Addresses II
Bulent Rauf
108 pp Soft cover: £10.50 ISBN 0 904975 30 4 |
The essays collected here were written during the last fifteen years of Bulent Rauf's life, and display his wide range of knowledge and interests. They include translations, commentaries on the work of Ibn 'Arabi, essays on history and cookery, and a fragment of autobiography. Above all they express the principle that, as John Brass writes in the 'Introduction' to this volume:
"Union with God [is] the sole purpose for the existence of Man. Those whose aim was the same, found in Bulent Rauf one who was at ease with the most elevated explanations concerning Man's perfectibility, and who was able to express these ideas at the level of those who brought the questions..."
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