Table of Contents
Winter 1993–94
This issue explores love as the heart of the Sufi path — the force that unites seeker and Beloved, self and other, across all forms of devotion.
In his discourse “Sufi Love”, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh distinguishes ordinary affection, mutual devotion, and the boundless love that effaces the self in the Beloved.
The essays and stories turn this teaching through many facets — the self’s gnosis in Rumi’s Mathnavi, the discipline of service in the khanaqah, the transmission of sanctity in the life of Dātā Ganjbakhsh, and the reflection of the soul in Sufi poetry — while poems of yearning, return, and union complete a meditation on love as both the path and the goal.
Discourse
- Sufi Love — Text of a Speech by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
Articles
- The Gnosis of Self in Rumi’s Mathnavi — by M. Este’lami
- Reflections on Louis Massignon and His Legacy of Dialogue — by Herbert Mason
- Yahya Bakharzi on Service in the Khanaqah — by Muhammad Isa Waley
- The Enigma of Data Ganjbakhsh — by Terry Graham
- The Mirror in Sufi Poetry — by Jacquelyn Bralove
Stories
- The Moment is a Godsend — by Bill Winters
- The Stone-seller’s Daughter — by Richard Barton
- Cast Your Bread Upon the Water — by Mojdeh Bayat
Poetry
- Nightingales Under the Snow — by Annemarie Schimmel
- Craving — by Abid Mohiuddin
- Tears — by Paul Bergner
- The Passion of Madness — by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
- Love — by Alex Cowie
- Voice of Return — by Caroline McCutcheon
- The Music of Union — by Ian Richard Netton