Fons Vitae Book Catalog

suf i sm art sym bol i sm
Me and Rumi
The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi
Translated, Introduced and Annotated by William C. Chittick Preface by Annemarie Schimmel William Chittick is a Professor of Religious Studies at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Su Path of Love:The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi and nine other books, including The Su Path of Knowledge, Ibn Arabis Metaphysics of Imagination and The Self Disclosure of God. The astounding biography of the man who transformed Rumi from a learned religious teacher into the worlds greatest poet of mystical love. Imagine that you could go somewhere each morning, say to a corner of the sugar merchants caravanserai, and hear Shams Tabriz talk about the veiling of the heart, the nature of exertion, or how to move beyond the agitated state of question and answer.This book gives entry into that astonishing presence. Go there for an hour a day, however long it takes.Then read Rumis poetry and feel their opening Friendship in you. Bless William Chittick. Coleman Barks William Chitticks masterful translation of the Maqalat of Shamsi Tabrizi moves Rumis beloved mentor from the shadows into the light, and restores Shams to the central position of prominence that he so richly deserves.This work immediately joins the indispensable short list of scholarly works on Rumi and his community. Highly recommended for all scholars and students of Susm, Islamic Philosophy, Persian literature, and of course for all the legions of Rumi fans. Annemarie Schimmel
Religions/Islam/Susm/Eastern Philosophy June 2004 1-887752-52-8 530 pages 6.00 x 9.00 in. $27.95 PB NEW
Guardians of the Sun-Door

The Late Iconographic Essays and Drawings of A.K. Coomaraswamy
by A.K. Coomaraswamy Coomaraswamys nal un-published essays including: The Iconography of Sagittarius, Philos Doctrine of the Cherubim, Concerning Sphinxes, and The Concept of Ether in Greek and Indian Cosmology complimented by the authors own drawings and other illustrations from his personal archives. Coomaraswamys essays [give] us a view of his scholarship and brilliant insight.Joseph Campbell Dont make any mistake about Coomaraswamy. He is an eminently practical man. I love him. Wendell Berry Thomas Merton felt he owed a great deal to Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. His writing inuenced Merton from his student days at Columbia University where he said The Transformation of Nature in Art was decisive in his conversion, his road to the monastery and the contemplative life, up until his nal years... Director and Archivist Thomas Merton Center, Paul Pearson I believe that the only really valid thing that can be accomplished in the direction of world peace and unity at the moment is the preparation of the way by the formation of men whoare able to unite in themselves and experience in their own lives all that is best and most true in the various great spiritual traditions. Such men can become as it were sacraments or signs of peace, at leastI will meditate long and happily in silence upon these things, and enrich my life with the symbols, the mysteries and sacraments in which he has shown us so many manifestations of God in His world. It is not that I want to write about AKC but rather that I want to enter contemplatively into the world of thought whichis for all of usbut which nevertheless had to be opened up to us by him. from a letter to AKCs wife, Dona Luisa Thomas Merton He [AKC] has written truth with such wisdom and understandinghe illuminates the soul {baja} of the subject he treats and shares with the reader the treasure before him. Eric Gill Coomaraswamys works possess a timeliness which ows from their being rooted in the eternal presentIt is with joy that we can welcome Fons Vitaes publication of the nal essays and drawings of this formidable metaphysician and peerless interpreter of art and symbolism which contain the saving truths embedded in the millennial traditions of mankind.Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Art History, Symbolism / Spirituality 1-887752-59-5 175 pages 6.00 x 9.00 in. $24.95 PB NEW
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suf i sm new & f orth com i ng
Letters of a Su Master
by The Shaykh ad-Darqawi/translated by Titus Burckhardt Spiritual techniques taken from letters of the founder of one of the major branches of the North African Shadhiliyyah Su order. Almost all these letters are concerned with the method and the operative aspects of the Way and are considered among the most direct instructions given on Suc method to be found in all Su literature. The sickness that is afflicting your heart is one of those things which strike men whom God loves, for of all men the most sorely tried are the Prophets, after them the saints, then those who resemble them, closely or remotely. So do not be downcast, since this happens most often to men full of sincerity and love, to cause them to go forward towards their Lord. By this suffering their hearts are puried and transformed into pure substance. Lacking such encounters with reality, nobody would reach the knowledge of God, far from it, for if there were no arenas for souls, the runners would not be able to run their course as it is said in Ibn Ata-Allahs Hikam.
Religion/Islam/Susm 1-887752-16-1 78 pages 6.00 x 8.88 in. $11.95 PB
Autobiography of a Moroccan Su: Ahmad Ibn Ajiba [1747-1809]

Translated from Arabic by Jean-Louis Michon/Translated from French by David Streight Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Su liniage, wrote his fahrasa, or autobiography, not for the pleasure of talking about himself but to celebrate Gods kindness. It details his travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge and his entrance on a Su path. It deals with everything from the little details of everyday life to the mystical states experienced on the path to God. It will be welcomed by everyone interested in the day-to-day workings of Islamic society, the interplay between exoteric and esoteric and the place of the Su path in the personal and social life of the community.
Religion/Islam/Susm 1-887752-20-X 193 pages 6.00 x 9.00 in. $19.95 PB
Stations of the Wayfarer

Manazil As-Sairin
By Abu Abdullah al Ansari al Harawi/Translated by Maryam al-Khalifa Sharief In the prologue to his most celebrated Su classic, Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Ansari (1006-1089 C.E./ 396-481 A.H.), of Herat in modern day Afghanistan, declares that he wrote this precious spiritual gem for the benet of a group of mendicant fuqara, readers and exiles, who were eager to acquaint themselves with the various Stations or Milestones that the [spiritual] wayfarer must traverse [in his journey] to the Real (al-Haqq). This is one spiritual manual that wishes not to digress from that declared aim. Stations, like the Su Aphorisms of Ibn Ata Allah, for instance, is one of the most widely read Su classics.What distinguishes the content of this particular treatise, in Ansaris own view, is that it sets out to be a clear exposition of the levels of spiritul attainment, highlighting the salient features thereof and mentioning how each already refers to a denitive level of perfection, while indicating at the same time the relative position that such a perfection occupies within the total hierarchy of the spiritual stations.
Fons Vitae Forthcoming
1-502-897-3641 and 1-502-893-7373
suf i sm new & f orth com i ng
Three Early Su Texts

A Treatise on the Heart/Stations of the Righteous/The Stumblings of Those Aspiring
by Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d.912) & Abu abd al-Rahman al-Sulami al-Naysaburi (d.1021) two of the most eminent gures of the Khorasanian tradition who represent some of the rare earliest formative and most concise examples of Su methodology to appear in translation.Translated by Nicholas Heer and Kenneth L. Honerkamp. What is the heart of which I hear only the name? asked the ninth-century Su Ali alIsfahni in a famous lament.The answer can only be found in these three texts, which give esh to the heart of authentic Susm. Carefully and lucidly translated by noted scholars of Islam, these works by the seminal Su thinkers al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi and al-Sulami provide crucial insights into the psychology and discipline of the Su way and are important correctives to misinformed notions of Islamic mysticism, whether by anti-Su fundamentalists or New Age idealists.These long awaited translations are a must for the library of every serious student of Susm and provide excellent texts for use in the university classroom. -Vincent J. Cornell, Ph. D., Professor of History and Director, King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Arkansas
Religion, Islam/Susm 1-887752-51-X 192 pages 6.75 x 9.75 in. $16.95 PB Pages of Arabic manuscript included
The Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari Series

One of the greatest spiritual Masters of the thirteenth century (d. 1309), this Su imam was both a Muhaddith and a Maliki jurist whose works became basic training manuals for aspirants across North Africa. He was a student of al-Mursi and was the second to succeed Imam Abul-Hasan, the founder of the Shadhili Order which continues to this day.
The Key to Salvation Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari

Translated by Mary Ann Koury Danner Considered to be one of his most important works because it sets out the principles behind Su practices, shedding light on the sacred invocations, and the spiritual retreat. It offers a glimpse into the Su world of the 7th Islamic century and allows us to see almost at rst hand how the novice was guided by the Su shaykh.
The Islamic Texts Society (1996) 0-946621-27-6 Paperback Index Bibliography 270 pp $34.99
The Subtle Blessings in the Saintly Lives of Abul-Abbas al-Mursi and His Master Abul-Hasan The Founders of the Shadhili Order
Kitab al-Lataif manaqib Abil-Abbas alMursi was shaykhihi Abi L-Hasan Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari (d. 1309 CE) Translated by Nancy Roberts Filled with anecdotes illustrating these shaykhs spiritual gifts and insights, this volume conveys to readers not only the beauty and inspiration of these exemplary lives and utter devotion to God, but helps readers themselves enter into this same life of devotion and to experience its inimitable blessings. 1-887752-61-7 Forthcoming Fons Vitae
The Book of Illumination Kitab al-Tanwir Isqat al-Tadbir, including Sign of Success on the Spiritula Path (Unwan al-Tawq Adab al Tariq)
Translated from the Arabic by Scott Kugle (Swarthmore College) This Book of Illumination urges readers to simplify their reliance on material means and question the obsession with possessing and craving. It argues for a spirituality of living in the world without relying on the world.The text weaves together Quranic interpretation and explanation of rare teachings from the Prophet Muhammads traditions with the Su Masters own poetry, parables, and stories of past Shadhili masters.
1-887752-62-5 Forthcoming Fall 2004
The Pure Goal Concerning Knowledge Of The Unique Name Al-Qasd al-mujarrad marifat al-Ism al-Mufrad
Translated by Vincent Cornell
1-887752-63-3 Forthcoming
rum i & suf i sm
Rumi
The Hidden Treasure
by Shems Friedlander This groundbreaking classic from the author of The Whirling Dervishes includes previously unpublished material on Rumis sacred music and the symbolism of the dress and movement of the dance performed in the semahane the Hall of Celestial Sounds while elucidating what Rumi means by Feel joy in the heart at the coming of sorrow. Come back, come back, even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, ours is not a house of despair, ours is a house of hope. Rumi A succint and powerful biography of Rumi is included. As Friedlander presents the Roots of His Thought, the story of Rumis life unfolds in an entirely fresh and accessible manner, sprinkled with the masters poetic insights.
Religion / Islam/Susm/Mysticism/Rumi 1-887752-39-0 104 pages 5.00 x 8.50 in. $10.95 PB With stunning photography
Also available on video: Rumi: The Wings of Love, 34 minutes for $24.95. Produced by Shems Friedlander. Come to Life Traditional Su Retreat
Reading Rumis Life

Wondrous narratives, Su teachings and saintly lives
Omid Sa, a scholar of Susm at Colgate, presents a persuasive case that the way Rumis community learned about him was not only through reading his exalted poetry, but also by telling and retelling wondrous accounts of the great saints life.These fantastic accounts (hagiography) are not entirely transparent, as they deploy many layers of technical terms and allusion to Su practices. Sa seeks to unlock these mysteries by identifying the background material, symbols, and images that Rumis own community was so intimately familiar with. In understanding that Su context, we are also better situated to internalize the beauty and subtleties of these profound teachings. The image of Rumi that emerges from these accounts is not one of an otherworldly mystic detached from life, but rather that of a warm and compassionate, even humorous teacher who is intimately connected to a wider community of faith.
Forthcoming, 1887752641
Turning Towards the Heart

Awakening to the Su Way: Forty Questions and Answers
by Shaykh al-Tariqat Hazrat Azad Rasool This new book is useful both as a university classroom text and as an intimate introduction to a present-day authentic Su master whose spiritual lineage is directly traced back along the great silsilahs (or chains) of saints belonging to ve prominent Su orders. In his introduction, Dr. Honerkamp makes accessible to the modern reader, wisdom which is a magnicent contribution by a great contemporary spiritual master. from Dr. Alan Godlas, Associate Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies, University of Georgia It also includes diagrams, or shajarahs, of the Naqshbandi, Shadhili, Chishti, Qadiri and Mujaddidi Orders as well as a chart listing the su masters of these brotherhoods with their dates and the places where they lived and taught going back to the seventh century.
Religion / Islam / Susm, Eastern Philosophy 1-887752-46-3 146 pages $15.95 PB Includes photography
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wor l d re l i g i on : i slam & suf i sm
Imam Abdullah Ibn Alawi al-Haddad (d. 1720) lived at Tarim in the Hadramaut Valley between Yemen and Oman, and is widely held to have been the spiritual renewer of the twelfth Muslim century. His writings include a volume of mystical poetry and several books, some of which are especially popular in Swahili, Indonesian and Malay translations.
Su Sage of Arabia
Imam al Haddad (d. 1720)
Over the centuries the Muslim community has produced scores of great scholars as well as great saints in every generation.To reach the very pinnacle of both exoteric and esoteric knowledge, however, has always been rare. Imam al-Haddad, independent scholar, Gnostic saint, Su guide, and promised Renewer of religion, was such a master. Mostafa Badawi
53pp, 1-887752-65-X Forthcoming Fall 2004
Gifts for the Seeker

by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad This volume answers many of the questions often asked by seekers of inward illumination. What are the real implications of the doctrine of divine unity? How can proper concentration be achieved during spiritual exercises? When should one avoid participating in Su gatherings? What is the relationship between the tongue, the mind, and the heart? How is one to understand visions received in sleep? The work goes on to explain a number of paradoxes of the Way, such as the reason why the saints usually refuse to deploy their miraculous powers, preferring to concentrate on self-scrutiny and the compassionate guidance of others. These points are illustrated with references to the famous mystical poems of Ibn al-Farid and Abu Madyan.
Religion / Islam/Susm 1-887752-57-9 75 pages $14.95 PB
The Book of Assistance

by Imam Abdallah al-Haddad There are many books in English which present Su doctrine, but few that can be used as practical travel guides along the Path. Originally written in Classical Arabic, this volume is today in widespread use among Su teachers in Arabia, Indonesia, and East Africa.
Religions / Spirituality 8 1-872038-01-8 152 pages 5.50 x 8.50 in. $14.95 PB
The Lives of Man

A Guide to the Human States: Before Life, In the World, and After Death
by Imam al Haddad Introduction by Abdal Hakim Murad A dramatic exposition of the classical Muslim division of human life into ve stages: before conception, life in the world, life in the grave, the Resurrection, and Heaven or Hell. Extensive Quranic and Hadith references explain the condition of the soul at each stage.
Religion / Islam/Susm 1-887752-14-5 97 pages 5.50 x 8.50 in. $11.95 PB
Key to the Garden

by H. A. Mushar al-Haddad A best-selling title in which the core Islamic concept of tawheed, or dinive unity, is explored.
216 pp., 1-929694-02-4, $12.95
Also available: Knowledge and Wisdom $8.95 Mutual Reminding and Good Manners $8.95
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Divine Governance of the Human Kingdom

Including two shorter texts, What the Seeker Needs and The One Alone as well as an epilogue on the relationship of master and Disciple
A powerful but little known work by Ibn Arabi, a twelfth-century Spanish mystic, considered by many to be the greatest master of Susm. Of this book, Ibn Arabi himself wrote:This little book contains vast knowledge of great benet to all. It is gathered from the gardens of Eden and from Divine Providence. Of the three mystical texts,al-tadbirat, is a fascinating treatise on the divine design and management of the world, and the central role the human model plays in the creative and governing process.
Religion / Islam/Susm 1-887752-05-6, 300 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $19.95, PB
Su Metaphysics and Quranic Prophets

Ibn Arabis Thought and Method in the Fusus al-Hikam
Ronald L Nettler The Fusus al-Hikam is acknowledged to be a summary statement of the Su metaphysics of the Greatest Master, Ibn Arabi (1165-1240AD). Ronald Nettler examines ten chapters from the Fusus which exemplify the ideas, method and perspective of the entire work.This volume serves not only as an explication of Ibn Arabis thought in the Fusus, but is also a great aid in the overall understanding of his thought. 160PP., 109382061, $34.99
Also Available:
Quest for the Red Sulphur the Life of Ibn Arabi Claude Addas, 0-946621-45-4, $35.99 Ibn Arabi: The Voyage of No Return Claude Addas, 0-946621-74-8, $22.99
The Reective Heart:

Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn Arabis Meccan Illuminations
James Morris For centuries Ibn Arabi has been known as the Greatest Master of Islamic spiritual teaching, but only recently have the treasures of his immense masterwork, the Meccan Illuminations, begun to be accessible to Western audiences.This introductory volume, intended for readers interested in the issues of practical spiritual life and realisation (without any specialist background), follows Ibn Arabis development of several key practical themes in his spiritual teaching presented in a way that is intended to recreate a sense of the gradually unfolding openings of his meanings and spiritual understanding in the course of that great work. 1887752676, Fons Vitae Forthcoming
The Tree of Being

An Ode to the Perfect Man
(Shajarat al-Kawn in Arabic) by Ibn Arabi (d.1240) translated by Tosun Bayrak Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) knew and inuenced the great men of his time, including Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Jalaluddin Rumi and Suhrawardi, and his inuence spread beyond the Islamic world to medieval Europe. Dante shows the inuence of Ibn Arabi in the Divine Comedy for example. Religion / Susm PB Fall 2004
Mystical Astrology According to Ibn Arabi

Twelve color plates of a 16th century Persian MSS as well as charts and diagrams enhance this volume
Translated by Titus Burckhardt A unique work, providing the underlying spiritual principles (from the point of view of one of the greatest Su masters who ever lived) lacking in most modern books of astrology. It will compliment and deepen anyones personal library or collection of works on astrology. Astrology, Susm /
New Age 1-887752-43-9, 64 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $11.95, PB
The Seal of the Saints Prophethood and Sainthood in the doctrine of Ibn Arabi
Michel Chodkiewicz;Translated by Liadain Sherrard Ibn Arabis hagiology denes the nature and function of sainthood, while also specifying the criteria for a typology of saints based on the notion of porphetic inheritance. This is by far the best available explanation of the central importance of sanctity for understanding both the practical and the theoretical teachings of Susm.William Chittick
0-946621-40-3 Paperback Index 192 pp. $34.99
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Knowledge For Encountering God:

Al-Suhrawardis Awarif al-Maarif
Translated by Qamar-Ul Huda A manual for daily study and practice by the the renowned thirteenth-century Su, Shaykh Abu Hafs al-Suhrawardi. Still popular and widely used in Middle Eastern and South Asian Susm.The use of hadith is a signicant element in the treatise, enabling readers to remember and re-enact the Prophets way so that they can move from merely imagining to actually embodying prophetic spirituality and maintaining his sacred presence at every moment.
1887752684 Fons Vitae Forthcoming
The Shape of Light

Hayakal AL-Nur Suhrawardi
by Suhrawardi, translation Tosun Bayrak. Preface drawn from the 12th-century saint and master Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.Ten pieces of calligraphy from the Grand Mosque (Ulu Cami) in Bursa,Turkey included. How do souls differ from one another in the eternal realm?This and other related matters are addressed in Suhrawardis treatise, which is arranged in seven categories called Forms of Light. Points considered in this volume include the limitations of mans senses and his true or theomorphic essence; the nature and levels of the human soul and the various realms or Centers (including Nur al Muhammadi or Absolute Mind as well as Ordinary Mind and Divine Mind); the nature of rmaments; and the meaning of pleasure and pain.
Religion / Islam/Susm 1-887752-15-3, 121 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $15.95, PB
Two Twentieth-Century Muslim Saints

Sayyida Fatima al-Yashrutiyya & Shaikh Ahmed al-Alawi
Translated from the Arabic by Leslie Cadavid The selections of this book are taken from two Muslim authors of the twentieth century; both represent Islam in its esoteric dimension of Susm, and both are regarded as saints by the Muslims of today.The Shaykh al-Alawi and Sayyida Fatima al-Yashrutiyya give a taste of the world of the Shadhili tariqas (paths), in different modes and at different levels, but with an underlying theme of concentration on the Oneness of God. Both saints witnessed their traditional world begin to fall apart. Both were beacons of light to those who clung to the Path in spite of the trials of the modern world; both proved that the Shadhili tariqa was still very much alive in the twentieth century.
1887752692 Fons Vitae Forthcoming
i s l a m i c s p i r i t ua l i t y - a b u h a m i d a l - g h a z a l i ( 1 0 5 8 - 1111 c e )
Al-Ghazali is generally acclaimed as the most inuential thinker of medieval Islam. His writings have been widely regarded as the greatest in spirituality, and have for centuries been the most read works after the Quran in the Muslim world.
Al-Ghazalis Path to Susm

his Deliverance from Error
by Al-Ghazali Preface:William Graham, Harvard University This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic, but also as one of the great spiritual autobiographies of one of the worlds greatest religious thinkers. It is the narrative of how one dedicated seeker having probed various systems of thought and differing paths of learning and enlightenment, discovered the peace of the inner life and discipline of mystical spiritualityin Ghazalis case, the spirituality of the Sus. This compact version of Deliverance from Error was requested by Professor William Graham for his Harvard classes and is hence most affordable for students without the appendices of the longer work.
World Religion /Islam/Susm/Philosophy 1-887752-30-7 115 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $12.95, PB
Deliverance from Error [Freedom and Fulllment]

Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal
Annotated and translated by R.J. McCarthy One of the most remarkable documents to have come down from classical Islamic civilization, this spiritual autobiography of the most inuential thinker of medieval Islam (1058-1111) describes his intellectual crisis, which led him to achieve direct knowledge of God in the form of the illuminative experience of the Sus.This volume also contains extensive translations from other key works of Ghazali. He articulated the Islam of the middle way, in balance between the extremes of the letter and the spirit. As such, his works have become a manifesto for modern Muslims struggling against extremist and hence heterodox readings of the faith. Among included texts, is the Denitive Criterion, followed by a tract on conforming the character to the divine, and on the Wonders of the Heart, an important Su work about the nature and function of the soul. _T. J.Winter, Professor of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University.
Religion / Islam/Susm/Philosophy 1-887752-27-7, 334 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $29.95, PB
Faith in Divine Unity & Trust in Divine Providence

Book XXXV of The Revival of the Religious Sciences
by Al-Ghazali Translated by David Burrell, Notre Dame University Spiritual guidance revealed through stories of Su masters instructing disciples on how to be aligned with Reality rather than the Illusory. In an axial volume from his celebrated compendium, the Ihya ulum al din, one of the greatest Su thinkers of all time shares his startling and original exploration of the meaning of trust in Divine Providence and recommends specic spiritual skills to help the seeker develop a state whereby he may rightly respond to events as they happen.This trust entails aligning oneself with things as they really are.
Religion / Islam/Susm 1-887752-35-8 175 pages 6.00 x 9.25 in. $18.95 PB
Other Al-Ghazali Works:

Invocations and Supplications Translated by K. Nakamura, 0-946621-14-4, 174 pp., $29.99 On Disciplining the Soul and On Breaking the Two Desires Translated by T. J.Winter, 0-94662163-2, 370pp., $35.99 Letter to a Disciple Translated by Tobias Mayer
96 pp., 0-946621-63-2, $24.99 Forthcoming
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The Marvels of the Heart Science of the Spirit

Book XXI of the Revival of Religious Science
Introduction by Timothy J.Winter For the Sus, the heart is more than just a piece of esh, it is the seat of the soul and holds the key to the intimate relationship which exists between soul and body. Ghazali, the best-known jurist, theologian, and mystic of medieval Islam, uses a series of traditional teaching stories to illustrate the theme of the heart as mirror: polishing it is remembrance of God; bad character traits, like smoke, cloud and rust it; light reecting from it is the quality of sainthood.
Religions / Islam/Susm/Philosophy 1-887752-31-5 150 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $24.95, PB Forthcoming
No god But God is my fortress

Ahmad Al-Ghazali on Dhikr
Translated by Joseph Lumbard Ahmad B. Muhammad Al-Ghazali, the brother of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, was an important link in the spiritual lineages of many Su orders and is considered by many to be the originator of the tradition of Persian Su poetry which came to full fruition with such luminaries as Rumi and Haz. Reading al-Ghazali, one is inclined to put aside the life of the mind in pursuit of the heart. He does not offer metaphysical lessons or doctrinal explanations. Rather, his every word is an exortation to seek God here and now: for life is short and the path is long.This, his most extensive Arabic treatise, is still used as a Su manual to this day.
Fons Vitae Forthcoming
On the Duties of Brotherhood Translated by Muhtar Holland, University of London

0-879510-83-8 $8.95
The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife Translated by T. J.Winter

378 pp., 0-946621-13-6, $35.95
Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God Translated by David Burrell and Nazih Daher
216 pp., 0-946621-31-4, $31.99
On the Manners Relating to Eating Translated by D. JohnsonDavies

0-946621-73-X, 96pp., $24.99
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Subtleties of the Ascension

Early Mystical sayings on Muhammads Heavenly Journey
Bi-lingual text As compiled by Abu Abd alRahman Sulami Translated and annotated by Frederick S. Colby Entitled Subtleties of the Ascension, Sulami exclusively dedicates this short Arabic work to recounting how the early Su mystics interpreted the Prophets journey. A recently discovered manuscript represents the most extensive collection of early Su ascension sayings known to date. In this fascinating and sightfull text, Sulami attributes fty-six teachings on a variety of ascension-related issues to early Su masters such as Hallaj, Junayd and Bistami.
Fons Vitae Forthcoming 164 pp
The Degrees of the Soul

Spiritual Stations on the Su Path
Shaykh Abd Al-Khaliq AlShabrawi;Translated from the Arabic by Mostafa al-Badawi Unlocks the secrets of the seven degrees through which the soul progresses as it travels the Su Path, special Su practices, litanies and attitudes of mind are recommended. Both practical and profound, this book offers a concise manual of Su teaching on spiritual liberation. The author, Shaykh Abd al-Khaliq al-Shabrawi (1887-1947), a professor at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, was best known as a realized master of the great Khalwati Order of Sus. He was also initiated into the Shadhili and Naqshbandi Orders.
1872038131 Index 76 pp. $9.95
Purication of the Heart

by Hamza Yusuf This present text is based on the poem known as Matharat alQulub, which offers a means by which spiritual purication can be achieved.Written by a great scholar, Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud, the spiritual diseases of the heart addressed in this volume include: miserliness, wantonness, hatred, iniquity, envy, ostentation, vanity, fraud, and more. Imam Mawlud directs his attention to each of these, discusses their causes, offers cures, and gives important commentary that is relevant to our day and to people of a variety of religious experiences.
106 pp,1-929694-15-6, $16.95 NEW
The Secret of Secrets

An Interpretative Translation by Sheikh Tosun Bayrak of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilanis Masterwork,Sir al-Asrar
An explanation by one of the greatest Su masters (1077-1166 C.E.) of how the outward practices of Islam prayer, fasting, almsgiving and pilgrimage contain a wealth of inner dimensions. He was the son of the great saint Fatima bint Abdullah al Sawmai who lived near the Caspian Sea. A longstanding bestseller.
09466212, 172 pp., $24.99
The Way of Abu Madyan

Translated by Vincent Cornell This is the rst English translation of works attributed to Abu Madyan, a seminal gure of Susm in Muslim Spain and North Africa. Arabic-English parallel text. Included are doctrinal treatises, aphorisms, and poetical works in the ode, or qasida, style providing a unique opportunity to experience a variety of the most important genres of religious writing from the 12th century C.E.
0946621357, 190 pp., $42.99
The Conference of the Birds

By Farid Ud-din Attar Translated by C.S. Nott Considered to be the nest and most delightful of all the many translations, this masterpiece of 12th century Persian literature is a timeless allegory about the excuses we give for not taking up the Quest for God. Attars successor, Jalalludin Rumi, found profound inspiration in the words of his elder, and like him remains one of the great lights in Su literature and the spiritual writings of humanity.
160 pp., 1-8879708-13-2, $12.00
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Early Su Women
Dhikr an-Niswa al-Mutaabbidat as-Suyyat
by A.R. As-Sulami, (d.1021) Bilingual edition translated by Rkia Cornell An addition to the growing body of literature examining the historical presence of women in Islam, this is the earliest known work in Islam devoted entirely to womens spirituality.Written by the Persian Su asSulami , this long-lost work provides portraits of eighty Su women who lived in the central Islamic lands between the eighth and eleventh centuries C. E. As spiritual masters and exemplars of Islamic piety, they served as respected teachers and guides in the same way as did Muslim men, often surpassing men in their understanding of Su doctrine, the Quran and Islamic spirituality.Whether they were scholars, poets, founders of Su schools, or individual mystics and ascetics, they embodied a wisdom that could not be hidden.
Susm/Religion / Islam/Susm Womens Spirituality 1-887752-06-4, 334 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in., $24.95, PB Includes pages from origianl manuscript.
Mary the Blessed Virgin of Islam

by Professor Aliah Schleifer Introduction by T.J.Winter Why do Muslims revere the Virgin Mary? This book throws light on the reasons for the importance of Mary as a spiritual gure in Islam. It provides the background for an understanding of her importance to Muslim men and women, both as an individual and together with her son Jesus. It poses such questions as: Is Mary to be regarded not only as the highest woman in all creation, but is she also to be counted among the prophets who received revelation? These traditional scholarly discussions about Marys life and characteristics which took place over the centuries in regions stretching from Central Asia to Spain could explain why the early Su women of Islam must have used Mary as their model for devotion and piety.
Religion / Islam, Christianity,Womens Spirituality 1-887752-02-1, 160 pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in., $15.95, PB
Motherhood in Islam
by Professor Aliah Schleifer For this exceptional and thorough scholarly study on the status of women in Islam, Dr. Schleifer relies on the basic sources of Islam the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, and the commentaries of Al-Tabari, AlQurtubi, and Ibn Kathir, thus providing an overview of classical exegeses.
Religion / Islam,Womens Spirituality 1-887752-01-3, 105 pages, 5.25 x 8.5 in., $12.95, PB
Towards the Heart of Islam: A Womans Approach

Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch;Translated by Cathryn Goddard Professor Vitray-Meyerovitch was author of over forty books and the greatest French scholar and translator of Jalaluddin Rumis works.What led this brilliant multilingual twentieth-century French woman, a scholar trained in law and philosophy, to turn to Islam? This book reaches the core of all true religion, and the personal internal reection accompanying the spiritual quest.
Fons Vitae Forthcoming 1-887752-22-6 paper
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Islam in Tibet and Tibetan Caravans

Including Islam in the Tibetan Cultural Sphere and Buddhist and Islamic Viewpoints of Ultimate Reality
by Abdul Wahid Radhu, Jose I. Cabezon and William Stoddart Translated by Jane Casewit Preface by the Dalai Lama who commissined this publication On the signicant (but little recognized) presence of Islam in Tibet, this is the best book that has appeared. Huston Smith, Berkeley University A rst hand account of life within a totally sacred society prior to the Chinese invasion. This book is the most complete and denitive work on the subject of Islam in Tibet to date, of interest to both scholars and general readers interested in the Islamic community at large, and those interested in Buddhist and Muslim spirituality. Included in its entirety is the account, Tibetan Caravans, by Abdul Wahid Radhu, describing his familys centuries-old trading business between India, Central Asia and Tibet, focusing especially on the fascinating interplay between the traditional cultures of Islam and Buddhism.We see this through the lens of a man of great spiritual depth who had a direct knowledge of Susm and come to see where those participating in the spiritual life of two very different traditions recognize one another at a level behind external forms. The God of Abraham insisted that He,YAHWEH, was inconceivable by human minds.Therefore, the proper response of humans before this inconceivability is Islam, i.e. surrender in mind as well as body. Buddhism is likewise based on the transcendence of self-centeredness, on surrender of self-aggrandizing knowledge in the realization of selessness. Professor Robert F. Thurman, Director of Religion, Columbia University
Islam, Buddhism / Tibet 1-887752-03-X, 312 pp., 6.00 x 9.00 in., $24.95, PB, Illustrated with photographs of historical importance and a photo essay of todays 2 muslim communities.
The Ornaments of Lhasa

Islam in Tibet (video)
Footage and photographs taken of the Muslims in Lhasa in 1997 are richly complimented by a delightful interview with a Tibetan Muslim who describes the history and life of Islam in Tibet, the two Muslim communities living there today and their relationship and social occasions with the Buddhists.The viewer will be intrigued by quite charming descriptions of Tibetan Muslim society and family life, the homes, food and clothing, language, education, trade and traditional herbal medicine. It is a surprise to us all that Islam has been present for nearly 1,000 years in what we have considered to have always been a monolithically Buddhist culture. Useful for teachers concerned with geography, world religions and multicultural studies as well as for anyone interested in both Tibetan and/or Islamic culture.
Fons Vitae (1997) VHS Format (20 minutes) $24.95
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Road to Mecca
by Muhammad Asad [This] book is one which has burst with strange and compelling authority upon the small fraternity of Westerners who know Arabia a book trenchant with adventure magnicently described, and a commentary upon the inner meaning of Arab and Muslim life, helpful to all who would achieve a more accurate understanding of the Arabs and their lands. Christian Science Monitor Within the rst few paragraphs of this extraordinary and beautifully written autobiography, the reader recognizes he is immersed in a timeless spiritual classic.The grandson of a Central European Orthodox rabbi, Asad had drifted into a matter of fact rejection of all institutional religions. He yearned for a life without the carefully contained, articial defenses which security-minded people love to build up around them. He wondered if the European way of life, based on the betterment of economic and political conditions, was in its fundamentals, the only possible way. He had the courage to look elsewhere. Asad found his rst quiet gladness in Taoism where truths were as a window opening onto a long lost home far from all narrowness and self-created fears. Asad regretted this ivory tower could not be lived in. His fascinating travels took him to Jerusalem, Arabia, and India, and nally into service at the United Nations. In 1926, Asad embraced Islam. His account of his years in Arabia, his desert adventures, friendship with King Saud, and marriage there is truly gripping.
Religion / Islam/Spiritual Autobiography 1-887752-37-4, 375 pages, 5.25 x 8.50 in., $17.95, PB,With historical photographs.
Cairo
1001 Years of Islamic Art and Architecture
(video series in four parts) Text by Caroline Williams Narrated by Gray Henry Too often, the Islamic architecture of Cairo which embodies an unbroken tradition from the early days of Islam, is viewed merely in slide form.This video series takes the viewer into the environs and actual space and sound of this great heritage. Previewed at the annual MESA (Middle East Studies Assoc.) Convention in November 1999, this wonderful scholarly overview and experience of medieval Cairo is a must for any visitor to Cairo and all students of Islamic Culture. Part 1:The Grandeur of Cairo (16 minutes); Part 2:The Word, the Vine, and the Star: Spiritual Dimensions of Islamic Art in Cairo (20 minutes); Part 3: Survivors in Stone: 1001 Years of Islamic Architecture in Cairo (51 minutes); Part 4: Some Saints of Cairo and counsels of Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309). Caroline Williams has graduate degrees in Middle East History (Harvard) and Islamic Art and Architecture (American University in Cairo). She wrote the enduring classic Islamic Monuments in Cairo (AUC Press, 1993) 4th edition. Unlike Baghdad and Damascus, Cairo was spared the devastation of the Mongol invasions, and many of its ne medieval structures are still standing-mosques, madrasas, mausoleums, caravanserais, fortications, aqueducts, private houses and Quranic schools. It is an unequaled treasurehouse of Islamic architecture. - from Caroline Williams Islamic Monuments in Cairo
Also available in PAL format, 1 hr 50 mins, Fons Vitae 1-887752-23-4, $39.95
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Understanding Islam and the Muslims

The Muslim Family Islam and World Peace
Myths and misunderstandings continue to proliferate about Islam and its millions of followers worldwide.This newly-expanded version of Americas most popular short introduction to the key precepts of Islam offers succinct, and sometimes surprising, answers to frequent questions about the Muslim faith. Written by eminent scholars T.J.Winter, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University, and John A.Williams of the College of William and Marys Department of Religion, this new version of a classic work features 190 full-color photographs. This book seeks to replace inaccurate images of Islam with recognition of the multi-faceted character of this global religion and its widely diverse adherents. It cannot be reduced to stereotypes. Islam is not inherently violent, nor are Muslims intrinsically prone to violence. Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University A much welcome contribution an accurate and scholarly presentation of the Islamic faith. Having carefully reviewed the contents, I nd there is nothing to add.The Ministry of Islamic Endowments intends to make this reliable resource available on its website. Dr. Ali Juma, Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence, University of Al Azhar, Cairo; Director of the Azhar Mosque and Imam at the Sultan Hasan Mosque; advisor to the Minister of Islamic Endowments, Cairo
Religion, Islam / Social Studies 1-887752-47-1 96 pages $7.95 PB 190 full-color photographs, many courtesy of AramcoWorld
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The Name and the Named

Including Ghazalis The Noblest of Aims in the Explanation of Gods Fairest names
by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak alJerrahi al-Halveti Introduction by William Chittick Explains how to use the names for the transformation of the soul into its original and primordial nature. A contemporary presentation of the ninety-nine divine attributes or names of God according to the Islamic Su tradition, in which it is said, Qualify yourself with the qualities of God. In this volume,Tosun Bayrak, a sheikh of the Jerrahi order based in Istanbul, explains how to use these Names for the transformation of the soul to see that the human being is the microcosm of the macrocosm where Gods attributes are reected. How can one come to love God without knowing Him? The Sheikh answers that we do so through knowing His Divine Qualities in our own selves. To assume the angelic character which is innate but hidden in the human being, we have to choose from Divine Attributes as we can, and try to live our daily lives according to them.Then God willing, this effort will help our imitation become real.
World Religions / Islam/Susm 1-887752-29-3, 293 pages, 5.75 x 8.75 in., $15.95, PB, 10 Black & White Illustrations
Islam: A Pictorial Essay in Four Parts (video)

90 minutes, 0-946621-00-4, $24.95 Part I:The Doctrine Part II:The Life of the Prophet and the Faith Part III:The History and the Culture IV:The Arts and the Sciences This classic work is appropriate for use in secondary school and university level courses, and benecial for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the Muslim world, Islamic art and culture. Some of the most eminent scholars of contemporary Islam are responsible for the script including the late Dr. Abdul-Haleem Mahmoud, Rector of Al-Azhar University; Dr. Martin Lings; Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and the late Dr.Victor Danner, Arabist and Chairman of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.The text is illustrated with masterpieces in Islamic art and architecture, including illuminated Qurans, calligraphy, the great mosques and details from Persian,Turkish and Mughal manuscripts from the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Other photographs include important sites and subjects from all over the world, from the Philippines to Nigeria. The musical accompaniment was composed and performed especially for the video by Salman Shakur, the world famous Iraqi lute (oud) player.
The Life of the Prophet Muhammad

A Simplied Version of Martin Lings classic Muhammad: His Life Based on Earliest Sources
by Leila Azzam & Aisha Gouverneur In todays post-September 11 political climate, where fear of Muslims has understandably arisen, there is a real need for pertinent and accurate information to diffuse baseless anxiety. In all the major faiths, the life and example of the founder or prophet becomes the role model for the believer. It is always important to read what people of a faith say they believe (rather than what some outsider might write), because this is what actually drives their lives. Although written for a younger audience, this beautifully illustrated book along with its glossary and other useful appendices has been used as a classroom text for university world religion courses in the U.S., giving students a quick and accurate account of a key aspect of the Islamic faith.
Religion, Islam,World Religions / Juvenile Nonction 1-887752-53-6 135 pages 7.72 x 9.62 in. $17.95 PB Color illustrations
The Path of Muhammed

by Imam Birgivi, Forthcoming Translated by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak This long-awaited classic of Islamic spirituality fullls important needs in scholarship on the history of Susm and in the contemporary search for spiritual direction. Imam Birgivis manual of ethical conduct and spiritual practice details the Way of Muhammad (al-Tariqa alMuhammadiyya), a Su path created in late fteenth-century Morocco and disseminated as far as India and beyond through the mediation of Ottoman Su masters.This path seeks to instill the Sunna of Muhammad not only through imitation of the Prophets outward behavior, but more importantly, by teaching one to assimilate the Prophets inner spiritual consciousness. In this way, the seeker becomes empowered to nd his own solutions to the challenges of the times without merely repeating the answers of the past. In an era of rampant fundamentalism and simplistic and politicized responses to the worlds problems, this sixteenth-century work reminds us that the greater struggle lies within ourselves, and the life of the body cannot be improved without the transformation of the soul. Vincent Cornell, University of Arkansas
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The Holy Quran

Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation (2001) Hardcover, three colours (gold, black and blue), bound in high quality blue linen, blind and gold embossed cover. 848 pp Large Format: US$ 75.00 Small Format: US$ 50.00 Islamic authorities agree that this Arabic edition of the Holy Quran is of the highest quality in every respect.The text was prepared under the supervision of Al-Azhar University in Cairo.The Arabic type was handset at the beginning of this century and reproduces the text in an extraordinarily legible manner.The printing was carried out in leading houses of West Germany.
The Encyclopaedia of Hadith

Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation (2001) 19 Volumes and a CD-ROM. Hardcover, two colours (black and red) in A4 (21cm x 29.7cm), with gold and blind embossed cover. Hardback Price: $ 1250.00 Paperback Price (incl. CD-ROM): $250.00 Standalone Hadith Database CD-ROM Price: $80.00 This rst collection of hadith, consisting of 19 volumes, includes the Seven Great collections of Hadith in Arabic (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Daud, Jami al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasai, Sunan Ibn Maja and the Muwatta Malik). In addition the collection includes a reprint of the one-hundred-year old Sultaniyya edition of Sahih al-Bukhari, in three volumes published by Bulaq Press with its valuable marginal commentary. Also included within this rst collection is a twovolume analytical indices to all the printed texts, entitled Maknaz al-Mustarshidin which includes amongst its references (tying all the source books together) the relevant hadith number in al-Mizzis Tuhfat al-Ashraf. Accompanying the printed work the encyclopaedia includes a revolutionary CD-ROM database which contains all the hadith collections provided in printed form, which may be accessed by 21 different kinds of searches of varying degrees of complexity. $80.00 This publication is the fruit of 15 years of editing, revision and research by a team of religious scholars who have assembled the most comprehensive collection of hadith manuscripts from all over the world as well as all previously published editions. Painstakingly compared and revised with every page being approved by the Islamic Research Academy of al-Azhar, the Hadith Encyclopaedia revives the best traditions of Islamic scholarship. At the same time, one of the Foundations projects has been the development of the worlds nest Arabic typeface with the assistance of leading experts in Arabic calligraphy.This is based on the font used for the 1932 King Fuad Edition of the Quran, generally acclaimed as the summit of Arabic typography, in a yet more elaborated digital form.
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The Quran, A New Translation

Thomas Cleary, (Forthcoming May 2004) A new and complete translation of the Quran by one of the premier translators of religious texts in the world.
310 pp, 1-929694-44-X, $18.95
Al Shais Risala
Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence
Majid Khadduri Written in the second Islamic century by al-Imam al-Shai, the founder of one of the four Sunni schools of law, this important work gives the fundamental principles of Islamic jurisprudence and how its inuence continues to the present day.
Glossary/Bibliography 379 pp., 0-946621-15-2, ITS $46.95 Hardcover $58.99
Etiquette with the Quran

Imam al-Nawawi A classic work on the etiquette that a Muslim should have with regard to handling, teaching, studying, respecting, and reciting the Quran.The topics this volume raises include: ritual cleanliness, opportune times for recitation, and the etiquette between teachers and students.
230 pp, 1-929694-0-08, $14.95
Islam, A Sacred Law What Every Muslim Should Know About Shariah
Imam Faisal Rauf An introduction for the English reader to usul al-qh, the general principles of Islamic jurisprudence. The timing of this book could not be better. Just when American Muslims are seeking a fresh approach to sacred law, and just when so many non-Muslims lack any notion of Islams intense concern with justice, along comes Feisal Abdul Rauf to clear up a matter for all of us. Anyone interested in the governing principles of a sophisticated legal system, one that supports the protection of life, religion, wealth, offspring, sanity and reason should read this accessible and well-written book. Prof. Azziza Y. al-Hibri, Professor of Islamic Law, University of Richmond Its objective is twofold: one is to show the modern Muslim that the underlying dynamics of most of the issues thought to be new and contemporary have in fact been discussed and addressed by Islamic thinkers and jurists from the earliest times in Islamic history.The second objective is to help modern Muslims bring this understanding to bear upon their real life problems and concerns, so they can follow and examine legal arguments presented for their worthiness, and separate what is essential and central to their faith from that which is nonessential and peripheral.
ISBN 939660-70-9 Hardback $28.00
Islamic Law According to the Four Schools

al-Fiqh ala al-Madhahib alArbaah
Foreword by Frank Vogel, Harvard Islamic Law School Translated by Nancy Roberts Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Orthodox Schools is a translation of volume I of al-Fiqh `ala alMadhahib al-Arba`ah, by the Azhari scholar Sheikh cAbd al-Rahman al-Jaziri (1882-1941). Dealing with the forms of worship (ibadat), this work offers an in-depth discussion of ritual purity (taharah), ritual prayers (salat), including funeral prayers and the practice of visiting the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), fasting (siyam), spiritual retreats (itikaf), charity (zakt), the pilgrimage to Mecca (both al-hajj and al-cumrah), and the offering of animal sacrices. Unlike previous works on Islamic law, which offer a medieval perspective, Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Orthodox Schools is unique in providing the four legal views of ibadat, according to the interpretations of more recent traditionalists, trained at al-Azhar University. It is a valuable and detailed reference work for those interested in Islam, Islamic law, or comparative law and contains a glossary of Islamic terminology.This is a must for academic libraries as well as for private individuals who want to learn more about the performance of religious duties.
1800pp., Forthcoming
Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

Mohammad Hashim Kamali This book offers the only detailed presentation available in English of the theory of Muslim law (usul al-qh).
ITS 417 pp., 0-946621-24-1, $44.99 Index
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A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

An Encyclopedia of Humankinds Spiritual Truth
Introduction by Huston Smith Foreward by Marco Pallis Compiled by Whitall N. Perry Anyone who is interested, not just in reading maps, but in going somewhere with his or her life, will nd this the most comprehensive guide that has been compiled. Huston Smith, author of the best-seller The Worlds Religions This extraordinary compendium gives us access to what the greatest minds, from all time and the various faith and philosophical traditions, have had to say on literally every aspect of the spiritual life, point by point. More like a library than a single book, this volume, now in a third, paperback edition, takes readers on a journey from the creation of the cosmos and the individual soul to nal reabsorption in the Divine Source, presenting the traditional stages of the souls transformation.Whatever aspect is of immediate concern, be it faith, patience, suffering or mercy, the reader is treated to relevant passages as are found in Eckhart, Philo, Rumi, the Talmud, Shakespeare, Rama Krishna, Black Elk,The Psalms, the Tao Te Ching, and Milarepa, among countless others; he or she will encounter the heritage shared in common with all humanity, in that which is essentially timeless, enduring and pertinent to ones nal end. It is Wisdom which is mans priceless birthright, and that same Wisdom shines forth in the pages of this book. This is possibly the most useful volume available for those involved in interfaith dialogue or whose sermons, lectures and events require global referencing.
Comparative Religion/Philosophy/Multicultural Interfaith studies 1-887752-331 1144 pages 7.00 x 9.50 in. $39.95 PB
The Sacred Unconscious

by Huston Smith Professor Smith speaks of what unies all the worlds great faith traditions and states that the Healing of Mind, Body and Soul comes down to who we arethe recovery of the original divine station.Through humor and personal anecdotes-with radiance and a twinkle in his eye-Huston Smith shares with us his own life transforming experience with the sacred unconscious, where, he maintains, our imago Dei resides and is directly linked to God. Beyond his reassuring and compelling insights, what is most moving about this precious footage is Huston Smith himself-his humble, luminous, wise, exemplary state of Being. He is what he says. Huston Smith is internationally known and revered as the premier teacher of world religions and for his best-selling book The Worlds Religions. He was the focus of a ve-part PBS TV show with Bill Moyers, and has taught at Washington University, MIT, Syracuse and UC Berkeley.
50-minute video, 1-887752-44-7 World Religions/Philosophy $14.95
Beads of Faith
The Meaning and Use of Prayer Beads in the Worlds Religion
Gray Henry and Susannah Marriott Using beads in prayer is archetypal as it is common to all the great faiths from the oldest, Hinduism, to modern Christianity. Here, for the rst time, an accessible anthology introduces a mainstream readership to the rosary and prayer-bead traditions of the worlds great religions. Medieval manuscripts, icons, Persian miniatures, sculpture and temple carvings, as well as evocative contemporary photographs, are used to illuminate the beads in all their glory. Key rituals and practices are presented alongside each rosary, with quotes from great past and present religious gures.The book also contains simple meditation and mindfulness techniques for everyday life based on spiritual teachings. For readers of all faiths and none, who seek inner peace and an understanding of the Divine, this is the perfect book. Anna Amari, Carroll and Brown. Note: This book is also available in video format. See Beads of Faith The Universal use of the Rosary. p. 25 $24.95
120pp., colour illustrations on every page Hardback,1-903258-47-2 $29.95
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The Animals Lawsuit Against Humanity

A Tenth Century Iraqi Ecological Fable
Translated by Rabbi Anson Laytner Introduction by Seyyed Hossein Nasr How current this tenth-century tale is for today. It addresses environmental and animal rights issues with a suprising effectivity. A Muslim work translated by a rabbi into Hebrew for a 14th century Christian king, now translated by a rabbi into English, edited by a Christian and illustrated by a Muslim.This is a true Interfaith title. The ancient antecedents of this tale are thought to have originated in India, but the rst written version of the story was penned in Arabic by members of the Islamic Brethren of Purity or Ikhwan al-Safa, a Su order, in the environs of Basra, Iraq, sometime before the tenth century of the Common Era. In their version, the story was the twenty-fth of fty-one treatises, the Rasail comprising an encyclopedia, in which were described the mysteries and meaning of life. Much later, this one story,The Epistle of the Animals, was translated and adapted by Rabbi Kalonymus ben (son of) Kalonymus, known among Christians as Maestro Calo, at the request of his master, King Charles of Anjou (in France), in the year 1316.The story was popular in European Jewish communities into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Besides being published in Hebrew, it also was translated into Yiddish, German and Spanish.The text used was published in Jerusalem under the title Iggeret Baalei Hayyim (The Letter of the Animals) by Mosad HaRav Kook in 1949. Kalonymus lived primarily in Arles, in the Provence region of France. The region at that time, along with Spain and Italy, was highly cultured and more tolerant than other parts of Europe because of the inuence of and contact with the Islamic/Arab world through Muslim Spain. Rabbi Kalonymus, like many others, was busy translating into Hebrew Aristotle and many others important classical thinkers, whose works had been preserved in Arabic and transmitted by the Arabs to the West.
1-887752-70-6 Forthcoming.With Beautiful, illuminated illustrations. Spring 2005
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The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah

Introduced by Jacob Needleman Translated by Leo Schaya The original French edition, rst appeared in English as part of Jacob Needlemans Penguin Metaphysical library in 1971. The Kabbalah is considered to be the doctrinal essence of the Torah ... the repository in the heart of Judaism of the mysteries hidden since the beginning of time. This book lls an urgent needTo rediscover the deepest meaning of the Old Testament is something that could have a most tonic and enlightening effect on the whole of Christian thought today; no clearer interpreters are to be found than the masters of the Kabbalah. -Marco Pallis This book will be extremely useful to anyone who is, in the words of Maimonides, perplexed by the Bible in the sense of having exercised his best thinking about it and who now stands broken before its apparent contradictions and its overwhelming emotional authority...The Kabbalah, or esotericism, is the communication to man of what Schaya calls principial ideas, ideas that are to thought and actions what the sun is to its raysStanding between metaphysical ideas and the symbolic language of the Zohar and the Old Testament, he allows each side to penetrate the other. -Jacob Needleman
Religions / Judaism/Philosophy 1-887752-60-9 160 pages $18.95 PB Fons Vitae Quinta Essentia Series Includes charts and diagramatic illustrations NEW
Spain under the Crescent Moon

Angus Macnab This beautifully illustrated volume is composed of a series of historical sketches so irresistibly readable that they might have been lifted straight from the Arabian Nights-except that, unlike Scheherazade, Macnab quotes unimpugnable historical sources for every wonder he recounts.The book is highly relevant to the pressing contemporary problem of how to relate to the Islamic world.The history of Moorish Spain shows that the question is not a new one, and it seems beyond doubt that the solutions (because they came from a deeper level) reached during the many centuries of Christian-Muslim co-existence were more intelligent than the supercial and often ill-informed blundering so common in this area today. Macnab writes deftly on art and history, chivalry and religion, Christian and Muslim kings, and Christian and Muslim holy men. His narrative is an open window onto an age of faith.
1999 ISBN 1887752218 Paperback - $35.00 Copiously illustrated 189 pp.
Outline of Buddhism
William Stoddart In this book, the author surveys the vast and complex eld of Buddhist doctrine, cultural forms and schools, and presents with clarity and concision the essential features of the Buddhist religion, with useful illustrations.
120 pp 0-9629984-4-3 $10.95 (1997) Paperback Illustrated
Outline of Hinduism
William Stoddart A concise survey of the vast and complex eld of Hindu mythology, metaphysics and spirituality including diagrams and a section on modern sages and saints with photos of each.
0-9629984-1-9 Paperback 128 pp. $10.95
The Golden Goose King, A Tale Told by the Buddha

0964436205, beautiful color illustrations, $19.95 For children.
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the most important and most widely read spiritual writers of the twentieth century whose writing and personal journals are universally recognized as a seminal and continuing catalyst for inter-religious dialogue in the twenty-rst century. Ewert Cousins, distinguished editor of the World Spirituality Series published by the Paulist Press, has called Merton an axial gure.
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The Fons Vitae Project for the Study of World Religions through the lens of Thomas Mertons life and writing is a signicant publishing event in the inter-religious dialogue and exposure of the contemplative practices of the worlds major religions. Future volumes will include Merton and the Vedanta and the Native American Peoples.
Jonathan Montaldo, co-editor of this Fons Vitae series, is former Director of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University, Past-President of the International Thomas Merton Society, and editor of The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals and Dialogues with Silence:Thomas Mertons Prayers & Drawings)
Miracles:The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. In Merton and Judaism,Thomas Merton is presented as making a signicant opening to reverent appreciation of Judaism past and present as he aspires to be, or claims to be, a true Jew under my Catholic skin.
$25.95 1-887752-55-2 415 pp
Merton & Susm: The Untold Story A Complete Compendium

Introduction by William Chittick ...Actually the ground of everything is within me and it is God ... its within everybody too.Theres one ground for everybody, and this ground is the Divine Mercy.The people of the unveiling, that is to say the Sus, ask the Mercy of God to subsist in them ...The Mercy of God is not arranged ... in good and bad events but it is subsisting in me all of the time. from Thomas Mertons lectures on Susm to the novices at Gethsemani The groundreaking classic on the Trappist monks enthusiam for and participation in Islamic spirituality. Jonathan Montaldo, Director of the Merton Center and International Merton Society Of value not only for a better understanding of Merton himself but also for the creation of deeper modes of comprehension between the inward and contemplative dimensions of Islam and Christianity. from preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University
$25.95 1-887752-07-2 Includes photographic essays
and profound work introduces the West to Eastern Christian spirituality through the lens of Thomas Mertonto the Prayer of the Heartas practiced from the time of the Desert Fathers. Mertons spirituality would not be what it is without his devoted and careful study of Greek patristic thought and the Desert Fathers. from One Yet Two Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury Includes essays from major scholars of Eastern Christianity and Merton such as Bishop Kallistos Ware, Father Donald Allchin, James Forest, Dom. M. Basil Pennington among others This volume presents the riches of Christian contemplative methods and experience dating back to their original Christian source.
$25.95 1-887752-45-5 507 pp Fully Illustrated
Forthcoming
Merton & Taoism Merton & Buddhism Merton & Art

In 2004 Fons Vitae will take up publishing the Merton Annual.
Thomas Merton Audio-Visual Series

The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals Read by Jonathan Montaldo 12 cassettes, $59.95 NEW The Mystic Life Series Susm: Knowledge of God Susm: Desire for God True Freedom Thirst for God (Individual cassettes, $9.95 each,4 tape set, $29.95) The Almost Final Days of Thomas Merton, $25.00 video Merton A Film Biography, $30.00 video Gethsemani: Time in A Garden, (23 minutes), $15.00 video Gethsemani, (60 minutes), $25.00 video How Do We Enter the Heart and What Do We Find After Entering?, $25.00 video
Merton & Judaism: Holiness in Words

Merton and Judaism is an important and admirable addition to the Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series.As an editor and publisher of Thomas Mertons and Abraham Joshua Heschels writings on Judaism, I can warmly recommend this timely and informative anthology. Robert Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Thomas Merton like Abraham Heschel had that rare ability to pass over to another religious tradition and appreciate it from within, which is why this volume on Merton and Judaism is so terribly important to Christians and Jews, and indeed to anyone who wants to understand the vitality of authentic modern spirituality. Kenneth L. Woodward, has been a religion Editor of Newsweek for 39 years and author of The Book of
Merton & Hesychasm:The Prayer of the Heart & The Eastern Church
Thomas Merton discovered in the tradition of Hesychasm a form of prayer ideally suited to his monastic life and practice, noting in his personal journal,There are strong hesychast tendencies in me.This long awaited
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The Mystical Journey The Soul Jesus & Mary God:Trinity & Unity
4 Audio Cassettes In this series, recorded at the Open Center NYC, Ewert H. Cousins, Professor Emeritis at Fordham University, a major authority on Western and world spiritual traditions and author of, most recently, Christ of the 21st Century, and William C. Chittick, a leading scholar of Islamic mysticism with 25 books to his credit, including the recent The Heart of Islamic Mysticism and Me & Rumi, lead us in an exploration of the commonalties and differences found within the mystical paths of the worlds most widely practiced faiths. These tapes are lled with illuminating insights on such as Dante and Eckhart and one has the chance to hear William Chittick recite Rumi and Ibn Arabi in the original Persian and Arabic.
1-887752-71-4 Forthcoming Fons Vitae audio-cassette/120 minutes each
Discounts on advance orders.
The Sacred Word Withdrawal and Return

Written by Huston Smith This video looks at the subject of retreat in the worlds religions.The great Prophets withdrew and returned with a Sacred Word or Revelation from which a beautiful civilization arose. Prayer is a form of retreat and here we attend the central prayer of each great faith and hear its meaning in English. Other forms of withdrawal and return presented from each faith are fasting, pilgrimage and times of renewing illness.The lm concludes with examples of how different traditions conduct an inner retreat in todays world and with a selection of the sacred music or recitation of each glorifying God.
Video 90 mins. Fons Vitae Forthcoming 1-887752-72-2
Faith in the Family

Kentuckys Treasure of Diversity
The Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic Communities Visit family homes and the places of worship and education and hear from within how faiths are lived. 1.The concept of mankind made in the Image of God as understood by each faith. 2. Rites associated with birth (Baptism, etc.) 3.What is expected of a child on becoming twelve in these ve faiths. 4. Rites associated with marriage. 5.The Sabbath, or holy day, in the different faith Traditions. 6.Taking care of the elderly. 7. Grace said at different tables
Video 120 mins. 1-887752-73-0 Fons Vitae Forthcoming
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Beads of Faith
The Sacred Name and the Hearts Celestial Garden:The Universal use of the Rosary
The word bead itself has an interfaith origin. It comes from both the Sanskrit buddh, which refers to Self-Realizationthe Buddha is The Enlightened One, and also derives from the Saxon verb bidden, to pray. This video presentation rst seeks to answer such questions as: In the various world religions, what are the different forms the rosary has taken? What is actually said while using them and what do these spiritual practices sound like? What gives the repetition of a Divine Name or mantra the power to be efcacious and how does it activate the heart? How does the symbolism of the rose and the meaning of the Sacred, or rather Secret, Garden, or rosarium, relate to attaining ones own Kingdom of Heaven within? The viewer is then treated to stunning imagery in art and photography as this practice in the various faiths is chronologically presentedeach tradition made clearer through the wisdom found in the others. The Hindu approach to the use of prayer beads or mala is elucidated by three of the greatest spiritual masters of the VedantaSri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), Swami Ramdas (1884-1963), and Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950). Judaism focuses on the string or sutra, rather than the bead.The practice of the tephilim, or prayer straps, is both fascinating and inspiring.The sacred texts included with them are truly moving. For the different forms of Buddhism, Cambodian statuary and photography of Tibet help to enhance ones understanding of the State of Being, which is the ultimate goal of invoking upon beads. The methodologies of both the Latin Church and the Eastern Orthodox way are presented. An explanation of what the Catholic undertakes in reciting Hail Mary or meditating on the Mysteries is offered.There is footage of the monks on Mount Athos performing the Jesus Prayer, or Prayer of the Heart, which has inspired the American Centering Prayer movement. Muslim prayer beads or tasbih are discussed, as well as the particular use made of them in Susm, the mystical dimension of Islam. For the sake of further clarication, this process is compared with the Christian rite of Holy Communion in terms of the shared focus on death (of ones separative egotistic tendencies), resurrection, and Eternal Life, or Union with God. The video concludes with a demonstration by Brother Paul Quenon, a novice under Merton, of how to make a rosary from rose petals.
35 min. video, Fons Vitae $24.95 1-887752-32-3 (1999) Also available in PAL format
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Ren Gunon was the extraordinary French metaphysician of whom Jacob Needleman wrote in the Sword of Gnosis that no other modern writer has so effectively communicated the absoluteness of truth. As an expositor of pure metaphysics and its application to the science of symbols, Gunon is without peer. Regarded by leading scholars as the rst truly authentic interpreter of many Eastern doctrines in the West, Gunon never tired, in the face of the seemingly inexorable process of dissolution in the twentieth century, of pointing to the transcendent unity of all religious faiths and the abiding Truth that contains them all.
Fundamental Symbols:The Universal Language of Sacred Science

Ren Gunon In this work, probably the most signicant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Gunon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid and the Islamic. The Science of Letters; Symbolic Weapons;The Language of the Birds;The Bridge and the Rainbow are but a few of the 76 chapters. A striking aspect of the book is that it gives a new signicance to so many of the objects, natural and man-made, with which we are inescapably surrounded in our daily lives.
Quinta-Essentia 1-870196-11-2 paperback $27.50 33 diagrams 339 pp. 252x156mm
The Great Triad

The last work by Ren Gunon Centered on Taoism while rich in illuminating cross-references to other traditions, the ternary in questionHeaven, Earth and Manis to be an inescapable feature of all spirituality. Seldom have the multiple levels of signicance of a single symbol been so as to reveal the triad symbol possesses the possibility of functioning as an initiatory means of support for inner realisation
Religions, Metaphysics / Spirituality 1-870196-07-4 171 pages $17.95 PB
the sophia perennis collected works of ren gunon
East and West, $19.95 Initiation and Spiritual Realization, $20.95 Insights into Christian Esoterism, $18.95 Perspectives on Initiation, $21.95 Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power, $18.95 Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines, $21.95 Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, $19.95
The Multiple States of Being, $18.95 The Crisis of the Modern World, $18.95 The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times, $21.95 The Symbolism of the Cross, $19.95 King of the World, $18.95 Studies in Hinduism, $21.95 Theosophy, the History of a Pseudo-religion, $24.95
Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles, $18.95 The Esoterism of Dante, $15.95 Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism, $18.95 Metaphysical Principles of the Innitesimal Calculus, $19.95 Miscellanea, $20.95 The Spiritualist Fallacy, $24.95 Studies in Freemasonry and Compagnonage
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wor l d re l i g i on s art sym bol i sm buddh i sm
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1887-1947), described by Heinrich Zimmer as That noble scholar upon whose shoulder we are still standing, was one of the worlds greatest art historians and scholars of traditional iconography. He knew thirty-six languages and admitted he did actually think in both Eastern and Christian terms, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Pali and to some extent Persian and even Chinese.While serving as a curator to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the latter part of his life, he devoted his work to the explication of traditional metaphysics and symbolism. His writings of this period are lled with references to Plato, Plotinus, Clement, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, Shankara, Eckhart and the Rhinish and oriental mystics.
Guardians of the Sun Door: See page 1 for details. Living Thoughts of Gotama the Buddha
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy & I.B. Horner A second edition of one of the most signicant selections of texts taken from the Buddhas own statements (translated from Pali texts). Buddhist doctrines are explained in terms meaningful to Westerners. Includes selections such as: Causality,The Deathless and The Incomposite,Training of the Soul, and Relationship with Others.
Religion / Buddhism, Spirituality 1-887752-38-2 227 pages $19.95 PB Illustrated with photos of exquisite sculpture and painting
The Essential A. K. Coomaraswamy

Color illustrations, 311pp., 0941532461, $21.95
Elements of Buddhist Iconography

Illustrated Forthcoming
Reincarnation:Time and Eternity

Essays by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Forthcoming
ThySelf,The Logos
The Iconography of the Cherubim over 4,000 Years of Sacred Art
by Gray Henry This work eshes out with a wealth of illustrations from the art and architecture of the worlds great spiritual and mythological traditions the conclusions reached by A.K. Coomaraswamy and recorded in his nal essays, Guardians of the Sundoor. Included will be a section devoted to the symbol of the griffin, a form of cherub employed from Mesopotamia to Monticello. Essential for students of art history as this volume demonstrates how the most profound of doctrines have been tranmsitted and claried by formulae in art.
400 Illustrations Fons Vitae Forthcoming
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Dr. Martin Lings, retired Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts at the British Museum, was a student of C. S. Lewis at Oxford and later his great friend. He is one of the worlds greatest scholars on Islam, Susm and Symbolism and author of the acclaimed masterpiece Muhammed:His Life Based on the Earliest Sources and the upcoming Summits of Quranic Calligraphy and Illumination, among others found here and ahead on pp. 30-31.
A Return to the Spirit: Questions and Answers

Martin Lings A Return to the Spirit: Questions and Answers includes:What is the Spiritual Signicance of Tears and Laughter?; Do the Religions Contradict Each Other?;What is the Quranic Doctrine of the Afterlife and its Relation to Susm?;Why With All Thy Mind?
1-887752-74-9 Forthcoming 2005
Symbol and Archetype: A Study in the Meaning of Existence

Martin Lings Included are chapters on:The Symbolism of Taste-dhawq ;The Symbolism of Pairs;The Seven Deadly Sins in Light of the Symbolism of Numbers;The Symbolism of the Triad of Primary Colors;The Quranic Symbolism of Water;The Archetypes of Devotional Homage;The Symbolism of the Mosque and The Cathedral in the Light of the Stations of Wisdom.
Quinta-Essentia 1-870196-05-8 paperback New Expanded Edition 141 pp. $16.95
Su Poems, A Mediaeval Anthology

Martin Lings Bilingual including the poetry of Rabia and al Hallaj.
1-903682185 $24.99 NEW
The Secret of Shakespeare

His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art
Martin Lings Why does one literally experience a catharsis attending a Shakespeare play? Lings explains Shakespeare to have been an initiate of a spiritual order or brotherhood and was himself following the path of sanctication, beyond that of salvation. Each character of his later plays is intended to represent some aspect of our own fractured souls. Armed with Lingsexplications, described here play by play, the reader is then able to consciously experience the pangs of transformation and, at a plays end, realization of his or her center, this peace usually represented by the symbol of a marriage where elements at variance are united.This volume is crucial for understanding Shakespeares enduring and universal appeal.
Quinta Essentia 1-870196-14-7 hardback 224 pp. $24.95
What is Susm? Martin Lings Possibly the most profound and authoritative work on the subject.
First published in 1975 0-946621-4-1 paperback Indexes 133 pp. $19.95
A Su Saint in the Twentieth Century Shaikh Ahmad alAlawi: His Spiritual Heritage and Legacy Martin Lings
0-946621-50-0 Paperback Indexes 5 illustrations First published by Allen & Unwin (1961) 242 pp. $24.95
The Book of Certainty The Su Doctrine of Faith,Vision & Gnosis Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din
0-946621- 37-3 paperback First published in 1952, 89 pp. $16.99
Collected Poems Martin Lings

1-901383-03-2, 56 pp., $13.95
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An eminent Swiss metaphysician and scholar of oriental languages who worked with UNESCO in the preservation of Fez, Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) devoted his life to the timeless and universal wisdom present in Susm,Vedanta,Taoism, Platonism and the other great esoteric and sapiential traditions.Though an art historian like his great-uncle, the renowned Jacob Burckhardt, his main interest was the spiritual use and meaning to be found in Eastern and Western art and architecture, and the expression of the sacred lives of saints. No one since the legendary A. K. Coomaraswamy has been able to demonstrate how entire civilizations dene themselves through their art with the precision of Titus Burckhardt.This distillation of his lifes work is a precious memento. Huston Smith
Sacred Art in East and West

Its Principles and Methods
Titus Burckhardt A work of such profound importancedening the meaning and spiritual use of Sacred Art through its symbolic content and dependence on metaphysical principlescould only have come from a scholar of the calibre of Titus Burckhardt. Wide in scope, covering Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Taoist art, this workunlike other books in its eldcan help readers accomplish in themselves the very goals intended by the creation of sacred art (i.e. spiritual transguration). Beautiful color illustrations and line art enhance this extraordinary volume. Every sacred art is deeply rooted in the religion from which it originates.
Art History, Art & Spirituality, Symbolism 1-887752-41-2 217 pages $19.95 PB 50 Illustrations 25 color plates 25 black and white
Alchemy
Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Titus Burckhardt Spiritual attainment has frequently been described in the terminology of the alchemical tradition, whereby mans leaden dull nature is returned to its golden state. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution (this could be even a relationship), it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new form.This opens the possibility that the new entity could re-congeal in a higher and nobler form, clarifying what Rumi means by Feel joy in the heart at the coming of sorrow.
Spirituality, Religion, Alchemy, and Symbolism / New Age 1-887752-11-0 206 pages $14.95 PB Includes illustrations and charts Best Seller
The Essential Titus Burckhardt, $21.95, 352 pp, 0-941532-36-4, color plates and illustrations NEW Mystical Astrology, $11.95, 64 pp, 1-887752-43-9, 12 color and black and white illustrations. See p. 6. Moorish Culture in Spain, $35.00, 228 pp, 1-887752-28-5, 9 color and 81 black and white maps and illustrations Mirror of the Intellect, $19.95 HB, 269 pp, 094662-10-8 Essays on the Inner Signicance of Christian and Oriental Art Fez, City of Islam, $34.99, 176 pp, 09466217-9, 41 color and 17 black and white illustrations Letters of a Su Master, $11.95, 78 pp, 1-887752-16-1. See p. 2.
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The Sword of Gnosis

Jacob Needleman New edition of a classic from Penguins Metaphysical Library with a new introduction by Needleman. 1-887752-66-8, FONS VITAE
Forthcoming
Traditionalism
Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy
Kenneth Oldmeadow Includes brilliant expositions of metaphysics, symbolism and sacred art 224 pp, 9-559028-04-9, $37.50 hardback
On Awakening and Remembering

To Know Is To Be
Mark Perry Few writings in recent years have done as much to further my understanding of the ultimate nature of things. Huston Smith 1-887752-40-4 434 pages $21.95 PB
The Unanimous Tradition

Essays on the Essential Unity of All Religions
Edited by Ranjit Fernando The Sri Lanka Institute Of Traditional Studies A collection of essays by Joseph Epes Brown,Titus Burckhardt, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Gai Eaton, Isaline B. Horner,Toshiko Izutsu, Martin Lings, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Marco Pallis,Whitall N. Perry, Leo Schaya, Frithjof Shuon, Philip Sherrard,William Stoddart, Elemire Zolla. 241 pp, 9-55 9028-30-3, $29.95 hardback
The Sacred Origin and Nature of Sports and Culture

HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Includes an appendix on the ancient symbolism of the game of chess. 1-887752-13-7 139
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The Widening Breach

Evolutionism in the Mirror of Cosmology
Whithall Perry A penetrating and comprehensive analysis based on traditional metaphysics.
1-870196-13-9 8 monochrome plates; 2 line drawings 109 pp. $12.95
Science and the Myth of Progress

Essays by Wendell Berry,Titus Burckhardt, James Cutsinger,Willaim Dembski, Rene Guenon, S. H. Nasr, E. F. Schumacher, Frithjof Schuon, Huston Smith,Wolfgang Smith, among others. 0-941532-47-X 336 pp $19.95
The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology

Contemporary Science in Light of Tradition
Wolfgang Smith
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Beacon of Knowledge
Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Edited by Mohammad H. Faghfoory Dr. Nasrs profound impact on the international intellectual community expands far beyond the boundaries of the Muslim world. Also included are wonderful photos taken throughout his life. 1887752560
638 Pages $40.00
The Eleventh Hour

The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern World in Light of Tradition and Prophecy
Martin Lings
1-901383-01-6 Revised and expanded edition $13.95
Science and Civilization in Islam

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
0-946621-11-X HB, 388 pp. $29.95
Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions

Martin Lings
1-901383-02-4 Paperback 96pp. $13.95
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Islamic Art and Spirituality Seyyed Hossein Nasr

0-903880-35-0 hardback Index 214 pp $43.00 color illustrations
The Meccan Revelations Muhyidin Ibn al- Arabi Edited by Michael Chodkiewicz Translated by William C. Chittick and James W. Morris
Revelation of the Mystery Al Hujwiri Translated by R. A. Nicholson

1-879708-14-0, 446 pp., $18.00
Underneath Which Rivers Flow The Symbolism of the Islamic Garden Emma Clark
Fons Vitae $15.95 color illustrations 1-898465-06-1
$16.00 paperback 384 pages 1-879708-16-7
Medicine of the Prophet Ibn Qayyim alJawziyya;Translated by Penelope Johnstone, Oxford University
0-946621-19-5 paperback 318 pp, $40.99
The Su Doctrine in Tamil Literature By Dr. A.M. Mohamed Sahabdeen Introduction by Ninian Smart
$7.95 308 pages
The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction Robert Hillenbrand

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The Holy Sites of Jordan Edited by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed Biblical and Islamic sites; excellent text, exquisite color plates and maps
0-710306-37-7, 142 pp., $40.00
The Doors of the Kingdom Photography by Haajar Gouverneur Calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya Foreword by HRH Maha al Faisal
Aperature 0-89381-817-8 Hardcover Full Color Photography Throughout 96 pp./80 color images $29.95
Spiritual Alchemy: Master and Disciple, The Major Collection of the letters of Ibn Abbad of Ronda (1332-1392) Introduction and translation by Kenneth Honerkamp. The Prophets Isra and Miraj Dr. M. Alawi Maliki Shaykh al Islam at the Haram al Sharif in Mecca $6.95 Susm: The Mystical Doctrines and Methods of Islam William Stoddart Widely acclaimed for conciseness, clarity and accuracy.
0-913757-47-0, 91 pp., paperback $8.95
Also available The Tribes of Jordan, $8.00 Cultural Treasures of Jordan, $40.00 Old Houses of Jordan, $40.00 Mecca, From Before Genesis until Now Martin Lings
1-901383-07-5, 86 pages, $13.95 Forthcoming
Principles of Susm Al Qushayri Translated by Barbara Von Schlegell

0-933782-20-9, 366 pp., $19.95
The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage and the World of Islam A History from the earliest traditions until 1925 (1344 H) Sultan Ghalib al-Quaiti
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Tripura Rahasya The Secret of the Supreme Goddess Translated by Swami Sri Ramananda Saraswathi
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Lamp of Dual Knowledge & Cream of Liberation, Two Levels of Indian Wisdom
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Seeing God Everywhere, Essays on Nature and the Sacred

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The Golden Age of Zen John C. H Wu

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Indian Spirit Edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald

0-941532-28-3, 152 pp., $12.95
Every Branch in Me, Essays on the Meaning of Man Edited by Barry McDonald
0-941532-39-9, 368 pp., $19.95
Treasures of Buddhism Frithjof Schuon

0-941532-44-5, 210 pp., $12.00
Light on the Indian World, The Essential Writings of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)
0-941532-30-5, 240 pp., $17.95
Understanding Islam Frithjof Schuon

0-941532-24-0, 214 pp., $15.00
A Buddhist Spectrum Marco Pallis

0-941532-40-2, 240 pp., $19.95
Not of this World, A Treasury of Christian Mysticism Compiled and edited by James S. Cutsinger
0-941532-41-0, 296 pp., $19.95
The Mystics of Islam Reynold A. Nicholson

0-941532-48-8, 144 pp., $13.95
Naturalness, A Classic of Shin Buddhism Kenryo Kanamatsu

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In the Heart of the Desert, The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers John Chyrssavgis
0-941532-51-8, 184 pp., $17.95
The Art of Living, Essays on Christian and Oriental Art
Bugbear of Literacy
Reality Peter Kingsley Documents the distortion and loss of the original mystical tradition lying at the roots of Western Culture. His words will change the way you imagine your life. Thomas Moore
1-890350-095 $19.95 600 pp NEW
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E.W. Lane Arabic-English Lexicon CD-ROM

TRADIGITAL The Lanes Lexicon.This superlative masterpiece is now on CD-ROM (for PCs only). Access is by root followed by scrolling of a complete entry, with the option to print a desired portion. Also includes Preface by E.W. Lane and Memoir by Stanley Lane-Poole.
3-908153-55-7, $150.00
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suf i sm art sym bol i sm

Guardians of the Sun-Door

For more by A.K.Coomaraswamy, see p. 27. 1

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suf i sm new & f orth com i ng

Autobiography of a Moroccan Su: Ahmad Ibn Ajiba [1747-1809]

Stations of the Wayfarer

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suf i sm new & f orth com i ng

Three Early Su Texts

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The Key to Salvation Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari

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rum i & suf i sm

Reading Rumis Life

Turning Towards the Heart

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wor l d re l i g i on : i slam & suf i sm

Gifts for the Seeker

The Book of Assistance

The Lives of Man

Key to the Garden

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Divine Governance of the Human Kingdom

Su Metaphysics and Quranic Prophets

The Reective Heart:

The Tree of Being

Mystical Astrology According to Ibn Arabi

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Knowledge For Encountering God:

The Shape of Light

Two Twentieth-Century Muslim Saints

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Al-Ghazalis Path to Susm

Deliverance from Error [Freedom and Fulllment]

Faith in Divine Unity & Trust in Divine Providence

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The Marvels of the Heart Science of the Spirit

No god But God is my fortress

On the Duties of Brotherhood Translated by Muhtar Holland, University of London

The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife Translated by T. J.Winter

On the Manners Relating to Eating Translated by D. JohnsonDavies

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Subtleties of the Ascension

The Degrees of the Soul

Purication of the Heart

The Secret of Secrets

The Way of Abu Madyan

The Conference of the Birds

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Mary the Blessed Virgin of Islam

Towards the Heart of Islam: A Womans Approach

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Islam in Tibet and Tibetan Caravans

The Ornaments of Lhasa

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Understanding Islam and the Muslims

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