What makes a people long for deliverer? This is the question posed by Glaser and Kay at the opening of chapter 5 of their excellent book Thinking Biblically about Islam. They were looking at the state of mind among Jewish people at the time of the coming of Christ before turning to similarities with the […]
The Other Islam ought to have a chapter entitled “Jesus in Sufism,” but it hasn’t. I actually own a book called “Jesus in the Eyes of Sufis” by Dr Javad Nurbaksh, a Shi’ite Sufi.I also have a copy of Tarif Khalidi’s “The Muslim Jesus” which quuotes many sayings and anecdotes used in Sufi literature. Jesus
These are those guys… “We have found the Messiah.” “We have found the one Moses wrote about.” The excitement of Andrew and Philip in John 1:44-45 was palpable. They had found what they had been hoping for and they wanted to tell others. As I think about the young Sufi Muslims I have met here
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The image on the cover of the book is based on a theme closely associated with the Sufism. It might look to us like a bishop’s mitre, but what it is a Sufi symbol representing is the footprint of Muhammad. You can find examples by searching for “al-na’alayn al-sharif” or “the prophets’s sandal.” Exotic muli-coloured