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About the book:
Muslim religious life not only consists of belief in orthodox tenets of faith and a determined effort to follow the Sacred Law, it also requires one to scale the heights of the spiritual path. The Kitab al-Hikam of Shaykh Ibn ‘Ata’illah al-Iskandari is the inspiring explanation of the soul’s journey through this life, as determined through the Qur’an and Sunna. Along with his treatises and intimate discourses (munajat), the substantive feature of the work is the author’s 264 spiritual aphorisms (hikam)—concise, comprehensive and sublime sayings on self purification (tazkiya), and guidelines to help strengthen the relationship between humans and their Lord. These aphorisms, which have never failed to inspire, are presented in this edition according to the systematic arrangement of the great Indian scholar Shaykh ‘Ali Muttaqi (d. 975/1567), together with the indispensable commentary of the twentieth-century sage Shaykh ‘Abdullah Gangohi.
About the author:
Andrew Booso is originally from London. He read Law at the London School of Economics, and pursued traditional Islamic learning with a variety of teachers in a private capacity. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Al-Salam Institute (Oxford and London). He edits for a number of publishers specialising in the Islamic disciplines, and has produced works related to Quranic exegesis, spirituality, ethics, Islamic law and theology.