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We'd like to share with you a selection of titles on Sufism and Islam that have recently been published. Please check back with us periodically to see what's new...

CHINESE GLEAMS OF SUFI LIGHT
By Sachiko Murata
Price: $23.95

This book investigates the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and explores why the four books translated from Islamic languages into Chinese before the twentieth century were all Persian Sufi texts.

EARLY SUFI WOMEN
By Abu Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami
Price: $24.95

This work is a tradition of the long-lost Dhikr an-Niswat al-muta 'abbidat as-sufiyyat, the influential work on Sufi women saints by Abu Adb ar-Rahman as-Sulami (d 1021). As-Sulami, the great systematizer of Sufi doctrine and author of the famous Tabaqat as-Sufiyya (Categories of the Sufis), originally wrote this work as an appendix to his Tabaqat, which only includes hagiographical notices on male saints.

THE HERITAGE OF SUFISM VOLUME III: Late Classical Persainte Sufism (1501-1750)
Edited by Leonard Lewisohn and David Morgan
Price: $42.95

This final volume of The Heritage of Sufism celebrates the mystical culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, and age characterized by a flowering of Persainate culture and which marked the peak of Muslim political power in the region.

THE ILLUSTRATED RUMI: A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul
A New Translation by Philip Dunn, Manuela Dunn Mascetti and R.A. Nicholson
Price: $29.95

The spiritual wealth of Rumi's stories and poetry in translation are accompanied by rare and wonderful art in the Sufi and Islamic tradition. This fresh rendering brings new life to these incomparable parables. With a foreword by Hurston Smith, the work of this inimitable mystic is here in prose and poetry taken from all the works of the master.

ISLAMIC SUFISM
By The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Price: $25.00

The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah says "The modern world stands in need of biological renewal. And religion, which in its higher manifestations is neither dogma, nor priesthood, nor ritual, can alone ethically prepare the modern man for the burden of the great responsibility which the advancement of modern science necessarily involves, and restore. Islamic Sufism gives a clear and uncluttered picture of both Islam and Sufism, stating exactly what the difference is between the two. Order: Naqshbandiyya Sufi Order

LOVE IS A FIRE: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Price: $14.95

An introduction to the Sufi path of love, taking the reader into the passion and wisdom of this mystical tradition. The call of the heart and how it draws us back to divine union is one of mankind's greatest secrets, and for the Sufi this love is a fire that burns away all traces of separation. Love is a Fire is based on live talks and meetings with the author. Order: Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Order of Sufism

THE NAME AND THE NAMED
By Shaykh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti
Price: $15.95

In the Islamic Sufi tradition, it is said, "Qualify yourself with the qualities of God." Compiled from classical Arabic and Turkish texts of Al-Ghazali, Ibn 'Arabi, Djili, and Abdul Qadir Jilani, among others, these are the ninety-nine divine attributes by which God manifests Himself in the world and by which He completes the spiritual life of man. Order: Jerrahi Order of America
(Formerly published as The Most Beautiful Names)