Abu cAbd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami (d.412/1021) lived in the 3rd and 4th century AH / 9th and 10th century CE. He was born in the city of Nishapur; one of the most renowned cities in the Islamic world. He was part of a line of earlier Sufi figures who attempted to defend the cardinal tenets of Sufism from accusations of heresy. However al-Sulami's surpassed his predecessors by amassing a corpus of antecedent mystical dicta from the architects of Islamic mysticism and substantiating them with transmission channels (isnad) or grounding them in a core teaching of the Prophet Muhammad. This study demonstrates that al-Sulami was an accomplished mystic. It outlines his life and times and surveys in full all his works as far as they can be identified. Moreover; the important sources that shaped the development and impression of his thinking and modality of transforming the ego-self (nafs) are presented in detail bringing together earlier and current academic scholarship on him.
#2395171 in Books I. B. Tauris 2012-10-02 2012-10-02Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.00 #File Name: 1780760620240 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Pendle Hill and Lancashire WitchesBy Kathryn WinterBased on the trial transcripts; but it includes information regarding the changes in the laws of England in the early 1600's. Excellent resource for the serious student.
