TY - BOOK AU - Nasr,Seyyed Hossein TI - Sufi essays SN - 1871031419 AV - BP 189 .N38 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Chicago PB - ABC International Group KW - Sufism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Sufism and the perennity of the mystical quest -- Sufism and the integration of man -- Revelation, intellect and reason in the Quran -- The Sufi master as exemplified in Persian Sufi literature -- The spiritual states in Sufism -- Man in the universe: permanence amidst apparent change -- Seventh-century Sufism and the School of Ibn ʻArabî -- Shi'ism and Sufism: their relationship in essence and in history -- Islam and the encounter of religions -- The ecological problem in the light of Sufism: the conquest of nature and the teachings of eastern science -- What does Islam have to offer to the modern world? -- From poem to narrative in Sufism ER -