Description This book offers the first extensive treatment in a European language of Tawba in Islam.
Chittick, also published by SUNY Press..
About the Author Atif Khalil is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and the coeditor (with Mohammed Rustom and Kazuyo Murata) of In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought, by William C.
The ideas of a number of prominent figures from the first few centuries of Islam are used to illuminate the historical development of Tawba and its role in Early praxis-oriented Sufism.
He then examines Tawba as a complex psychological process involving interior conversion and a complete, unwavering commitment to the spiritual life.
Beginning with an extensive survey of the semantic field of the term as outlined in Arabic lexicography, Khalil offers a detailed analysis of the concept in Muslim scripture.
Khalil examines this wider notion in the Early period of Sufism with a particular focus on the formative years of the tradition between Mu sib and Ab lib al-Makk .
Conventionally translated as "repentance," Tawba includes the broader sense of returning to God.
Description This book offers the first extensive treatment in a European language of Tawba in Islam
