Sufi Wisdom

Marietta Stepaniants is Director of the Center for Oriental Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

• Introduction 1 Unity of Being 2 Anguish after the Hidden 3 The Path of Perfection 4 Sufism and Modernity Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index

"It is delightful to see scholarship on Islam re-emerging in Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet period. Here we see what may be a distinctly Russian approach to intellectual history, with a systematic and comparative approach of a remarkably wide extent. A profound sympathy for the sources, which are presented in luxurious profusion, is tempered by a shrewd and realistic appreciation of political realities."—Carl. W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill