Ibn Ghānim, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad, -1279?.
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by the learned Sheikh Izzidin son of Abdusalam son of Ahmad son of Ghanim ; translated by Irene Hoare and Darya Galy ; with a preface by Al Hajj Anwar, K. Winstone Hamilton.
Sufism. Sufism History. Sufism Early works to 1800. Sufism 20th century.
BP189.62. / I26 1980
Library of Congress Classification / Monograph
3ACKU000375708 3ACKU000375716
“Al-Muqaddasi : revelation of the secrets of the birds and flowers”—cover title.
“First published 1980 ; reprinted 1987”—reverse of title page.
“A most important Sufi document, written by Muqaddasi, who died seven hundred years ago. The work is a religious psychology dealing with three phenomena : (1) the way in which communities think and the results of emotionality and narrow beliefs ; (2) the shifting consciousness of the individual ; and (3) the strengths and weaknesses of simplistic and sophisticated mental postures. It is astonishingly ‘modern’ in its approach, once its terminology is understood”—back cover.