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In Quest of God by Paul Jackson
£45.00
Maneri's Second Collection of 150 Letters
Translation, introduction & notes by Paul Jackson
Published: Gujarat Sahita Prakash, Gujarat, 2004
Condition: Fine, as new. Pages clean and unmarked, dust jacket pristine in cellophane wrapper
In India in the years 1346-47 Sheikh Sharafuddin Maneri, wrote an outline of the Sufi Path to God in the form of a hundred letters to a disciple called Qazi Shamsuddin. This collection quickly became well known and has been translated as Sharafuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters. In 1368 a disciple collected all the letters he could find of Maneri's replies written to various individuals in the intervening 21 years. This collection is presented here as In Quest of God: Maneri's Second Collection of 150 Letters. They offer personalized spiritual and religious guidance and encouragement to a variety of individuals and serve as a complement to the first, more general collection.
"Shaykh Yahya Maneri is arguably the most important Sufi letter writer from Muslim South Asia after Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi. Those familiar with the 100 Letters will now find in this companion volume an echo of the same quest for understanding and connection that makes the writer a spiritual voice across centuries and in variant contexts. All students of India and its legacy of wisdom should delight in the wide accessibility now given to the pir of Bihar in this beautifully produced edition of his 'other' letter
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