8vo. [3], 439 pp., cloth in d/w, title printed in Arabic & French, biblio, index, light foxing to outer edges otherwise copy clean inside & in very good condition, Recherches Publiées sous la direction de L’Institut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth, Premier Serie: Pensée Arabe et Islamique, No: XLIX, Dar el-Machreq, Editeurs, Beyrouth, second edition, 1991.

Synopsis

Paul Nwyia (1925-1980), an Iraqi clergy taught Islamic studies at the Institut de Lettres Orientale at Beirut. This work is an academic study in which the author discusses the language used by Muslim Sufi thinkers.