THE JOURNEY OF THE SELF
(Excerpts Only)

By: Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri

Authors Quoted

1. Al-Adawiya, Rabi'ah bint Ismail; the eighth-century saint of Basra, Iraq.

2. Al-Jamal, Sidi Ali; eighteenth-century Moroccan gnostic who described the grid of opposites in The Meaning of Man, published by Diwan Press, Norwich (UK): 1977.

3. Al-Jurjani, Sayyid Sharif; the fourteenth-century Persian theologian and gnostic.

4. Al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq; ninth-century philosopher of Baghdad.

5. Al-Miskawayh, Ahmad ibn Muhammad; a historian and philosopher of the tenth century in Iran.

6. Al-Misri, Dhu al-Nun; ninth-century Egyptian gnostic.

7. Al-Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya; known in the West as Rhazes, tenth-century Persian theologian and physician.

8. Al-Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad; widely known as Mulla Sadra, the renowned sixteenth-century Persian theosopher.

9. Al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din abu Jafar; the thirteenth-century Persian ethical philosopher.

10. Ibn Abi Talib, Ali; the fourth Islamic caliph and first Shi'ite Imam, the renowned seventh-century master, gnostic and traditionist to whom all Sufi orders trace their origin.

11. Ibn Arabi, Muhyiddin; or al-Arabi, sixteenth-century theologian and mystic of Andalusia, Spain.

12. Ibn Sina; known as Avicenna in the West, lived in the eleventh century in Bokhara (in present day Russia). [note that this book was first published in 1989]