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A Selection of Books and Recordings from Pir Publications, Inc.
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REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY By AL-HUJWIRI Foreward by Carl W. Ernst ISBN: 1-879708-14-0 Price: $18 Trade paper, 472 pages Like Rumi, Hafiz and Attar, al-Hujwiri was one of the great saints of Sufism. Revelation of the Mystery, or Kashf al-mahjub, has been revered by students of Sufism for nine centuries. This classic text contains biographies of the saints, including Fudayl, the brigand who became a great spiritual teacher; Ibrahim Adham, the prince who renounced everything when he received the divine call; and al-Hallaj, the great Sufi martyr. Al-Hujwiri also offers the spiritual seeker universal and timeless advice on many subjects, such as contemplation, generosity, spiritual courtesy, prayer, love and distinguishing false spirituality and false teachers from the real, a discernment just as important today as then. "It has been said that those who seek a guide in Sufism should do three things: pray for guidance, visit the tombs of the great shaykhs, and read [Revelation of the Mystery]." - Carl W. Ernst, author of The Shambhala Guide to Sufism |
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CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS By FARID UD-DIN ATTAR Translated by C.S. NOTT ISBN: 1-879708-13-2 Price: $12 Trade paper, 160 pages The Conference of the Birds is one of the great works of world literature. In it Farid ud-Din Attar explores the nature of the spiritual path through an allegory of the brave birds that go in search of their king through the peaks of exultation and the valleys of despair that represent the stages of the seeker as he travels towards enlightenment. Attar was the predecessor of the great Persian Sufi poet Jalalludin Rumi, who borrowed Attar's technique of weaving wisdom within entertaining and amusing tales. "Attar, along with Chaucer and Dante, is a great genius of community and how that involves the path toward enlightenment. We are these bird-beings searching for the source of what we are together." - Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi |
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READINGS FROM THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM Translated by Margaret Smith ISBN: 1-879708-09-4 Price: $11.95 Trade paper, 120 pages Readings from the Mystics of Islam is an anthology of writings from Islamic mysticism's greatest masters of wisdom, translated and edited by Margaret Smith, the renowned scholar of Sufism. Ranging from the beginnings of Sufism in the 8th century to the modern era, the selections include jewels of mystical thought and experience from Rabia, al-Hallaj, Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Hafiz, among others. |
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