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This groundbreaking study by renowned Orientalist Reynold Alleyne Nicholson delves into one of the most profound questions in Sufi philosophy: the nature and development of personality within Islamic mysticism. Nicholson traces how Sufi thinkers conceptualize the individual self, ego, and consciousness as they progress through spiritual stations and states of union with the Divine.
The work examines key Sufi doctrines including ego-annihilation (fana), the dissolution of the individual will into divine will, and the transformation of the human personality through mystical experience. Nicholson’s meticulous scholarship presents primary texts and philosophical arguments from major Sufi masters, analyzing how personality is understood not as something to be preserved but as something to be transcended and refined.
Essential reading for scholars of Islamic mysticism, comparative religion, and philosophy of self, this classic text remains authoritative in understanding the psychological and spiritual dimensions of Sufism.
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