By John Ahmed Herlihy

Price: Rs 300.00

It has become increasingly clear to many "modern" individuals today that the paradigm of knowledge that is set forth by modern science as the prevailing world view, while it bedazzles us with intricacy, its precision, and its technological edge, has led to a crises of identity and fails on fundamental levels to answer the perennial questions that lie at the heart of man’s being.

This work explores the hidden assumptions that define every aspect of modern scientific knowledge and shape every facet of the modern world, assumptions that amount to a kind of secular faith in order to bridge the gap that exists between proven facts and unprovable mysteries. The search for an understanding of the truth and for a universal synthesis of knowledge must reach beyond the edge of a strictly provable and scientific knowledge. This search must also express a willingness to cross unknown frontiers and expand inner horizons in order to come to terms with the essential knowledge of God that lies within the human heart as well as the heart of the cosmic universe.

"The moment of departure has arrived and the moment of decision is at hand. Modern man finds himself suspended between two distinct and dynamic world-views that have the power to transform lives and change perceptions of self, each offering alternatives that create a division between the world of science and the world of religion that will lead future man in opposite directions if they continue to proceed on separate parallel tracks. One is the path of the cerebral mind; the other is the path of the intelligent heart. Both paths demand our attention with their exotic myths of the origin of man and the true nature of reality, and both lay claim to the topography of the mind, will and heart of man with a tenacity that is hard to resist…"

About the Author
John Ahmed Herlihy, born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at Boston University and Columbia University in New York, became a Muslim 25 years ago. He is presently living and working in the Sultanate of Oman.

By Imran Yahya (formerly William Stoddart)

Price Rs 160.00

Sufism has been described as ‘the heart of Islam’ for it represents Islam’s inward or mystical dimension. At the end of the Sufi path to be found nothing less than the uncoloured Truth or, in subjective terms, one’s true Selfhood.

This book supplies a much needed explanation of the essential doctrine and practical elements of Sufism for the ever growing number of people who, from a variety of motives, are attracted to Sufi teachings. Not only the students of ‘comparative religion’, but all who seek some outlet from today’s stifling materialism will find much in these pages that relates to their conditions; for a great virtue of Sufism is that if speaks at one and the same time to man’s intelligence and man’s heart.

The author has made a prolonged study of the most important published material relating to Sufism, and this research has been deepened and amplified through personal contacts in the course of journeys to places as far apart as Morocco and Bosnia, Turkey and India. Appropriately, the author begins by introducing his readers to the main features of Islam, which is the framework within which Sufism flourishes, and whose scriptural language it necessarily employs.