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 -- Knowing the Spirit -- 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 -- |