The book of wisdoms
Subtitle: Kitāb al-ḥikam, a collection of Sufi aphorisms
By: Shaykh Ibn 'Ata'illah al-Iskandari ; translated by Victor Danner, with commentary Ikmāl al-Shiyam / by Shaykh 'Abdullah Gangōhī ; introduction by Shaykh Zakariyā Kāndhlawī ; edited by Andrew Booso & Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf
Contributors: Danner, Victor, 1926-1990; Booso, Andrew; Ibn Yusuf, Abdur-Rahman, 1974-; Gangohi, Muḥammad ʻAbdullah, 1898-1921
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: White Thread Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: mul
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781933764054
Subjects: Sufism; Mysticism; Islam; Spirituality; Aphorisms and apothegms
Work titles: Ḥikām al-ʻAṭāʼīyah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On knowledge; title: On repentance; title: On sincerity; title: On the ritual prayer; title: On solitude & detachment; title: On time and its importance; title: On invocation; title: On meditation; title: On abstinence; title: On poverty; title: On disciplining the ego; title: On moderation in fear and hope; title: On the etiquette of supplication; title: On accepting the divine decree and abandoning choice; title: On patience through adversity; title: On the beneficence of Allah upon his servants; title: On companionship; title: On ambitious desire; title: On humility; title: On gradual delusion; title: On litany and inspiration; title: On the states of the path; title: On contraction and expansion; title: On spiritual lights and their categories; title: On the servant's proximity to allah and natural disposition; title: On the divine's proximity to creation and his manifestation of things by direction and guidance; title: On the special traits of the gnostics; title: On intuitive knowledge and reasoning; title: On exhortation and its effect on the heart; title: On thankfulness; title: The treatises; title: The first treatise; title: The second treatise; title: The stages of thankfulness; title: The third treatise; title: The fourth treatise; title: The intimate discourses.