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This is one of those rare books that unite two distinct approaches to the spiritual quest?devotional love and esoteric scholarship?through both the person and the teachings of its author. This book gives the reader a detailed description of the living practice of Sufism. Dr. Nurbakhsh describes what is involved in traveling the Sufi path and explains the five essential principles put into practice by the traveler: * zekr (remembrance) * fekr (contemplation) * moraqaba (meditation) * mohasaba (self-examination) * verd (invocation). The final chapter is entitled "Rules and Manners of Initiation into the Sufi path".