Sawānih
Book description
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Sawānih as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you love platonic dialogues, you will love this book. Its author is Ahmad Ghazali, the younger (and cooler!) brother of the much more famous Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, usually considered the greatest theologian of Sunni Islam. It is the younger Ahmad who wrote the first Persian book on Radical Love, in which he specifically asserts that he will write a book on love if there is no bifurcation between human love and Divine Love.
From Omid's list on Rumi’s path of radical love.
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