A collection of twenty lectures given over the last ten years, and two academic articles that reflect upon the teachings of Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, his granddaughter Zaynab and the Twelve Imams [as], and consider how our lives may be illuminated and our hearts strengthened in the fraught atmosphere of an often toxic modern age. Dear reader, if your order does not come through, please contact me directly on-line through facebook, youtube or Twitter. Contents: Lectures: 1. Transforming our Way of Being 2. Entering the Prophetic Path 3. The Return to Our Primordial Nature 4. The Ethics of Brotherhood in Islam according to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib 5. The Place for Islam in the Modern World 6. Being Muslim in a Secular Environment 7. Divine Justice 8. Mawlid: Celebrating the Birth of Prophet Muhammad 9. Ghadīr: Fulfilling the Sunna of Allah 10. The Heart of Walaya 11. Imamate as the Protecting Vessel of the Heart 12. The Ontological Imam 13. Zuhd in the Life of Imam ‘Ali 14. Humanity in Nahj al-Balagha 15. The Esoteric and Symbolic Significance of Fatima 16. Imam al-Husayn’s Stand against Materialism 17. Sayyeda Zaynab: Preserving a Gift of the Ahl al-Bayt: Seeing the Inward Reality of Things 18. Conversations with Imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq 19. Initiation and the Qualities of the Shi‘a 20. Following the Scholars in the Time of Occultation Articles 1. A Comparative Exploration of the Spiritual Authority of the Awliyā’ in the Shī‘ī and Sūfī traditions. 2. Walāya as a Response to the Self-Other Dichotomy in European Philosophy
Shi'i Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century - Rebecca Masterton
A collection of twenty lectures given over the last ten years, and two academic articles that reflect upon the teachings of Prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, his granddaughter Zaynab and the...
