03248nam 2200565Ia 450 991082126230332120240417034307.00-7914-8120-41-4294-7126-3(CKB)1000000000473990(SSID)ssj0000187833(PQKBManifestationID)11202352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187833(PQKBWorkID)10143799(PQKB)10832710(MiAaPQ)EBC3407644(OCoLC)137541951(MdBmJHUP)muse6454(Au-PeEL)EBL3407644(CaPaEBR)ebr10579067(OCoLC)923407371(EXLCZ)99100000000047399020051212d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrKnowing the spirit[electronic resource] /Ostad Elahi ; translated and with an introduction by James Winston MorrisAlbany State University of New York Pressc2007viii, 158 pTranslated from the Persian.0-7914-6857-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.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 -- T -- U -- V -- W.A modern spiritual classic on the perfection of the soul by a renowned writer from the Islamic tradition.SoulIslamIslamDoctrinesSoulIslam.IslamDoctrines.297.2/25Ilāhī Nūr ʻAli1895-1974.1630331Morris James Winston1949-1630332MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821262303321Knowing the spirit3968573UNINA