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Spring 1991
The Spring 1991 issue of the Sufi Journal explores sincerity, devotion, and the transformative power of love through discourse, essays, narratives, and poetry.
In his discourse, Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh contrasts the ego-bound logic of reason with the path of love, showing how only love can subdue the self and establish unity.
Essays turn to Ibn al-ʿArabi as lover (William Chittick) and a Sufi reading of the Bhagavadgita (Roderic Vassie), while narratives revisit Rabeʿa and weave allegory into modern settings.
Poetry by Annemarie Schimmel, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sheikha Haida Khan, and Caroline McCutcheon carries the theme forward, offering lyrical meditations on unity and devotion.
Discourse
- Reason and Love — Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
Articles & Essays
- Ibn al-ʿArabi as Lover — William C. Chittick
- ʿAbdo’r-Rahman Cheshti and the Bhagavadgita — Roderic Vassie
Narratives
- Rabeʿa, Crown of Men — Jeffrey Rothschild
- Allegory Through the Computing Class — P. J. Stewart
Poetry
- The Path — Annemarie Schimmel
- Silence and Etiquette of the Sufis — Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
- The Infidel’s Sash — Peter Lamborn Wilson
- If to Love You Are True — Sheikha Haida Khan
- The Song of Unity — Caroline McCutcheon