Ramadan: Motivating Believers to Action : An Interfaith Perspective - Softcover

Laleh Bakhtiar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934905258 ISBN 13: 9780934905251

Publisher: Kazi Publications, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

Ramadan is not just a month of fasting, but a month of spiritual healing. Presented from an interfaith perspective as a means to motivate believers to action, the articles by such famous writers as Muhammad al-Ghazzali, Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Imam Jawziyya, Ibn Sireen, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mawlana Mawdudi and Laleh Bakhtiar include essays on both the Law and the Way. They are divided into the traditional threefold method of spiritual healing, namely, knowledge, inner processing and action. The method produces the seven characteristics of devotees as Goal-Setters and Believers (knowledge, cognition, theoethics), Strategists, Moral Healers, Energizers (inner processing, affect or emotions, psychoethics) and Human Bonders and Master Communicators (action or behavior towards God, self and others, socioethics).

About this title

About the Author:

Laleh Bakhtiar, Ph.D., a well-known author on Sufism, is the first person to unearth traditional psychology which had been buried in medieval philosophy. With this work she shows that traditional psychology is alive and vibrant and should be an alternative psychology to modern schools as the stress is upon morality and ethics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kazi Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0934905258
• ISBN 13: 9780934905251
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 301
• Editor: Laleh Bakhtiar