10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KHIRKAH»
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khirkah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
khirkah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sufi Lighthouse: Illuminating Spiritual Abuse
He asked them -- 'if I were to give the khirkah to you, what would you do with it?'
Each of the four gave beautiful answers, but the answer which most pleased the
Prophet was the one given by Hazrat 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when ...
2
Journal of a Sufi Odyssey: A True Novel
... allegations of wrongdoing. Instead, what I found was a lot of vested interests of
other people who were seeking to gain control and have influence within the
silsilah -- one individual, for instance, who had gone to India and received a
khirkah ...
Shaykh Tariq Knecht, 2009
3
Sufis of Andalucia: The Ruh al-Quds and Al-Durat Fakhirah
3 khirqah or'ragged mantle' is the token of initiation intotheWay of the Sufis.
Initiation byalKhidr himselfisthe highestkind, which the author himself received.Cf
. Encyclopaediaof Islam, art.Khirkah. 4 The silsilahis the series of spiritualmasters
...
4
The Gulistān; or, Rose-garden, tr. by E.B. Eastwick
In person, Sadi was, as Ross conjectures, of a mean appearance, low of stature,
spare and slim. In the picture which Colonel Franklin saw of him, near his tomb,
he is represented as wearing the khirkah, or long blue gown of the darwesh, with
...
5
Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans, from the 16th to ...
... of disciples, to the humble kalandar, darwesh, or fakir, who wanders about
almost naked, or only clothed in his khirkah or cloak of rags, subsisting upon
scanty alms, to support this, voluntarily adopted, life of prayer and religious
abstraction.
6
The Illustrated London magazine, ed. by R.B. Knowles
... Colonel Franklin found him represented as wearing a dervish's khirkah, or long
blue gown,* with a pilgrim's start' in his hand. " I once, in the principal mosque of
Baalbek, addressed a few words, by way of exhortation, to a cold congregation, ...
7
The Works of Sir William Jones
... bedencsh gashtah kobk mzlzah dz cibilahi sad ber pa s/Im'ctnah asiz kha'ri
mughz'la'n hermitsh khirkah a'z rzigi biydba'n her dl'g/h ' gqft ca'i gomshua'ahi va'
diyi ghem hz'ch khwa'hi ceh temenndt dehem sh'fera'zat cunam a'z mienat o'ja'h
...
William Jones, Anna Maria Jones-Shipley, John Shore, 1807
... Colonel Franklin found him represented as wearing a dervish's khirkah, or long
blue gown,* with a pilgrim's staff in his hand. "I once, in the principal mosque of
Baalbek, addressed a few words, by way of exhortation, to a cold congregation, ...
ROGERSON AND TUXFORD, 1865
9
The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
... Sadi himself was a wandering derwish ; and in the picture adjoining his tomb,
Colonel Franklin found him represented as wearing a derwish's khirkah, or long
blue gown, * with a pilgrim's staff in his hand. enter into His presence, while those
...
10
The expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and ...
One chain takes a north-westerly direction, along the eastern side of the Halys, till
at length it joins the mountains of Angora beyond that river. Its principal peaks are
the Aka-juk Tagh, Haji-Bektash Tagh, rising to 3780 feet, Khirkah Tagh, 3095 ...
Francis Rawdon Chesney, 1850
