The mystical poetry of Shiblī
pp. 195-203
in: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed), Reason, spirit and the sacral in the new enlightenment, Berlin, Springer, 2011Abstract
Sufism, the mystical movement of Islam, has seen various manifestations of reason and spirit, amalgamating highly refined thought and experience in the prose or poetry of writers such as Rūmī or Ibn `Arabī. For some Sufis, however, "spirit' has predominated in their thought and experience, while the abstractions and intellectual pursuits of reason have been downplayed.