Shah Maghsoud : life and legacy

Shah Maghsoud : life and legacy / Nahid Angha.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Angha, Nahid
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, CA : International Association of Sufism Publications, ©2021.
Subjects:
Sādiq ʻAnqā, > 1916-1980.
Muslim philosophers > Biography.
Sufism.
Table of Contents:
  • A note to the reader
  • Introduction
  • 1. The life, time, and thought of Shah Maghsoud. Geographical and political environments ; Iran's political environment during the twentieth century ; Religious environment ; Language and Iranian identity ; The stages of Shah Maghsoud's life ; Childhood and youth ; Education ; Adulthood : marriage and work ; Death ; Shah Maghsoud's Khaniqah ; Sufi Abad ; Teachers
  • 2. Books. Published works. Kukab-i adab (Star of literature) ; Padidehay-i fikr (Manifestations of thought) ; Nirvan‭ ; Mathnawi mazamir-i haqq va Golzar-i omid (Mathnawi of Psalms of truth and the garden of hope) ; Avaz-i khudayan (Psalms of gods) ; Chante : jahān-i ʻārif (Chante : the universe of the knower) ; Payam-i dil (Message of the heart trans. as A meditation) ; Zavaya-i makhfi-i hayati (Hidden angles of life) ; Ozan va-mizan (Weights and balances) ; Hamasch-i hayat (The epic of life) ; Sahar (Dawn) ; Tib-i sunnati (Traditional medicine) ; Al-rasā'il (Treatises) ; Mathnawi shahid va-mashud (Mathnawi of witness and witnessed) and Mathnavi seyr-saʻīr, va-tayr-i nadir (Mathnawi of the journey and the journeyer a unique spiritual flight) ; Sayr al-hajar (Secret of stone) ; Diwan-i ghazal (The book of sonnets)
  • Unpublished works. Danishmandan-i zar-i bini (Microscopic scientists) ; Ahan (Iron) ; ʻIshq va-sarnevisht (Love and destiny)
  • Calligraphy
  • 3. Annotations and remarks. Understanding god : a mystical quest ; The heart : Qalb ; Shah Maghsoud's doctrine of the locus of life : ʻuqdah-i hayati ; The journey of knowledge ; Degrees (Maratib) and Classifications of the heart ; The Qur'anic classification of the heart ; Stations and states ; Shah Maghsoud and the stations of the heart ; Colors of light associated with the stations of the heart ; Love : the attracting energy ; The conquest of the heart ; Subtle (Latifa) centers and modes ; Insight (basirat) ; Self-disclosure of god : Tajalli ; The circular journey of return : the story of Nirvan ; The human being ; The creation story ; Life and dissolution ; Return ; The hero and the narrator ; Proximity to god ; Transformation
  • 4. Epilogue.

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