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Preface and Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Translator's Introduction | p. 1 |
Ostad Elahi's Life and Works | p. 1 |
Childhood and Youth | p. 2 |
Professional Life and Judicial Career | p. 5 |
The Final Period: Writing and Teaching | p. 9 |
Ostad Elahi's Published Works: The Place of Knowing the Spirit | p. 10 |
Historical Contexts: The Audience, Language, and Structure of Ma'rifat ar-Ruh | p. 11 |
The "Three Sources": Rational Argument, Religious Tradition, and Spiritual Experience | p. 13 |
Allusion and Realization | p. 15 |
The Basic Structure of Knowing the Spirit: The Origin and the Return | p. 17 |
The Contemporary Significance of Knowing the Spirit | p. 20 |
The Persian Text and Translation Conventions | p. 23 |
Original Table of Contents | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 39 |
Establishing the Existence of the Divine Artisan | p. 43 |
The Spirit | p. 55 |
The Gathering, Reawakening, and Returning (of the Spirit) in the Realm of Return | p. 63 |
The Purely Bodily Return | p. 69 |
The Purely Spiritual Return | p. 73 |
The Harmonization of a Bodily and Spiritual Return | p. 79 |
The (Spirit's) Return by Way of the Process of Perfection | p. 83 |
The Belief of the Proponents of Transmigration | p. 107 |
Conclusion | p. 115 |
Notes | p. 117 |
Notes to the Translator's Introduction | p. 117 |
Notes to the Translation | p. 127 |
Bibliography | p. 145 |
References Originally Cited | p. 145 |
Works Cited in the Translator's Introduction and Notes | p. 147 |
Index | p. 149 |
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