Sufism
The Transmission West
On Gurdjieff's Sufi sources, Idries Shah's radical critique, and what survived and what was lost when Sufism crossed into Western esotericism
Sufism
Sufism
The Orders
On the Sufi tariqa system, the silsila of transmission, the sheikh-mureed relationship, and what it means to receive a living tradition
Sufism
The Stations and the States
On the maqamat and ahwal, the structure of the Sufi path, and the precise cartography of interior transformation
Sufism
Ibn Arabi and the Imaginal World
On the greatest systematic mystic of Islam, the Unity of Being, and the doctrine that the cosmos is God's imagination of itself
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Fana and Baqa
On the annihilation of the self in God, the subsistence that follows, and the Sufi psychology of what survives ego-dissolution
Sufism
The Wine That Was Never Grapes
On Rumi, the reed flute of separation, and the Masnavi as a complete curriculum in the experience of divine longing
Sufism
The Tavern at the Edge of the World
On Hafez, the Double-Coded Poem, and the Trojan Horse of Persian Mysticism
Sufism
The Greatest Sheikh
On Ibn Arabi, the Unity of Being, and the Most Sophisticated Mystical Philosophy in Any Tradition
Sufism
I Am the Truth
On Al-Hallaj, the Martyr of Islamic Mysticism, and What the Institution Cannot Forgive