The Secret Garden
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Asadullah Yate
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The Secret Garden of Mahmud Shabistari contains all the principles of the science of
Thus, instead of the ‘mystic’ statements of a ‘Sufi Doctor’, we have Shaykh Mahmud Shabistari’s lucid exposition of the deen of Islam. He demonstrates in his analysis of the lower self how a man or woman can gain access to his or her reality: the step by step description of the method of purification leads to spirituality and light which issues from the normal actions of everyday life, in other
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About the author
Mahmud Shabistari: Shaykh Mahmud Shabistari rahimahullah (1288-1340 CE) was a Persian Sufi poet and scholar who lived and worked in Tabriz, the renowned cultural center of northwestern Iran during the Ilkhanid period. He is best known for his masterwork Gulshan-i-Raz (The Secret Garden), a celebrated Persian Sufi poem composed in the masnavi form. Written in response to a series of questions posed by a fellow Sufi from Khurasan, the poem addresses the deepest questions of mystical knowledge, divine love, the nature of the soul, and the spiritual path. Compact yet profound, Gulshan-i-Raz became one of the most widely read, memorized, and commented-upon texts in the Persian Sufi literary tradition, attracting major commentaries across the centuries. Shabistari lived during a period when Tabriz served as a flourishing hub of Islamic scholarship, culture, and Sufi intellectual life.
About the translator
Asadullah Yate: Asadullah Yate is a British scholar and translator whose work has made several classical Islamic legal and devotional texts accessible to English readers. He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1987, writing on Ibn Rushd (Averroes) as a jurist, and pursued traditional study within the school of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. He translates from Arabic, Persian, German, and French, and has collaborated on translations from Turkish. Much of his output centers on the Maliki tradition and the legacy of the school of Madina. His translations include al-Mawardi's al-Aḥkam al-Sulṭaniyya (The Laws of Islamic Governance), published by Ta-Ha Publishers in 1996, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi's al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyya (The Judgments of Fiqh), and Ibn ʿAshir's al-Murshid al-Muʿin, a foundational primer on the basics of the religion. He also rendered the Persian Sufi classic The Secret Garden (Gulshan-i Raz) of Mahmud Shabistari into English. Among his own writings are Islam in the School of Madina and Fair Trading, which treat Maliki jurisprudence and lawful commerce. He teaches Arabic and fiqh at the Weimar Institute in Germany, has served as imam and khatib at the mosque in Stralsund, and is a founding fellow of the Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies. His translations are valued for their fidelity to the source texts and their readable English.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781908892195
Publisher
Diwan Press
Author
Mahmud Shabistari
Pages
94
Translator
Asadullah Yate
Year Published
2013
Size
W- | H- | D-
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