Pathways to an inner Islam : Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon

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Label

Pathways to an inner Islam : Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon

Title remainder

Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Laude

Creator

• Laude, Patrick, 1958-

Subject

• France
• Frankreich
• Islam
• Islam -- Study and teaching
• Islam -- Study and teaching -- France
• Mysticism -- Islam
• Mysticism -- Islam
• RELIGION -- Islam | Sufi
• Shī{u02BF}ah
• Shīʻah
• Sufism
• Sufism
• Sufismus
• Philosoph

Language

eng

Summary

• Pathways to an Inner Islam provides an introduction to the esoteric or spiritual "inner Islam" presented by Western thinkers Louis Massignon, Henry Corbin, Rene Guenon, and Frithjof Schuon. Particularly interested in Sufism--the mystical tradition of Islam--these four twentieth-century authors who wrote in French played an important role in presenting Islamic spirituality to the West and have also had an influence in parts of the Muslim world, such as Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan. Patrick Laude brings them together to argue that an understanding of their inner Islam challenges reductionist views of Islam as an essentially legalistic tradition and highlights its spiritual qualities. The book discusses their thought on the definitions of spiritual Islam and Sufism, the metaphysical and mystical understanding of the Prophet and the Qur'an, the function of femininity in Islamic spirituality, and the inner understanding of jihad. In addition, the writers' Christian backgrounds and
• Their participation in the intellectual and spiritual traditions of both Christianity and Islam offer a dynamic perspective on interfaith dialogue
• "Few questions could be more important for a contemporary understanding of Islam than the authority and interpretation of sacred texts, the role of women, and the nature and legitimacy of war. Laude addresses each of these issues, among others, with admirable sophistication."--James S. Cutsinger, author of Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon
• "This book makes a major contribution to Islamic studies by promoting the esoteric interpretation of Islam as a viable, tolerant alternative to the fundamentalists' version of Islam."--Mehdi Aminrazavi, author of The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry, and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam --Book Jacket

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

Nz

Dewey number

297.4

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

BP189.2

LC item number

.L38 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography