The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition

Review “Despite the popularity of Sufism, few books provide an overview of this mystical branch of Islam― a void Nasr fills nicely with this concise primer. . . . a wise and tantalizing overview.” -- Publishers WeeklyThe Sufi mystical heart of Islam is one of the few antidotes to fundamentalism in the Muslim world, and here Nasr looks at the human spiritual quest for the paradisiacal divine garden from a Sufi perspective . . . Eloquent, elegant, and lucid. -- Library Journal Product Description   The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment, insisting rather on the love of God as the only valid form of adoration. Sufism has made significant contributions to Islamic civilization in music and philosophy, dance and literature. The