Awarif-ul-Maarif

Description:

Where much of the classical Sufi canon is poetry or memoir, Awarif-ul-Ma'arif is something different: a structured, practical manual. Written in the 13th century by Shaykh Shahabuddin Suhrawardi, it lays out the actual mechanics of the Sufi path, the stages of spiritual practice, the conduct expected of a teacher and a student, and the etiquette of communal life within a Sufi order.

If you've read the more devotional or poetic side of this tradition and want to understand how it actually worked as a lived practice, this is the book that fills that gap.

This edition is Wilberforce Clarke's 1891 translation, newly typeset by Hidden Lantern Press with extensive correction of OCR errors and garbled text from the original scan, and with footnotes reorganized into linked endnotes for easy reference.

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