Striving for Divine Union Spiritual Exercises for Suhrawardi Sufis

This book examines the theological, philosophical and Islamic mystical dimensions of the Suhrawarda sufi order from the 13th to 15th centuries. The Suhrawardas were a legally grounded and intellectually vibrant sufi order whose mystical path was based on exchanges and debates on the Qur'an and on the Prophet's customs. The book analyses their interpretation of sacred texts: the Qur'an, hadiths, sunna, and malfuzat. This created a unique self-understanding, which developed specific sufi spiritual exercises. The book discusses new important ways of thinking about the sufi hermeneutics of the Qur'an and its contribution to Islamic intellectual and spiritual life.Huda, Qamar-Ul is the author of 'Striving for Divine Union Spiritual Exercises for Suhrawardi Sufis', published 2002 under ISBN 9780700716869 and ISBN 0700716866.