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HE work purports "to be ?-n introduction to the study of the doctrines of Sufism.
But, the author believes, this does not involve contradicting in any way the point of view inherent in Sufism, for "Sufism has always recognised the principle according to which the Divine Revelation, transmitted by the great mediators, takes on different forms corresponding to the different aptitudes of the human groupings called on to receive them.
viii) The author is "already well known to readers of French or German for his translations of and commentaries on texts of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Abd• al-Karim al Jili, and he writes, not from a scientific ororientalist point of view, but from that of Tasawwuf itself and with deep under• standing.
the Arabic text of the psychological part of Ibn Sina's well-known work Kitab al• Shifa, preceded by a short introduction in English in which the editor has described the various manuscripts which he has consulted as well as some previous editions of the work and its Latin translations.
"The Mizan al-Haqq", a comparatively little• known work, is an interesting study of certain controversial points of Muslim belief, ranging from the legality or otherwise of the use of tobacco and other narcotics to the religion of the Pharaoh of Moses and the parents of the Prophet Qf Islam, and is divided into twenty-one chapters or sections of unequal length, mostly small.