The Taste of Hidden Things: Images of the Sufi Path

by Sara Sviri

The work of The Golden Sufi Center is to make available the teachings of the Sufi path.

Genres: Nonfiction, Spirituality

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

In The Taste of Hidden Things, Sara Sviri very helpfully synthesizes early and contemporary guidance on Sufism. Her extensive work on al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī is supplemented with infusion of Schimmel’s Mystical Dimensions and quotations from Rumi including work by Chittick and others. The book effectively builds to the source and essence of the mystical pathway: “Mystics and lovers know that, in order to resurrect the soul’s primordial proximity to God while on the earthly plane—and without this the soul will not be able to make its way back home—a faculty other than the mind is required, another, subtler body of perception and knowledge. This subtle body is the heart” (p. 202). Sviri explicates and illustrates the pathway affirming the place of longing between the human and the Beloved.