{"product_id":"ranks-of-the-divine-seekers-9789004510968","title":"Ranks of the Divine Seekers","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751\/1350) \u003ci\u003eMadārij al-Sālikīn\u003c\/i\u003e. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, \u003ci\u003eMadārij\u003c\/i\u003e aims to rejuvenate Sufism's Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master's instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one's self (\u003ci\u003efanāʾ\u003c\/i\u003e) and subsist (\u003ci\u003ebaqāʾ\u003c\/i\u003e) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOvamir Anjum, Ph.D. (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor and Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Toledo. His publications include numerous articles and a monograph \u003ci\u003ePolitics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580175253778,"sku":"9789004510968","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9f33092-b0bf-4f05-8f15-a47e647fd2c7.jpg?v=1756209301","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ranks-of-the-divine-seekers-9789004510968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}