The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names (Suny Islam)

Ahmad Sam'ani, William C. Chittick (Introduction by)

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Publication Date: July 2nd, 2020

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

ISBN:

9781438473345

Pages:

708

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Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.

About the Author

William C. Chittick is SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts and The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-'Arabī's Cosmology, both also published by SUNY Press.

The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names (Suny Islam)

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