by Sister Miriam MacGillis
On the hillside is a ceremonial space called the Path of the Fourfold Wisdom, which Thomas Berry describes as a fourfold legacy of human wisdom we can draw from in this moment.
Category: Archives
Archives 88 – Rumi’s Preference for Scandalous Sufis
by Jawid Mojaddedi
It is well known from both his own writings as well as his biographical tradition that the most important contemporary Sufi in Rumi’s eyes was his mentor, Shams-e Tabriz.
Archives 88 – Women on the Rooftop
by Safoura Nourbakhsh
Among other things, the hagiographies of Abu Sa’id shed some light on the segregation of the sexes in the Sufi lodges (khaneqahs)
Archives 88 – Sufi Practice and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
by Michele Rousseau
Fundamental to Sufism is the unity of all of creation. Traditionally, this has been referred to as absolute reality and absolute being.
Archives 88 – Boot Camp of Collapsing Forms
by Jan Shoemaker
It’s hard to keep your foothold in a world where structures are constantly collapsing, where boundaries erode and old forms fall away—from cells to civilizations.
Archives 88 – The Theatre of Peter Brook
by Joe Martin
CultureWatch: Making the “invisible visible” is one of a few simple ideas with huge ramifications upon which Peter Brook would build over the decades.
Archives Issue 86
FROM THE EDITORS
It has been said that teachings of Sufis are paradoxical and their behavior crazy. In the Sufis’ mystical world view, the unseen, inner realm is what counts the most and it, in turn, determines all material phenomena. This is in contrast to the opposite, materialistic world view that has been most widely promoted for centuries, making Sufi thought seem at times counter-intuitive or illogical. This issue of SUFI focuses on contemporary explorations of some timeless teachings—profound and often paradoxical—handed down by Sufi masters to inspire the inward journey.
HIGHLIGHTS – WINTER 2014
[threecol_one]DISCOURSE
YEARNING
by Alireza Nurbakhsh
ARTICLES
RUMI AND “ISLAM”
RECONSIDERED
The Light of God Beyond Religion
by Jawid Mojaddedi
ADAB
Sufi Etiquette in the Outer
and Inner Worlds
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
THE MIRROR OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
An American Ethnographer
in a Sufi Community
by John L. Caughey
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INTERVIEW
SUFISM: HISTORY,
POLITICS AND CULTURE
A Conversation with
Carl Ernst
interviewed by Llewellyn Smith
CULTUREWATCH
RE-TRACING THE SIMORGH
Interpretations of “The
Conference of the Birds”
in Contemporary Art
by Sholeh Johnston
BOOK REVIEWS
THE CONFERENCE OF
THE BIRDS
by Alexa York Lumbard
Review by Peter Valentyne
FILM REVIEW
MAPPING OUT “CLOUD
ATLAS”
by Peter Valentyne
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NARRATIVES
MUEZZIN
by Charlotte Heckscher
BAAGHY AND THE
SPECIAL CARGO
Some Kind of Story
by Martin Harris
POETRY
LOST
by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
RIVER OF LIGHT
by Heather Grant
DIRECTIONS OF GOD
by Ellen Jane Powers
HONEY
by Raphael Block
STARS FOR ROBERT BLY
by Thomas R. Smith
INSIDE COVERS – POETRY
UNHINGED
by Roger Loff
WE ARE CELLS OF HIS BODY
by Jeni Couzyn
FEATURED POET
JENI COUZYN
FEATURED POET
ELLEN JANE POWERS
FEATURED ARTIST
AARON HUEY
(Cover Photo & Interview Photos)
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Archives Issue #77
THE ROSE OF SHIRAZ by Jeffrey Rothschild
HAFIZ OF SHIRAZ by Ali Jamnia and Mojdeh Bayat
HASSIDIC WISDOM by Rabbi Allen S. Maller
WHY ANTS DO ONE THING AT A TIME by Anonymous
LOOKING FOR HAAL IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES by Dani Kopoulos
POETRY from Diwan-I’Attar translated by A.R., Diwan-I Hafiz translated by J. Einboden and J. Slate and A.R., One by Four, translations of Hafiz translated by Jeffrey Rothschild, Walter Leaf, Jawid Mojaddedi, P. Avery and J. Heath-Stubbs, Imaginary Numbers, Newton’s Third Law of Karma, and Roll Over Descartes, by Paul Campbell, Adrift on Your Ocean by Mary Kugler, heart and mind by Joan Margalith
ARTWORK Featured cover photograph of a painting by Nouriman Manouchehri from the Paradise Series 2006-2007
BOOK REVIEW Sufism in the West ed. Jamal Malik and John Hinnells
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