The Chapters of Mary and Ta Ha from the Immense Ocean – Quranic Commentary of Ibn Ajiba Peter Clark

The Chapters of Mary and Ta Ha from the Immense Ocean – Quranic Commentary of Ibn Ajiba Peter ClarkSurah Maryam & Surah H from al Bahr al Madid. The Chapters of Mary and H center on the key figures of Islams two sister monotheisms, Mary, mother of Christ, and Moses. Ibn Ajibas commentaries on these two srahs give reader access not only to the traditional Islamic view of these prophetic figures, but also on metaphors and symbols to be found in their stories that can of use to anyone following an inner path to God. The Chapter of Mary, in particular,

but also as a great spiritual autobiography of one of the world’s greatest religious thinkers

which has maintained standards that everywhere else seem to be dwindling

and Ziauddin Sardar fails to cope with a troublesome Auntie

“I learnt with certainty that it is above all the mystics who walk on the road of God

deal with death-anxiety

The Mercy of Night is a luminous collection that journeys through grief

in his forty-part compendium of Islamic knowledge

when the senses and passions which distract it are stilled

none compares to the gift of speech

Sophia Pandya observes the battle between a Gazi warrior and a Sufi mystic

Shazia Mirza tells rude jokes in Lahore

To hold to them is to cling to a rope let down from God