Spiritual Writings of Amir ʿAbd al-Kader

Michel Chodkiewicz is Director of Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

• Introduction I. On the Way 1 God has Stolen my "I" from Me2. The Two Ways3. On Pure Love4. Perfect Adoration5. Oh, thou, Soul at Peace6. What then has He Lost who has Found You?7. On the Necessity of a Spiritual Master8. The Two Deaths9. When the Sight will be Dazed...10. On the Prayer by Day and the Prayer by Night11. On Certitude12. He who Speaks and he who Listens13. On the True Fear of God14. When the Sun will Rise in the Place of its Setting II. On the Unicity of Being 15. On the Supreme Identity16. The Truth which should be Concealed17. On the Eternal Solitude of the Divine Essence18. Being and Non-being19. And He is with you wherever you are...20. The Exclusive Orientation21. Concerning Universal Life22. The Secrets of the Lam-Alif III. The Theophanies 23. The Face of God24. Transcendence and Immanence25. The Light of the Heavens and of the Earth26. The Theophanies and their Receptacles27. The Minaret of the Divine Names IV. On God and the Gods 28. He is that...29. The God Conditioned by Belief30. Concerning "Learned Ignorance" V. On Secondary Causes 31. Divine Knowledge and Divine Decree32. Concerning the Attribution of Acts33. On Evil34. On Secondary Causes35. The Return to God VI. On the Prophet 36. On the Imitation of the Prophet37. Concerning Extinction in the Prophet38. Concerning Abandonment to God39. Unitive Vision and Separative Vision VII. I am God, I am Creature... 40. I am God, I am Creature Notes Index