Introduction to Sufi Doctrine: Commemorative Edition

by Titus Burckhardt

Overview

Titus Burckhardt’s masterpiece, An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, is a distillation of the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a western audience in a highly intelligible form. It was Burckhardt's first-hand knowledge of Sufism that qualified him to undertake pioneering and authoritative translations of Sufi classics by renowned authors such as Ibn al-Arabi, Abd al-Karim al-Jili, and Mulay al-Arabi ad-Darqawi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933316970
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	04/02/2008
Series:	The Spiritual Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	557 KB

About the Author

Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) was a leading member of the “traditionalist” or “perennialist” school of comparative religious thought, well-known for its espousal of the “transcendent unity of religions.” Burckhardt was also an expert on Islam, Islamic arts and crafts, and its spiritual dimension, Sufism.