Volume 3
Moral Healing Through the Most
Beautiful Names: The Practice of Spiritual Chivalry
By: Laleh Bakhtiar
Paperback 290pp,
The Institute of Traditional Psychoetics and Guidance, Chicago
Kazi Publications USA
Description
This work shows the traditional method of spiritual chivalry of assuming the
positive traits or virtues of God’s Most Beautiful Names. Known as moral
self-healing (attaining muruwwah), it occurs psychologically through three
stages referred to in this work as three parts. Part I, a translation of al-Ghazzali’s
work on the ninety-nine Names, shows Theoethics—the Most Beautiful Names as only
God can manifest them. This serves as the knowledge base. Part II, psychoethics
shows the traditional method of processing that knowledge. Part III—Socioethics—shows
the way to test the extent of having healed morally—through our actions and
improving our relations with others. Healing is effected through assuming God’s
Most Beautiful Names to the extent God’s Grace and our own endeavor allow.
About
Laleh Bakhtiar
A well-known author on Sufism, is the first person to unearth traditional
psychology which had been buried in medieval philosophy. With this work she
shows that traditional psychology is alive and vibrant and should be an
alternative psychology to modern schools as the stress is upon morality and
ethics.She is a nationally certified and licensed psychotherapist.
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