Cyrus Ali Zargar

About The Author

Cyrus Ali Zargar is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, where his primary research interest is the literature of medieval Sufism in Arabic and Persian.

Books by Cyrus Ali Zargar

Polished Mirror

Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism

By Cyrus Ali Zargar
Islamic philosophy and Sufism evolved as distinct yet interweaving strands of Islamic thought and practice. Despite differences, they have shared a concern with the perfection of the soul through the development of character. In The Polished Mirror, Cyrus Ali Zargar studies the ways in which, thr...
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