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