Sea Without Shore A Manual of the Sufi Path

Sea Without Shore is a practical manual
for those travelling the path of Sufism
or Islamic mysticism, which strives,
in Junayd's words, "to separate the
Beginninglessly Eternal from that
which originates in time," in a word,
to be with the Divine without
any relation.
The book opens with narratives
of five Sufis met by the author in
Syria, Jordan, and Turkey whose
lives exemplified the knowledge and
practice of the Sufi path.
The second part is a complete
handbook of the method and rule
of the Shadhili order of Sufism,
transmitted to the author by his
spiritual mentor, Sheikh 'Abd
al-Rahman al-Shaghouri--from
devotions, dhikr or 'invocation,'
and metaphysical doctrine, to how
a Sufi lives, marries, and earns a living
in the modern world.
A third part treats wider theological
questions such as other faiths and
mysticisms, universalism and the
finality of Islam, the promise of God
to Jews and Christians, evolution and
religion, and divine Wisdom and
Justice in the face of human suffering.
The book provides an indelible
portrait of a vibrant mystical tradition
spanning seven and a half centuries
of endeavor to know the Divine
face-to-face.
Sheikh Nuh Keller was born in the US in 1954. He read philosophy and classical Arabic at the University of Chicago and UCLA, and became a Muslim in Cairo in 1977.
He was authorized as a sheikh in
the Shadhili order by Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman in 1996 and is the leading authority on traditional Islam in the West. He has studied jurisprudence, hadith, and other
subjects with traditional scholars, produced Reliance of the
Traveller, the 1st translation of a
standard Islamic legal reference in a
English to be certified by
al-Azhar, the Muslim world's oldest
institution of higher learning. Among
his other works and translations are
Sufism in Islam, al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, Port in a Storm, and an illuminated calligraphic edition of Dala'il al-Khayrat.