عشق
Ishq
Sufi Philosophy — love as a way of knowing
372
Pages
3
Parts
11
Chapters
2026
Year
“
In Sufi thought, love is not a mood — it is an organ of cognition. What cannot be seen with the eye can be seen with ishq.
— from Ishq, Mukesh Bansal
Table of contents
What this volume contains
01
Part
I · The Proposal
01What Sufis Mean by Love
02Love and Knowledge
03Why Poetry is the Natural Language
02
Part
II · The Masters
01Hallāj and the Price of Speech
02Rabi‘a and Pure Intention
03Rūmī and the School of the Broken Heart
04Ibn ‘Arabī and the Metaphysics of Love
05Hāfiz and the Wine of Meaning
03
Part
III · The Practice
01Dhikr — The Repetition That Undoes
02Samā‘ — Music as Method
03The Shaykh and the Student
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