Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Paperback

9780061625992

 

Contents

 

Part One

One: What It Means to Be Human

Who Are We and What Are We Doing Here?

 

Part Two

Two: Truth

The Knowledge That Illuminates and Delivers from the Bondage of Ignorance

 

Three: Love and Beauty

The Fire That Attracts and Consumes, the Peace That Calms and Liberates

 

Four: Goodness and Human Action

To Do His Will, to Conform to the Divine Nation

 

Five: How Do We Reach the Garden of Truth?

The Path to the One

 

Part Three

Six: Access to the Center

Sufism Here and Now

 

Part Four

 

Appendix One: The Sufi Tradition and the Sufi Orders

Reflections on the Manifestation of Sufism in Time and Space

 

Appendix Two: The Tradition of Theoretical Sufism and Gnosis