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The Kashf al-Maḥjūb (The Revelation of the Veiled) of ‘Alī b. ‘Uthmān al-Jullābī Hujwīri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism (Old)

By Reynold A. Nicholson

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Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust
Year
2014
ISBN
0906094372, 9780906094372
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1388505 bytes)
Pages
464\0
Time added
2018-03-29 02:31:04
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Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Middle East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Muhjub was probably written in Lahore, where he is buried, not long before his death in about 1074. One of the oldest Sufi works in Persian, it is a substantial treatise aiming to set forth a complete system of Sufism. This is achieved partly by the discussion of acts and sayings of the great figures of the past, partly by discussion of features of doctrine and practice and the examination of the different views adopted by different Sufi Schools. It is enlivened by episodes from the author's own experience.

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