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Sufism : veil and quintessence : a new translation with selected letters

"This revised and expanded edition of Frithjof Schuon's Sufism: Veil and Quintessence contains: a new translation of this classic work; previously unpublished correspondence by Frithjob Schuon; an editor's preface by James S. Cutsinger; a new foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr; extensive editor's notes by James S. Cutsinger; a glossary of foreign terms and phrases; an index; and biographical notes."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
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World Wisdom, Bloomington, Ind., 2006
xv, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
9781933316284, 1933316284
1151801719
Ellipsis and hyperbolism in Arab rhetoric
The exo-esoteric symbiosis
Paradoxes of an esoterism
Human premises of a religious dilemma
Tracing the notion of philosophy
The quintessential esoterism of islam
Hypostatic dimensions of unity
Appendix
Selections from letters and other previously unpublished writings
"Includes other previously unpublished writings."