{"product_id":"the-garden-of-souls-how-a-forgotten-kurdish-philosopher-kept-wisdom-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world-9798195576042","title":"The Garden of Souls: How a Forgotten Kurdish Philosopher Kept Wisdom Alive at the End of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Narin Hikma\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Islam - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the thirteenth century, as the Mongol armies swept across the Islamic world and burned the libraries of Baghdad to ash, one philosopher sat down and wrote everything he knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShams al-Din al-Shahrazuri was a Kurdish thinker from a world on the edge of catastrophe - a student of the mystical philosophy of light, a cartographer of the entire Western and Islamic philosophical tradition, and a quiet revolutionary who believed that the deepest form of knowing had nothing to do with argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, historian and philosopher Narin Hikma brings Shahrazuri back to life: not as a historical curiosity, but as a living guide to the question every thoughtful person eventually faces - \u003ci\u003ehow do I trust what I know when I cannot prove it?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Shahrazuri's monumental works - his \u003ci\u003eNuzhat al-Arwah\u003c\/i\u003e (The Promenade of Souls), his masterful commentary on Suhrawardi's philosophy of light, and his intimate philosophical epistles - this book traces a mind that refused to choose between reason and mysticism, between Greek logic and Persian illumination, between the inherited and the experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Shahrazuri understood, and what this book recovers for modern readers, is a distinction that changes everything: the difference between \u003ci\u003eknowing about\u003c\/i\u003e and simply \u003ci\u003eknowing\u003c\/i\u003e. Between the knowledge that can be written in a book and the awareness that has never left you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Garden of Souls\u003c\/b\u003e is for anyone who has felt, at some quiet moment, that they understood something they could not explain - and wondered whether that understanding was real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is. It always was. Shahrazuri knew. Now you will too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882811113623,"sku":"9798195576042","price":1439.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195576042.webp?v=1781097220","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-garden-of-souls-how-a-forgotten-kurdish-philosopher-kept-wisdom-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world-9798195576042","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}