By Franklin Lewis — 2009
Sharia and the external observance of religious rules are only the beginning for the seeker after truth.
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This is the first of very few English books to treat Islam from its own point of view, from within the tradition. It is written for the Western reader interested in Islam, and also for the Western-educated Muslim.
Essential Sufism draws together more than three hundred fables, poems, and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism.