William C. Chittick ; foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Illustrated ed.
Bloomington, Ind. :
World Wisdom,
2005.
xiv, 103 p. :
ill. (chiefly col.) ;
26 cmm.
Spiritual masters. East and West series
Includes index.
Foreword / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- I. Sufism and Islam -- II. God and the world : "the infinitude of the all-possible" -- III. The nature of man -- 1. Universal man -- 2. The fall -- 3. The trust -- IV. Operative sufism -- 1. Union with God -- 2. The Nafs -- 3. Knowledge and method -- 4. The limitations of rational knowledge.