PHILOSOPHY,
MYSTICISM, Tasawuf, Sfism, Ghazali
Q012. Philosophy of the Qur’an
By Hafiz
Ghulam Sarwar
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.---Pages 262.
This book is the product of the author’s lifelong
study of religion, science and philosophy. He has made a successful attempt at
proving that the Real (or God) is revealing Himself to all mankind in all ages
and in all countries and that Truth is not the monopoly of any creed or race. It offers an unbiased study of the Philosophy
of all ages and is a convincing proof of the adaptability of the teachings of
the Holy Qur’an to all stages of human civilization.
ISBN NO. 969-432-011-9.
Q017.
Ghazali’s Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche for Lights)
By W.H.T.
Gairdner, Tr.
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.---Pages 184.
This is the English translation of Imam Ghazali’s
mystical treatise on the Light Verse of the Holy Qur’an: “Allah is the Light of
the Heavens and the Earth. The parable of His Light is as if there was a Niche
and within it a Lamp; the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the Glass as it were a
brilliant Star lit from a blessed Tree, an olive, neither of the East nor of
the West.......(xxiv : 35).
A brief but crucial contribution to understanding
Ghazali’s mystical insight.
ISBN NO. 969-432-012-7.
H027. Ta'wil al-Ahadith (Shah Waliyullah)
By
G. N. Jalbani, Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm --- Pages 112.
In this book Shah Waliyullah briefly traces
the history of those of the Prophets from Adam to Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
whose names have come in the Holy Qur'an, and throws sufficient light on their
individual perfections. He has shown therein that there were natural causes,
visible and invisible, behind every event that had taken place in their life.
Even the miracles worked by them were linked with certain causes.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-240-5.
RC055. A Comparative Study of Islam and Other
Religions
By Syed Muzaffaruddin
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages
128.
The learned author presents in
this book facts and arguments, supported by quotations from the verses of the
Holy Qur'an and sayings of the Holy Prophet, to prove that Islam has been
clearly and unmistakably defined and explained by Allah and His Apostle, and
all Muslim scholars and divines have agreed on the principles of the religion
of Islam.
In the beginning of the book,
the author has given a concise account of Religion in general, followed by a
short description of well-known religions of the world.
ISBN NO. 969-432-029-17.
RC065. A Comparative Study of Christianity and
Islam
By Mrs. Ulfat Aziz-us-Samad
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 200.
The message that God sent down
to different Prophets raised in different countries at different times were, of
course, identical as far as their essential features were concerned. Thus,
Islam does not reject the religion of Jesus but, in fact, confirms it, only
pointing out in what respects Christianity has deviated and fallen away from
the religion of Jesus. Islam is thus seen by its followers as the revival,
restatement and final and complete version of the religion of Jesus.
This comparative study of
Christianity and Islam would, therefore, be of considerable interest to
students of religion and seekers after truth.
ISBN NO. 969-432-040-2.
RC0103. Islam on
Origin and Evolution of Life
By Dr. Majid Ali Khan
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 244.
Modern society is rapidly
changing due to scientific achievements and discoveries. Because of
misunderstandings and bigotry there has been conflict between religion and
science. The Holy Qur'an stimulates mankind to study the natural phenomena and
contemplate Allah's Divinity. Muslim scholars laid down the foundation of
modern scientific and technological developments which, because of stagnation
in Muslim activities, were appropriated by Western nations. The Western
scientists did not recognise well the metaphysical and spiritual phenomena.
Religion and sciences were thus allowed to exist as separate entities of
knowledge. The Islamic approach recognises both the physical and metaphysical,
the materialistic and the spiritual order of the universe and calls on mankind
to pursue life in this togetherness as they interdepend upon one another for
existence.
It is this dichotomy which the
author wishes to deal with in this book.
ISBN NO. 969-432-063-1.
BM121. Ibn Khaldun, His Life and Work
By M. A. Enan
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 205.
A comparative and critical
study of the life of the historian and philosopher, Ibn Khaldun, acknowledged
by Western critics to be the founder of modern sociology, his intellectual and
social legacy, his method and style.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-126-3.
BM122. Ibn al-Arabi
By S. A. Q. Husaini
14 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages
110. (Paper Back)
Ibn al-Arabi is an astounding
personality. His doctrines on mysticism and monism still hold complete sway in
all Muslim countries. In the history of Muslim philosophy the study of Ibn
al-Arabi and his teaching forms a very important chapter.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-129-8.
BM124. Tadhkaratul Auliya (Memoirs of Saints)
By Dr. Bankey Behari
14
cm. x 21.5 cm. Pages 245. (Hard
Binding)
This book is an English
translation of selections from the Tadhkarah. In this volume will be found
sayings of sixty-two saints of the highest order and incidents of their lives,
placing before the keen seekers after truth an account of the tense yearning
that burnt in the hearts of the great Sufis who, by stating their experiences,
taught the sublimest and simplest way to realisation and also how to escape the
vagaries that beset the seekers treading the Path.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-125-5.
BM125. Falcon of Spain
By Dr. T.B. Irving
14
cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages viii + 238.
(Hard Binding)
It is a study of Spain under
the strong Ummayyad ruler, Abdur Rahman I (756-788), when Arab power and
influence reached its furthest to the West, dealing illuminatingly with a
sub-division of European history. The adventures of Abdur Rahman, till and
after his establishment in Spain, offer an interesting reading. With an
illustrative map.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-124-7.
BM127. The Saint of Jilan
By S. A. Salik
12
cm. x 17.5 cm. --- Pages 117.
Sayyid ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani,
popularly known as Ghauth al A’zam (the greatest of all helpers) was a
great preacher, a great educationist and a great philanthrophist. His life is
essentially spiritual. Miracles and supernatural things form a great part of
his life.
In this book all these aspects
of the life of the saint have been set forth in English for the benefit of the
English-knowing readers; acclaimed as the best book on the subject.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-123-9.
BM128. Khawaja Gharib Nawaz
By Dr. Zahurul Hasan Sharib
14
cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 174.
(Hard Binding)
This is the first biography in
English of the great saint of Ajmer (India), Hazrat Khawaja Muin-ud-Din Hasan
Chishti, with several half-tone illustrations including a Fascimile of the
saint's book Afaq-o-Anfas.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-121-2.
BM129. Sayyid Ahmad
By M. Hedayatellah
14
cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 196.
This is a study of the
Religious Reform Movement of Sayyid Ahmad of Ra’e Bareli, which he carried on
between the years 1818-1821. This work aims at studying the real significance
of Sayyid Ahmad’s Sufi-religious reform movement, which has not yet been
treated properly. In this work the author has based his study primarily on the
sayings of Sayyid Ahmad as recorded in Sirat-i-Mustaqim, and other contemporary
and recent sources. The author has made special endeavours in this work to draw
attention to the contribution made by Sayyid Ahmad to the socio-religious life
of Indian Muslims through a new way of Sufi teaching which he called the Tariqah-i-Muhammadiyah.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-117-4.
BM130. Ibn as-Sikkit
By Dr. S. A. Ahmedali
12
cm. x 17.5 cm. --- Pages 63.
This is the biographical part of the author’s
“Prolegomena” from his larger work on Ibn as-Sikkit’s Islah al-Mantiq.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-122-0.
BM131. Life of Shah Waliyullah
By G.N. Jalbani
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 96.
This small volume has a rich
store of information about Shah Waliyullah’s life, mainly gathered from his
writings. What chiefly characterises it is the collection of data in relation
to the dates of some of his compositions. Bibliography and Index.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-120-4.
BM132. Rumi : The Persian Mystic
By F. Hadland Davis
12
cm. x 17.5 cm. --- Pages 183.
The book contains a short
life-sketch and translation of some selected small chapters: on (1) Origin of
Sufism; (2) The Early Sufis; (3) The Nature of Sufism; (4) The Influence of
Sufism; (5) Analysis of the Religion of Love. A note on Persian poetry forms an
appendix to the book.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-114-X.
BM133. Jami: The Persian Mystic
By F. Hadland Davis
12
cm. x 17.5 cm. --- Pages 111.
(Paper Back)
The book contains: (1) The
Life of Jami; (2) The Story of Salman and Absal; (3) The Teaching of the
Lawaih; (4) The Story of Yusuf and Zulaikha; (5) The Baharistan or "Abode
of Spring" and selections from Salman and Absal, Lawaih, Yusuf
wa Zulaikha Baharistan.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-113-1.
BM136. The Confessions of al-Ghazali
By Claud Field
12
cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 70.
(Paper Back)
In addition to a short
life-sketch of Ghazali, the work describes his personal experiences. He also
has reviewed some sects whom he encountered during search for truth, e.g. the
scholastic theologians who profess to follow reason and speculation; the
philosophers who call themselves masters of Logic and Demonstration; the Sufis
who perceive the manifestation of Truth as common men perceive material
phenomena.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-118-2.
PM142. The Just Balance
By D.P. Brewster Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 165.
This is the English translation with
explanatory notes of Imam Ghazali's al-Qistas al-Mustaqim. This work of
Ghazali is directed against the Ismailis, and at the same time it reveals the
state of Islamic theology at a crucial period of its formulation. It
demonstrates the methods adopted by one of the foremost exponents of that
theology, one who became known as "the proof of Islam" (Hujjat
al-Islam) by his admirers. It reveals, furthermore, the extent to which
theologians of Islam were acquainted with the methods of Greek philosophy and
the extent to which they were prepared to adopt these methods in the defence of
their faith.
The intention of the translator is to
illuminate the debate between the orthodox (or Sunni) position and that
occupied by Ismailis. Ghazali's argument comes through very clearly and shows
the use he made of philosophical methods.
ISBN
NO. 969 -432-111-5.
PM 143. Mystic Tendencies in Islam
By M.M. Zahur-ud-Din Ahmad
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 236.
This book aims at explaining the origin and
development of mysticism. The learned author has attempted to analyse the chief
elements of Islamic mysticism and has shown in what way its basic principles
are related to the fundamental tenets of Islam. It is purported to be a
criticism of the origin and development of the Sufi movement among the Muslims
in the light of the Qur’an and Traditions of the Prophet, the two chief sources
of knowledge about Islam.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-112-3.
PM144. Creation of Man
By Maulana Kausar Niazi
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 134.
The author has always a valid ground for
what he believes or rejects. Being a scholar of this disposition, he could
hardly leave the Darwinian theory of Evolution without examining it closely.
In this book he has critically examined the
theory raising some fairly valid points against it. According to him, Adam's
descent on earth as the vicegerent of the Almighty was far more noble and
inspiring than his chimpanzic past wrapped in total darkness. He has quoted
European writers to prove that man did not evolve monotheism through a
protracted experimentation with a mass of idolatrous ideas; man; he says
started his journey on this planet long ago as a monotheist being, going
occasionally astray, to be brought back to the righteous path by a long line of
Prophets - Muhammad being the last of them.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-244-8.
PM145. Studies in Tasawwuf
By Khaja Khan Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 272.
The learned author has tried to put the
thoughts of established writers on the subject in such a way that the different
parts of the system harmonise with one another, at least to the best of his
understanding.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-100-X.
PM146. The Secret of Ana'l-Haqq
By K. S. Khaja Khan Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 196.
This is the translation of a Persian work
entitled Irshadat-i-Shaikh Ibrahim. The author has most philosophically
expounded the doctrine of "how God is manifest in man" in the form of
short detached sayings as is the wont of Sufi teachers which the translator has
classified and arranged in chapters.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-246-4.
PM147. The Philosophy of Islam
By Khaja Khan
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 142.
"Tasawwuf" is a subject that people
fear to teach from public platform. The common feeling is that it is a species
of knowledge that descends from breast to breast; it is the torch that is
handed down from the Murshid to his Murid.
While the discussion of subtle questions
before the uninitiated is apt to lead them astray, the promulgation of secret
doctrines is like leading men to a vast unexplored field full of pitfalls and
quicksands. In most cases such teaching has had the effect of leading them away
from the path of Islam. To invite, therefore, Muslim thinkers to this way of
seeking the truth, this book is offered. The author says: "If I have
succeeded in showing what Tasawwuf is not, one-half of my task is done."
Hence the author has tried to show that Islamic doctrines and practices, if
probed deeply, would be found to have the support of the most earnest thinkers
of the West.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-099-2.
PM148. Faith and Practice of
al-Ghazzali
By W. Montgomery Watt
12
cm. x 17.5 cm. --- Pages 155.
This book contains two works of Ghazali;
the first is his spiritual autobiography which is closer to the modern Western
outlook than any other of the great books of Islam. The other work translated
here sets out his ideal of how the religious man should order his life from
hour to hour and day to day.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-132-8.
PM149. Some Moral and Religious
Teachings of Ghazali
By S. Nawab Ali
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 182.
The book, besides giving the reader a
correct idea of Ghazali's approach to various religious questions, will also
arouse the interest of the reader to study Ghazali's works more immediately and
at first hand. His approach is always the lifting of the veil from the eyes of
the heart so as to see the mysterious relation between man and his Maker and to
be filled with a sense of awe and reverence in the presence of an Omnipotent
Holy Being Who pervades the universe.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-133-6.
PM150. The Ethical Philosophy of
al-Ghazali
By M. Umaruddin
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 348.
The book is the outcome of long thinking
and laborious research in Islamic philosophy. The author has thoroughly
explored the original sources, both in Islamic philosophy and Western thought.
The book opens a new chapter in the presentation of Islamic thought to the
modern world, in particular the fundamental aspects and speculations of
al-Ghazali, who has deeply influenced the course of Muslim thinking during the
last eight hundred years.
It has been generally held that al-Ghazali
believed in the finitude of thought and worked out a system of mysticism which
was unnatural and foreign to Islam. The author conclusively refutes the
charges. The final good and happiness of man, according to him, consists in the
perfect realisation of the self, which depends on the most harmonious and
equable interrelation between intellect, self-assertion and appetite.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-134-4.
PM151. The Alchemy of Happiness
By Claud Field Tr.,
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 136.
As a practical mystic, Ghazali's aim was to
make man better by leading him from a merely rational acquiescence in the
stereotyped creed of Islam to a real knowledge of God. The first four chapters
of his Kimiya-i-Sa'adat are a commentary on the famous verse in the Hadith:
"He who knows himself knows God."
This little volume contains eight sections
of the Kimiya-i-Sa'adat.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-135-2.
PM152. The Elements of Islamic
Philosophy
By Ali Mahdi Khan
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 155.
The book deals with Nature and Value of
Muslim Philosophy, the Beginnings of Muslim Philosophy; the Eastern
Philosophers; the Western Philosophers, Development of Sufism etc.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-136-0.
Ghazali’s ihya ‘ulum al-din
Renan calls Ghazali "the most original
mind among Muslim philosophers". "Philosopher and sceptic as he was
by nature," says Claud Field, "Ghazali's chief work was that of a
theologian, moralist and mystic, though his mysticism was strongly balanced by
common sense." It is a characteristic of Ghazali which appeals to the
modern mind in the way in which he expounds the religious argument from
probability. He is accepted as an orthodox authority and is considered Hujjat
al-Islam (Proof of Islam). It is said that if all the books of Islam were
destroyed it would be but a slight loss if only the Ihya' of Ghazali
were preserved.
The books that are described below are
translations of some of the books of the Ihya'.
PM153. Imam Ghazali's Ihya Ulum-id-Din (4 Vols.)
By Fazlul Karim
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 1556.
This book is the English version of Ihya
Ulum-id-Din of Imam Ghazzali, who is the greatest thinker of all the World of
Islam. This book, Ihya is a sea of knowledge full of reasons and arguments,
full of Qur'anic Verses, traditions of the Holy Prophet and of the companions
and the famous saints of early ages. Imam was not a blind follower of sects but
he was an independent thinker. As the world is ever advancing with new ideas
and scientific discoveries, so also this work is full of novel and great ideas
and scientific discoveries and thereby the Imam revived truly the religious
sciences and gave them an impetus never given by his predecessors in such a
manner.
The book is in four volumes. Every volume
is full in itself.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-145-X.
PM154. The Foundations of the
Articles of Faith
By Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 152.
Ihya's Kitab Qawa'id al-Aqa'id comprises (1) an exposition of the creed of
the orthodox community as embodied in the words of Shahadah; (2)
introduction to religious institutions and the stages of belief; (3) obvious
proofs for the creed; (4) belief and Islam, the relation between and the
differences which distinguish them.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-138-7.
PM155. The Mysteries of Almsgiving
By Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, Tr.
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 106.
On the Prophet's uttering, "Verily
they are the lost ones," he was asked who they were. He said in reply:
"Those who have the most of wealth except him who gives it to his
fellowmen...." This saying of the Prophet urged Ghazali to unfold the
mysteries of almsgiving (zakat), its obvious and hidden rules and its
outward and inward significance, limiting his discussion to those things which
the payer of zakat and its recipient should know.
This forms the Kitab Asrar al-Zakat
of Ghazali'i Ihya.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-139-5.
PM156. The Mysteries of Purity (New Revised Edition)
By Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, Tr.
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 108.
"Purification," the Prophet said,
"is the key to prayer" and "Religion was founded on
cleanliness"; Purification is one half of belief." The Holy Qur'an is
too eloquent on this subject: "Therein are men who aspire to purity, and
God loves the purified."
This book is the English translation of Kitab
Asrar al-Taharah of the Ihya.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-140-9.
PM157. The Mysteries of Fasting (New Revised Edition)
By Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 52.
The practice of fasting as a spiritual
discipline is both ancient and widespread. It antedates Islam, even among the
Arabs and from time immemorial it has been observed in various ways by Jews,
Christians, and eastern and pagan religions. In Islam it is one of the most
important institutions.
This book is the English translation of Kitab
Asrar al-Sawm which is the fifth book of the first quarter of the Ihya'.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-141-7.
PM158. The Book of Knowledge
By Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, Tr.
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 244.
"The most severely punished of all men
on the Day of Resurrection," goes a Tradition of the Prophet of Islam,
"will be a learned man whom God has not blessed with His knowledge."
Ghazali was urged to write Kitab al-'Ilm of the Ihya' seeing the people
around him persistently straying from the clear truth and their insistence upon
fostering evil, flattering ignorance.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-142-5.
PM159. The Mysteries of Worship in
Islam
By E.E. Calverley, Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 212.
This is the English translation of the Kitab
al-Salat, the fourth of the ten books of the 'Ibadat which form the
first quarter of the forty books of Ihya'. It describes the proper performance
of the Salat in all its phases, leaving nothing untouched.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-143-3.
PM160. The Mysteries of the Human
Soul
By Abdul Qayyum "Shafaq" Hazarvi
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 93.
The question "what is the human
soul?" is as old as man's appearance on the earth. Almost every nation,
each according to its understanding and knowledge, has tried to find an answer
to this question. Philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to solve this
problem. The materialistic thinkers of the West deny the existence of any such
entity as soul.
Imam Ghazali, who is one of the greatest
exponents of Islam of all ages and is rightly regarded as the Hujjat
al-Islam (Proof of Islam), has rendered a great service to the Ummah
by his rational and easy expositions, both in Arabic and Persian. He stands
prominent in harmonising reason with revelation on a rational basis, and
fearlessly refutes the heretical doctrines of some of the most eminent
philosophers of his day.
In this book is presented the English
translation of Imam Ghazali's Arabic work entitled al-Madnun Bihi `Ala
Ghairi Ahlihi, a treasure of Arabic literature and one of the finest works
on mystical expression. Ghazali persuades his readers that he has cast a ray of
light on the secret places of the heart and has increased human understanding
about soul.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-144-1.
PM161. Al-Ghazali on Divine Predicates and Their Properties
By Abdu-r-Rahman Abu Zayd, Tr.,
14
cm. x 21.5 cm. --- Pages 148.
In Islam, the question of the Divine
Attributes has been treated from various perspectives. In the beginning it was
viewed primarily as a semantic and metaphysical problem. A later introduction,
its logical aspect, however, was its most important side. The translator
attempts to treat the problem with this logical aspect predominantly in mind.
Limited both by the scope of this work and by the task of bringing this vast
material into reasonable compass, he confines himself to the treatment of the
problem as it unfolds itself in Islamic Peripatetic thought, and the Ash'arite
school, with Ghazali being the major representative of the latter. He tests the
validity of some of Ghazali's statements in Iqtisad against the former
schools and findings in Plato and Aristotle.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-137-9.
PM162. Teachings of Shah Waliyullah
By G.N. Jalbani
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Page 198.
Enough has been written on Shah Waliyullah
in the Urdu language, but it is peculiarly strange that no serious effort has
yet been made in presenting his teachings to the English readership. The book
fills this vacuum. Second revised edition.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-245-6.
PM163. The Idea of Personality in
Sufism
By R.A. Nicholson
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 114.
The book attempts to show by means of
examples chosen from literature, that Sufism is not necessarily pantheistic but
often bears the marks of a genuine personal religion inspired by a personal
God, even if we must beware of attributing to Muslims all that the term
"personality" suggests.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-146-8.
PM164. The ‘Awarif-ul-Ma‘arif
By Shaikh Shahab-ud-Din `Umar b. Muhammad Suhrawardi,
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 310.
Suhrawardi was born at a time when the
whole Muslim world was passing through a very critical phase of its history. In
615/1218 started the Mongol onslaught under Chingiz when one town after another
was being ravaged and people were indiscriminately butchered without any check.
Consequently the people lost their morale. It was during this period of
insecurity and fear that Suhrawardi lived. These events influenced his mind and
that is why the note of pessimism is often met with in his work in which he
gives expression to his sadness on the decline in the moral character of his
contemporaries.
Mahmud b. Ali al-Kashani rendered this work
into Persian under the title Misbah-ul-Hidayah.
This English translation comprises more
than half of the Misbah-ul-Hidayah. Lt. Col. H. Wilberforce Clarke
rendered it into English from the Persian version.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-147-6.
PM165. The Mujaddid's Conception of
Tawhid
By Dr. Burhan Ahmad Faruqi,
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 138.
In this book the author has worked out the
conception of Tawhid in the thought of that great Islamic mystic, Shaikh
Ahmad Sirhindi, who is generally called the Mujaddid-i-Alf-i-Thani.
Shaikh Ahmad is the first and greatest
among the mystics of Islam who expressly and strenuously opposed the
Pantheistic conception of Tawhid known as Wahdat-i-Wujud or Tawhid-i-Wujudi.
This conception had become almost universal amongst Muslim mystics, specially
since Ibn `Arabi who wrote on it extensively and has had enormous influence on
the subsequent thought of Islam, and gave it wide publicity.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-148-4.
PM166. An Introduction to the Sufi
Doctrine
By Titus Burckhardt. Translated by D.M.
Matheson,
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 178.
There are people who are either ignorant of
the true nature of Sufism or have come to think of it as something extraneous
to Islam resulting from borrowings from outside sources. But such doctrines can
be understood only from within as a result of a process of assimilation and
penetration which go far beyond the realm of discursive thought or scholarship,
but such books can be of great value as an introduction to the metaphysical
doctrine.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-149-2.
PM167. The Qur‘anic Sufism
By Dr. Mir Valiuddin
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 229.
The author of this book, as a student of
philosophy and as professor of that subject for years at the Osmania
University, has spread the subject on a wide metaphysical canvas and instituted
comparison, very rightly confining himself to presenting the view as it has
appeared to him, of the mystic heritage which, undisturbed by the disturbance
of history, has continued from the earliest times to mould and shape the life
of many a goodly man and woman in Islam.
This work is intended to present, what the
author believes to be, the contribution of the Qur'an to mysticism. It has a
value to all seekers of knowledge on the subject.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-150-6.
PM168. Ideology of the Future
By Dr. M. Rafi-ud-Din
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 303.
Here is a book that fulfils the crying need
of mankind at this hour. It is a book on the Science of Man. . . The
author's thesis that the urge for ideals is the ultimate and the real, the
ultimate and sole dynamic power of human action, seems to be a long overdue
discovery of the most important of all the laws of human nature. The author has
given what is no doubt the final refutation of the psychological theories of
Karl Marx, Freud, Adler and MacDougall and his theory of the process of history
is far clearer and far more convincing than the theories of Marx, Spengler and
Toynbee.
A remarkable feature of the book is its
integration and correlation of all the facts of knowledge belonging to diverse
fields of inquiry. The accomplishment of this important task, though rarely
possible in this age of specialisation, was indeed essential for a book on the
Science of Man... One is extremely refreshed to note as one reads the book that
the writer is able to quote a striking biological analogy in additional support
of each of his significant conclusions in the field of Psychology.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-151-4.
PM169. Philosophy of Faqirs
By Sir Amin Jung Bahadur
12
cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 70.
In this valuable book are discussed the two
schools of Tasawwuf: One which the author calls "Monistics" who
identifies God with Nature and says: "God is Nature and Nature is
God."
The other, which he calls
"Positive", differentiates God from Nature and says: "God is
above Nature which He created."
A philosophical work of high merit which
throws much light on various schools of thought.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-152-2.
PM170. Futuh al-Ghaib (Revelation of the Unseen)
By Hazrat Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani. Translated by
Aftab-ud-Din Ahmad
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 237.
Among the books associated with the name of
Hazrat Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, the Saint of Baghdad, the Futuh al-Ghaib
has acquired a fame that falls to the lot of very few works of this kind. The
book contains, besides a life-sketch, eighty of his very illuminating
discourses.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-153-0.
PM171. The Doctrine of the Sufis
By A.J. Arberry Tr.
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 189.
This is the English translation of Kitab
al-Ta'arruf li Madhhab Ahl al-Tasawwuf of Kalabadhi. This is an
authoritative work on Sufi doctrine, and many commentaries were written upon it
by a number of eminent writers. The esteem in which it was held by so
illustrious an author as Suhrawardi Maqtul is indicated by his much quoted
saying: "But for the Ta'arruf we should not have known
Sufism."
ISBN
NO. 969-432-154-9.
PM172. The Pantheistic Monism of Ibn
al-‘Arabi
By Dr. S.A.Q. Husaini,
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 266.
It is based on the Futuhat, the Fusus,
the booklets of the Shaikh published by Prof. Nyberg and Prof. Asin and many
other works which have been mentioned in the footnotes of the book. In the
course of writing this book the learned author has paid special attention to
the Fusus and the poetry of Ibn al-`Arabi which contain the essence of
the Shaikh's philosophy.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-155-7.
PM173. Ibn Khaldun’s Science of Human
Culture
By Fuad Baali, Tr.
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 188.
This is an English translation of Heinrich
Simon's German book: Ibn Khaldun's Wissenschaft von der Menschlichen Culture
(Leipzig, 1959), with a view to making Ibn Khaldun's ideas and contributions
more accessible.
The German scholar's chief purpose in
writing the book is to establish the connection of Ibn Khaldun's work with the
philosophical tradition. He shows that Ibn Khaldun's Science of Human Culture
is something essentially new and that Ibn Khaldun was the first to attempt to
formulate social laws. Apart from the connections with philosophical tradition
and with the situation of Ibn Khaldun which will become apparent in the book,
the book also considers whether such a view is compatible with the basic
religious attitude toward history and whether Ibn Khaldun's view of history is
at all Islamic.
This book breaks new grounds and will be a
welcome addition to literature on Ibn Khaldun and his work.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-159-X.
PM174. Studies in Muslim Philosophy
Foreword by Prof. M.M. Sharif
By M. Saeed Shaikh
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 260.
Nearly one-third of the book gives an
account of the four principal philosophical movements of the early medieval
period - Mu'tazilism, Ash'arism, Sufism and the Ikhwan al-Safa. The rest of it
deals with the group of thinkers who were known during the same period as the
"Philosophers," i.e. thinkers under the influence of Greek
philosophy.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-156-5.
PM175. Music
By Sufi Inayat Khan
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 105.
Inayat Khan never saw music as sound alone,
but as a manifestation of the spiritual essence of Reality. He was, besides
being a musician, a practising Sufi. This book on Music brings the essence of
the esoteric teachings on sound and rhythm.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-157-3.
PM176. The Mystical Philosophy of
Muhid Din Ibn ‘Arabi
By A. E. Affifi
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Page 229.
This book is a study of the whole of
Ibn `Arabi's mystical philosophy, his ontology, doctrine of the Logos,
epistemology, mysticism, religion, ethics, eschatology, and aesthetics. It
claims to be the first comprehensive account of its kind.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-158-1.
PM177. The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd-ud-Din Mahmud Shabistari
By F. Leaderer, Tr.
14
cm. x 21.5 cm.--- Pages 82.
The history of mysticism contains
many impassioned love songs to the Absolute, but in Sufi poetry there is a
peculiar richness, a colour which fascinates and charms so many of us.
Shabistari composed his Gulshan-i-Raz, of which this is the translation,
in answer to a series of questions on mystical doctrine set to him by an
enquirer from Khurasan.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-161-1.
PM178. Muslim Thought and Its Source
By Syed Muzaffar-ud-Din Nadvi,
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.--- Pages 168.
The bulk of European Orientalists hold that
Muslim philosophy is entirely based on, and borrowed from, Hellenic culture.
The author offers strong grounds in support of their Islamic origin.
ISBN
NO. 969-432-160-3.
ILJ208. The
Muslim Conduct of State
By Dr. M. Hamidullah
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 395.
Islam and Muslim jurists could
never be unmindful to public and private internatinal relations with States and
races. With the march of time, an exhaustive code of conduct of Muslim States
was eventually developed. The author, after a laborious research of several
years in the various libraries of East and West, compiled the present book. It
is a treatise on Muslim public international law consisting of the laws of
peace, war and neutrality, together with precedents from orthodox practice, and
preceded by an historical and general introduction. Sixth revised edition.
ISBN NO. 969-432-191-3.
ILJ209. The
First-Written Constitution in the World
By Dr. M. Hamidullah
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.---Pages 75.
It is a proud heritage of the
Muslims that the first-written constitution of a State promulgated in the world
by a head of a State originated from no less a personality than the Holy
Prophet of Islam himself.
The learned scholar presents
in this booklet the Arabic text and English translation of the deed drawn by
the Holy Prophet in the first year of the Hijra containing detailed
discussion of the prerogatives and obligations of the ruler as well as of other
immediate requirements (including a sort of social insurance for the needy).
Includes also a scholarly Introduction, an exhaustive Bibliography and a
careful Index.
ISBN NO. 969-432-192-1.
IQ218. The New Rose Garden of Mystery and the
Book of Slaves
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 82.
Gulshan-i-Raz-i-Jadid was composed by Iqbal in
response to Mahmud Shabistari's Gulshan-i-Raz which was composed in
reply to a series of fifteen questions on mystical doctrine pronounced by an
enquirer from Khurasan, named Amir Hussaini. Iqbal's poem has nine questions;
he has left some of the questions contained in Shabistari's poem and has, in
some cases, included two questions in one.
Bandagi Namah, unlike Gulshan-i-Raz-i-Jadid,
is translated in blank verse, and describes the arts, music and painting, and
religion of slave nations, and the architecture of free nations. Iqbal in this
poem rises to the heights of his poetic genius.
ISBN NO. 969-432-201-4.
IQ226. Glimpses
of Iqbal’s Mind and Thought
By Dr. H. H. Bilgrami
12 cm. x 17.5 cm. ---Pages
118.
The book presents certain
fundamental principles, which in the opinion of the learned author, determined
Iqbal's approach to the various problems of our life. He has endeavoured to
show the path he (Iqbal) would like us to follow in order to achieve that
complete harmony of body, mind and soul where the realities of our present life
are not left behind but are made use of inquest of the Ideal.
ISBN NO. 969-432-209-X.
IQ228.
Metaphysics of Iqbal
By Dr. Ishrat Hasan Enver. Foreword by Dr.
Zafar-ul-Hasan
14 cm. x 21.5 cm.---Pages 121.
The treatise is a genuine
contribution to the understanding of Iqbal and is strongly recommended to those
who would go deep down to the bottom of his thought. The author presents the
metaphysical part of his philosophy as Iqbal himself propounded it or as can be
deduced from his criticism of other theories.
ISBN NO. 969-432-211-1.
LLE233. The
Bustan of Sa‘di
By A. M. Edwardes, Tr.
12 cm. x 17.5 cm.---Pages 156.
Here is a comprehensive
translation of this important classical work, i.e., the Bustan. It will
familiarise the readers with the entertaining anecdotes and devotional wisdom
which the Sage of Shiraz embodied in it.
ISBN NO. 969-432-216-2.