October 2023 MBR The Islamic Studies Shelf

The Islamic Studies Shelf

The Essential Martin Lings
Reza Shah-Kazemi, Editor
World Wisdom
www.worldwisdom.com
9781936597741, $19.95

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Martin-Lings/dp/1936597748

The Essential Martin Lings gathers chapters from a compendium of his works that address spiritual and philosophical subjects, including those on Islam and Sufism as well as questions about religions and literature. It is especially important and nicely presented, given the editor's grounding in Islamic studies and Comparative Religion, and contrasts life objectives, experiences, and perceptions with broader questions that dovetail the spiritual ideals of different thinkers with Lings's own reflections. Any library strong in Islam examinations and philosophical intersections between belief and ideals will find a satisfying synthesis of materials that flows from subject to subject quite nicely in The Essential Martin Lings.

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