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xxvi, 403 pages : frontispiece ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Graves -- Author's preface -- The Islanders -- a fable -- The background: I. The travelers and the grapes -- The background: II. The elephant in the dark -- The subtleties of Mulla Nasrudin -- Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz -- Fariduddin Attar, the chemist -- Our Master Jalaluddin Rumi -- Ibn El-Arabi: the greatest of sheikh -- El-Ghazali of Persia -- Omar Khayyam -- The secret language: I. The coalmen -- The secret language: II. The builders -- The secret language: III. The philosopher's stone -- Mysteries in the West: I. Strange rites -- Mysteries in the West: II. The chivalric circle -- Mysteries in the West: III. The head of wisdom -- Mysteries in the West: IV. Francis of Assisi -- Mysteries in the West: V. The secret doctrine -- The higher law -- The book of dervishes -- The dervish orders -- Seeker after knowledge -- The creed of love -- Miracles and magic -- The teacher, the teaching, the taught -- The Far East -- Annotations -- Appendix I. Esoteric interpretation of the Koran -- Appendix II. The rapidness. |
| Summary |
Presents the "secret teaching within all religions", the philosophy of Sufism, and the Sufist viewpoint as expressed in literature. |
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Sufism.
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Sufism. (OCoLC)fst01137257
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