{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/6256f6595135380012d8fc9b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Al-Shushtari: Sufi Poet of the People","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/1649866253319-34522a31b718256db51fd5c47d58833f.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>As we continue our series on some of the less known (and sometimes controversial) Sufis of the Middle Ages, we reach the Andalusian poet Abu-l Hasan al-Shushtari. He was a student of Ibn Sab'in but is also famous as a master-poet and Sufi master in his own right.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Sources/Suggested Reading:</p><p>Alvarez, Lourdes Maria (2009). \"Abu-l Hasan al-Shushtari: Songs of Love and Devotion\". In the \"Classics of Western Spirituality\" series. Paulist Press.</p><p>Alvarez, Lourdes Maria (2005). \"The Mystical Language of Everyday Life\": Vernacular Sufi Poetry  and the Songs of Abu Al-Hasan Al-Shustari\". Exemplaria. 17:1, 1-32, DOI: 10.1179/exm.2005.17.1.1.</p><p>Johnson. N. Scott (1995). \"Ocean and Pearls: Ibn Sab'in, Shustari and the Doctrine of Absolute Unity\". In \"Sufi: Journal of Sufism\" Issue 25.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Filip Holm"}