Table of Contents

Prologue; General Introduction; The Foundation; Compassion & Mercy; Universality; The Door of Hope; The Audition; Four Poles, Four Elements; Ethics; The Mind & the Heart; Faith; Courtesy; Political Secularism; Knowledge/Science, Art; Closing the Two Doors; The Base Self; The Divine Law; Charity; Destiny; Death, Afterlife, the Apocalypse; The Beginning; The Essence of Man; The Paths (Orders); Worship; The Secret & the Sublime III; The Prophet; The Caliphs; The Scholars; The Saints; Chain. Epilogue; Appendix: Some Important Formulas; Index.

About the Author

Henry Bayman is a student of Sufism and an independent scholar who has lived in Turkey for many years. He is the author of three previous books on Sufism and Islam: The Station of No Station (2001), The Secret of Islam (2003) and The Black Pearl (2005).