Love In Sufism

This book investigates the significance of divine love in the Islamic tradition, with particular refer-ence to Sufism. Although Sufis are considered the forerunners of writing on the subject of divine love, there is a relative paucity of literatüre regard-ing the details of their conceptions of love. There-fore, Love in Sufısm by Süleyman Derin should be considered as one of the first instances in its field that covers the thought of a wide number of Sufi fıgures writing in Arabic.Süleyman Derin not only provides us with a com-prehensive account of the Sufi paradigms of love presented by Rabia, Hallaj, al-Ghazali, Ibn Arabi and Ibn al-Farid ~with an analysis of the speciflc motives of each particular paradigmbut also provides insight into the social and historical context of their milieu. This book addresses not only academia but also general readers of Sufısm.