Merton & Sufism The Untold Story: A Complete Compendium

by Baker, Rob; Henry, Gray; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Chittick, William C.

• ISBN13: 9781887752077
• ISBN10: 1887752072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Fons Vitae

Summary

This comprehensive collection includes essays by scholars, Merton's own Sufi poems, book reviews of Sufi texts, as well as edited transcriptions of his lectures on Sufism.

Table of Contents

Preface What Attracted Merton to Sufism	9	(5)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Dramatis Personae	14	(1)
Introduction Sufism: Name and Reality	15	(18)
William C. Chittick
Merton's Reflections on Sufism	33	(7)
Burton B. Thurston
Thomas Merton's Interest in Islam: The Example of Dhikr	40	(11)
Bonnie Thurston
Merton, Massignon, and the Challenge of Islam	51	(28)
Sidney H. Griffith
Merton and Massignon	52	(11)
Le Point Vierge	63	(5)
The Challange of Islam	68	(11)
A Treatise on the Heart	79	(10)
Muhammad ibn `Ali al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
Nicholas Heer
Islamic Themes in Merton's Poetry	89	(12)
Erlinda G. Paguio
``As One Spiritual Man to Another'': The Merton-Abdul Aziz Correspondence	101	(29)
Sidney H. Griffith
The Beginning of the Correspondence	101	(3)
One Spiritual Man to Another	104	(2)
This World of Darkness	106	(2)
Mutual Comprehension	108	(7)
Mystics and Sufi Masters	115	(15)
Merton's Sufi Lectures to Cistercian Novices, 1966--68	130	(33)
Bernadette Dieker
Union of God and Man	132	(2)
Knowledge of God	134	(2)
Tanzih and Tashbih--God Manifest	136	(1)
Perplexity to Perfection--Mercy	137	(2)
The Names of God	139	(2)
The Straight Way	141	(5)
Searching for God	146	(1)
Do It Yourself	147	(1)
Dissolution of Self	148	(2)
States and Stations	150	(2)
Community Following a Leader--with Grace (the Shaikh)	152	(1)
Extinction of Self	153	(1)
Permanent Crisis of the Person	154	(2)
Humility	156	(2)
Peace	158	(1)
The Mystical Life in Sufism	158	(5)
Thomas Merton and a Sufi Saint	163	(19)
Gray Henry
The Visit of Sidi Abdeslam to Gethsemani	182	(11)
Nicole Abadie
Personal Discovery of Sufism	182	(3)
Trips to Mecca and Jerusalem	185	(3)
The Meeting with Merton at Gethsemani	188	(2)
The Ensuing Correspondence	190	(1)
Assessing a Master	191	(2)
Merton, Marco Pallis and the Traditionalists	193	(73)
Rob Baker
The Secret and the Open among the Traditionalists	196	(4)
Basic Elements of Traditionalist Thought	200	(2)
The Merton-Pallis Letters	202	(21)
Merton Correspondence with Other Traditionalists	223	(14)
Miscellaneous References in the Merton Collection	237	(29)
Final Integration: Toward a ``Monastic Therapy''	266	(12)
Thomas Merton
Photo Essay Sufis and Cistercians	278	(9)
Appendix A Merton's Sufi Poems	287	(19)
Readings from Ibn Abbad	287	(7)
East with Ibn Battuta	294	(5)
Lubnan	299	(1)
Tomb Cover of Imam Riza	300	(1)
Song for the Death of Averroes	300	(3)
The Night of Destiny	303	(2)
The Moslems' Angel of Death (Algeria 1961)	305	(1)
Appendix B Merton's Sufi Book Reviews from	306	(13)
Collectanea Cisterciensia
Rabindranath Tagore	306	(2)
Martin Lings	308	(1)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr	309	(1)
Fritz Meier	310	(2)
Reza Arasteh	312	(1)
Paul Nwyia	313	(1)
Dom Jean Leclercq	314	(1)
Cyprien Rice	315	(4)
Appendix C The Universality of Monasticism and Its Relevance in the Modern World	319	(16)
Frithjof Schuon
Contributors	335	(4)
Acknowledgments	339