THE TAO OF ISLAM: TUHAN DALAM PANDANGAN SUFI – Sachiko Murata

The Tao of Islam is a complete and rich anthology in the field of Islamic thought about the nature of the relationship between God and the universe, the universe and humans, and humans and God. By focusing on gender symbolism, Sachiko Murata—a Japanese Muslim woman who currently serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook—shows that classical Muslim thinkers often analyzed the reality of divinity and its relationship to the cosmos and humans through the principles of polarity or complementarity, which are very similar to the Chinese philosophical idea of ​​yin/yang.

Murata believes that the unity of Islamic thought can be found in an understanding of the types of relationships that exist in reality. He paid special attention to the views of various figures known as “sufis” and “philosophers,” because their approach to these topics had a flexibility and subtlety not found in other groups of thinkers. In this book, we can find hundreds of quotes from the classic works of important Muslim thinkers such as Ikhwan Al-Shafa, Ibn Sina, and Ibn Arabi, many of which are being translated for the first time here.