aspects of the period covered to make the text understandable to students and specialists alike. Extensive commentary elucidates ewonds narrative objectives and situates his History in a broader Near Eastern historiographical context by bringing the text into new conversations with a constellation of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac works that cover the same period. The book thus stresses the multiplicity of voices operating in the Caliphate in this pivotal period of Near Eastern history.

El islam es una religión que, a día de hoy, cuenta con 1 900 millones de miembros en el mundo. En su libro El islam no es lo que crees, Abdelmuní Aya establece una clara, importante y necesaria diferencia entre el islam agresivo que llevan a cabo algunas organizaciones de esta religion y el islam del que trata el Coran. Juan Antonio Monroy, nacido y crecido en un pais islamico, aborda las creencias fundamentales de esta religion estrictamente desde una perspectiva coranica, donde se reconoce a grandes figuras del Antiguo Testamento. El radicalismo islamico, tal como se practica en algunos paises musulmanes, no tiene apoyo alguno analizado a la luz del Coran.

El Islam es objeto de interminables controversias y mucha confusión. Pero, ¿qué es el Islam? ¿Una forma de relacionarse con Dios? ¿Una religión con sus propios dogmas y normas? ¿Una civilización? En el centro de esta realidad plural se encuentra la cuestion de los fines: ¿que quiere conseguir el Islam y por que medios, violentos o pacificos, pretende hacerlo?Remi Brague vuelve sobre estas cuestiones fundamentales para explorar la vision islamica de Dios y del mundo. Examina su uso de la razon, su relacion con la ley, la subordinacion total que exige, la actitud hacia los demas, la legitimacion y el uso efectivo de la fuerza. Este libro ofrece una nueva vision de la civilizacion islamica y de su aportacion a la cultura europea. Pero tambien refuta, examinando hechos y textos, las construcciones legendarias que la ven como la fuente viva de todos los avances, Renacimiento e Ilustracion, de los que Occidente se enorgullece.El Islam, escribe el autor, no es una religion en el sentido en que la entendemos. Es ante todo una ley que considera la creencia como un hecho innato que no puede negarse sin mala fe. Un mundo en el que no hay lugar para el no creyente. En este sentido, es radicalmente diferente de las religiones biblicas.

El presente texto pretende recoger aspectos diversos del islam, siendo estos fundamentales para conocer la cultura en su conjunto. Aquí hablamos de los factores antropológicos, religiosos, culturales, historicos y politicos. El islam es, ademas de una religion, un conjunto normativo de como deben comportarse los creyentes en todos los aspectos de su periplo vital. El islam esta entre nosotros y sus adeptos continuan creciendo en todos los continentes de una forma constante y sostenida, por lo que lejos de los prejuicios que se tienen contra esta religion, nos encontramos con un fenomeno que se quedara y jugara un importante papel en este mundo en el que la globalizacion esta saltando por los aires, siendo esta una razon de peso para intentar entenderlo ampliamente.

El lector tiene ante sí la primera biografía de Rûmî escrita en lengua castellana. Hay autores que únicamente adquieren celebridad gracias a sus obras escritas; fuera de ellas, no existen. No es este

El Corán, considerado la palabra revelada de Dios en el islam, es una obra de incomparable importancia literaria y espiritual. A través de una serie de suras que abordan temas como la moralidad, la justicia, la adoracion y la vida cotidiana, el Coran se presenta en un estilo poetico y simbolico, invitando a la reflexion profunda. Su contexto literario es esencial para comprender la riqueza del lenguaje arabe a principios del siglo VII, siendo este texto no solo un fundamento religioso, sino tambien un hito en la literatura arabe clasica que ha influido en innumerables obras posteriores. Mahoma, el profeta del islam, es el autor de este monumental texto, que fue revelado a lo largo de un periodo de aproximadamente 23 años. Su vida estuvo marcada por la busqueda de la verdad y la justicia, en un contexto de profundas desigualdades sociales en la Arabia de su tiempo. Las enseñanzas que plasmo en el Coran emergen de su experiencia personal, sus interacciones comunitarias y su deseo de guiar a su pueblo hacia una vida mas justa y plena bajo la voluntad divina. Recomiendo fervientemente la lectura del Coran no solo por su contenido religioso, sino por su profundo impacto en la historia, la cultura y la sociedad musulmana. Esta obra es esencial para quienes buscan comprender el pensamiento islamico, la estructura del lenguaje arabe y las raices de una de las religiones mas influyentes del mundo. Su estudio ofrece una perspectiva unica sobre temas universales que siguen resonando a traves de los siglos.

The Quran, revered as the holy book of Islam, is a profound compilation of divine revelations received by the Prophet Muhammad over a span of twenty-three years. Written in classical Arabic, its literary style is characterized by its rhythmic prose and intricate eloquence, utilizing a rich tapestry of metaphor, narrative, and legal prescriptions. The Qurans verses, known as ayat, reveal complex theological concepts, moral guidance, and social laws, situating itself within the larger context of 7th-century Arabian society and its emerging monotheistic paradigm. Allah, as the author of this sacred text, is understood in Islamic belief to transcend human authorship, infusing the Quran with an omnipotent authority that shapes Muslim faith and practice. The revelations were received during a period of religious upheaval, social stratification, and tribal conflict, offering solutions and a new ethical framework to unite disparate tribes under a shared belief system. The Qurans layered meanings are explored through centuries of scholarship, engaging with diverse interpretations that reflect evolving contexts. This essential text is highly recommended for both scholars and lay readers, as it is not only the ultimate spiritual guide for Muslims but also a cornerstone of world literature, reflecting universal themes of justice, compassion, and the quest for understanding. Whether approached for religious insight or literary appreciation, The Quran invites readers into a profound exploration of faith and humanity.

In "The Mystics of Islam," Reynold A. Nicholson explores the profound spiritual dimensions of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting a thorough examination of its historical development, essential figures, and philosophical underpinnings. Nicholsons scholarly work is characterized by a poetic yet precise literary style, interweaving rich historical context with textual analysis of the key works and doctrines of prominent Sufi thinkers. Through a systematic dissection of the mystical practices and doctrines, the book elucidates the quest for divine truth that transcends mere ritualistic practice, encouraging readers to grasp the deeper, often ineffable experience of the divine in everyday life. Nicholson, a renowned Orientalist and scholar of Persian and Arabic literature, was significantly influenced by his academic pursuits as well as his engagement with mysticism. His extensive travels in the Middle East and his deep scholarly training provided the framework for his understanding of Islamic spirituality, allowing him to engage intimately with the texts and traditions that shaped the Sufi path. This firsthand experience with diverse Islamic cultures enhances the authenticity and depth of his exploration. For readers intrigued by spirituality, philosophy, or world religions, "The Mystics of Islam" serves as an essential guide to understanding the rich tapestry of Sufi thought and practice. Nicholsons insightful analysis not only unveils the beauty and complexity of Islamic mysticism but also invites reflection on the universal search for meaning that transcends cultural boundaries.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- A succinct Introduction situates the works timeless appeal and themes.- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the eras events and influences that shaped the writing.- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the works messages, connecting them to modern life.- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

El Corán, texto completo con índice activo, es la obra fundacional del Islam, que reúne revelaciones consideradas por los musulmanes como la palabra directa de Dios a Mahoma. Este texto sagrado se caracteriza por su estilo poetico y su estructura no lineal, presentando una variedad de temas que abarcan la teologia, la moralidad, la ley y la espiritualidad. En su contexto literario, el Coran se erige como un hito en la lengua arabe, con un uso magistral de la elocuencia, la repeticion y la metafora, desafiando a los lectores a encontrar en su contenido una guia para la vida diaria y la comunidad. Su lectura no solo ofrece la vision del Islam, sino que tambien proporciona una ventana a la cultura arabe del siglo VII. Mahoma, nacido en La Meca alrededor del 570 d.C., es considerado el ultimo profeta en el Islam. Su vida, marcada por experiencias de reflexion y un fuerte sentido de justicia social, le llevo a recibir las revelaciones que componen el Coran a lo largo de 23 años. La situacion sociopolitica de la Arabia preislamica, caracterizada por la idolatria y la desunion, influencio su llamado a la unicidad de Dios y la comunidad musulmana. Por tanto, el Coran no solo es un texto espiritual, sino tambien un documento historico que refleja la lucha de su autor por establecer una nueva cohesion social. Recomiendo encarecidamente la lectura de El Coran a todos aquellos interesados en profundizar en la espiritualidad y la cultura islamica. Este texto trasciende su contexto religioso, invitando al lector a un viaje de reflexion y comprension sobre temas universales como la justicia, la paz y la relacion del ser humano con lo divino. Su estudio no solo enriquecera el entendimiento del Islam, sino que tambien fomentara un dialogo intercultural esencial en el mundo contemporaneo.