TY - BOOK AU - Ibn Ghānim,ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad TI - Revelation of the secrets of the birds and flowers / SN - 900860758 AV - BP189.62. I26 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - London : PB - The Octagon Press, KW - Sufism KW - History KW - Early works to 1800 KW - 20th century N1 - “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 ER -