Knowing The Spirit Maʻrifat Al-rūḥ. English Project Muse Upcc Books

Ostad Elahi's Knowing The Spirit Provides A Concise And Remarkably Illuminating Philosophic Account Of Our Unique Place In The Universe: Of The Creative Expressions Of The Divine Spirit Throughout Nature, And Of The Process Of The Soul's Deepening Perfection Through All The Challenges And Lessons Of Our Existence In This World And Beyond. This Revealing Book Draws Together In A Single Vision Those Symbolic Teachings And Spiritual Insights Familiar To Many Western Readers Today Through The Classical Mystical Poetry Of Rumi, Hafez, And Attar. The Historical Context And Language Of This Study Are Marked By The Confluence Of Classical Islamic Philosophy And Spirituality, Including Sufi Thought, And Their Scriptural Sources.--book Jacket. Table Of Contents -- Preface And Acknowledgements -- Translator's Introduction -- 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 -- Historical Contexts : The Audience, Language And Structure Of Ma'rifat Ar-rūh -- The Three Sources : Rational Argument, Religious Tradition, And Spiritual Experience -- Allusion And Realization -- The Basic Structure Of Knowing The Spirit : The Origin And The Return -- The Contemporary Significance Of Knowing The Spirit -- The Persian Text And Translation Conventions --[translation Of Knowing The Spirit]. Original Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Establishing The Existence Of The Divine Artisan -- The Spirit -- The Gathering, Reawakening, And Returning (of The Spirit) In The Realm Of Return -- The Purely Bodily Return -- The Purely Spiritual Return -- The Harmonization Of A Bodily And Spiritual Return -- The (spirit's) Return By Way Of The Process Of Perfection -- The Belief Of The Proponents Of Transmigration -- Conclusion. Ostad Elahi ; Translated And With An Introduction By James Winston Morris. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 145-148) And Index. Translated From The Persian. Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit provides a concise and remarkably illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throughout nature, and of the process of the soul's deepening perfection through all the challenges and lessons of our existence in this world and beyond. This revealing book draws together in a single vision those symbolic teachings and spiritual insights familiar to many Western readers today through the classical mystical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Attar. The historical context and language of this study are marked by the confluence of classical Islamic philosophy and spirituality, including Sufi thought, and their scriptural sources. But Elahi's thought integrates those influences and marks them with the magisterial imprint of his own profound spiritual experience and characteristic simplicity, openness, and directness of expression. This volume offers a singular masterpiece of recent spiritual thought, opening up fundamental human perspectives and possibilities too often clouded by the distractions of current events. The emphatic universality of both the subject and presentation of Knowing the Spirit points the way to unsuspected bridges between different civilizations and religious traditions, indeed to the prospect of an inclusive'science of spirituality'based on the common ground of each person's spiritual life and experience. Table of contents Preface and acknowledgements Translator's introduction 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" Historical contexts: the audience, language and structure of ma'rifat ar-ruh The "three sources": rational argument, religious tradition, and spiritual experience Allusion and realization The basic structure of Knowing the spirit: "the origin and the return" The contemporary significance of Knowing the spirit The Persian text and translation conventions Translation of Knowing the spirit Original table of contents Introduction Establishing the existence of the Divine Artisan The spirit The gathering, reawakening, and returning (of the spirit) in the realm of return The purely bodily return The purely spiritual return The harmonization of a bodily and spiritual return The (spirit's) return by way of the process of perfection The views of the proponents of transmigration Conclusion.