This new entry in the highly regarded Makers of the Muslim World series introduces one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Maps
Preface
1 GOD’ S BLESSINGS
Origins
Slave Soldiers
Mamluk Sultanate
Secretaries and Scholars
Education
Damascus
Mosques and Libraries
Gabriel’ s Questions
Obedient Servant
Dress and Decorum
Saints and Shrines
Inner Sanctum
Intercession or Idolatry
Forgiveness and Favor
2 AISHA AL-BA‘ UNIYYA AND THE BELOVED PROPHET
Muhammad ibn ‘ Abd Allah
That Sacred Place
Syrian Caravan
Damascus to Medina
Medina to Mecca
Before the Black Stone
Hajj
Dreams
What is a Woman to Do?
Poems of Praise
Blessings
Holy Prophet
Virtuous Life
Return to Heaven
3 O MY LOVE AND HAPPINESS
Marriage and Family
Sufi Way
Venerable Masters
Recalling the Lord
Noble Invocations
Taste and See
Hymn/Him
Poetry of Recollection
He’ s My Destiny
Old Loves for New
Ibn al-Farid
Odes in T
Covenant
Wine of Love
Moses of the Heart
Seat of Truth
4 TREE OF MYSTICAL LIFE
Repentance
Sincerity
Recollection
Love
Amazing Stories
Wondrous Secret
Ocean Without a Shore
5 GATHERING UNION
New Challenges
To Egypt
Cairo
Victorious
Pomp and Princess
Among the Elite
Shadows of War
Time of Change
Legacy
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index