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| #1791655 in Books | 2002-05-28 | 2002-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.33 x5.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 260 pages | Ships from Vermont||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An Experience In Itself|By Dawoud Kringle|I read this book while observing the fast of Ramadan. The first half of the book wherein the author takes us on a day by day account of a spiritual retreat, seemed oddly in sync with what I was experiencing with the privations that Ramadan imposes upon those who observe it. I found the whole of the author's experiences eloquent and inst||"This is a superb book. I felt as if I were with Özelsel in her cell throughout the forty days, journeying with her doubts, cries, and torment in not knowing what was happening in the world outside while feeling the compassionate words of Rumi, Ibn 'Arabi
This is a woman's firsthand account of a Sufi halvet, a forty-day retreat conducted in complete isolation, along with strict fasting from sunrise to sundown. Voluntarily confined to a sparsely furnished room amid the bustle of Istanbul, Michaela Özelsel will occupy her time with reading the Qur'an and works of Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and with praying and practicing the powerful Sufi exercise known as zhikr, the rhythmic repetition of names of God or other...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Forty Days | Michaela M Ozelsel. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
