By Kenneth S. Avery
ISBN-10: 0415311063
ISBN-13: 9780415311069
ISBN-10: 0415754119
ISBN-13: 9780415754118
Avery explores the psychology of altered states one of the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - hearing ritual recitation, track and likely different aural phenomena - and its impression in inducing strange states of recognition and behaviours. the point of interest is at the earliest personalities of the Islamic mystical culture, as mediated through texts from the tenth to the twelfth centuries C.E. those strange states are interpreted within the gentle of present examine in Western psychology, and in addition by way of their integration into ancient Islamic culture.
A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ` provides new insights into the paintings of 5 Sufi authors, and a clean method of the relation among historic bills of altered states and present mental thinking.
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