Alchemy of Meanings and Happiness: Practical Ethical Spiritual Sufi Stories Today
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 144
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 144
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This book can be a valuable supplementary text in the disciplines of psychology, counseling, anthropology, philosophy, and religion. The stories have been compiled and contemporized from ethnographic field work in different Muslim communities of New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Toronto, Istanbul, and Cairo. The short stories and anecdotes in this book can bring important and practical aspects of these teachings in our practical life. This book can be valuable for different level readers such as the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and people who especially value spirituality and experiential knowledge and believe the mysteries of life beyond the seen and human control.
Alchemy of Meanings and Happiness: Practical Ethical Spiritual Sufi Stories Today is for:
- Christians
- Muslims
- Jews
- Buddhists
- Hindus
- Everyone who values the deeper meanings
Preface
1. Ant and the Sufi
2. One Dollar Coffee Machine
3. Coffee Machine and Serving
4. Cookies and Scripture
5. Sufi Argues with His Wife
6. The Best Voice
7. Looking at the Mirror
8. Sufi and Value of the Book
9. Evil and the Sufi
10. Number of Angels and the Sufi
11. The Door and the Responsibility
12. Death and the Sufi
13. Coffee Machine and Generosity
14. Sufi and His Sufi Mother
15. Sufi and Garlic
16. Sufi and the Elevator
17. Sufi and His Father
18. Sufi and Serving
19. Sufi and Serving Coffee
20. Sufi and Her Pocket
21. Sufi and Oranges in His Pocket
22. Sufi and People’s Jealousy
23. The Sufi and the Trip
24. When and Where to Die and the Sufi
25. Sufi and the Bitterness and Sweetness
26. Sufi and Hiding
27. Heart and the Sufi
28. The Sufi and the Sunglasses
29. The Sufi on the Beaches of Miami
30. Sufi and Eating
31. Sufi Who Talks a Lot When He Is at Fault
32. Death and the Sufi
33. Being Lonely Among the Sufis
34. Backbiting and Arguing
35. Silence and the Sufi
36. The External and the Daytime
37. The Internal and the Night
38. Required Divorce
39. Two Cats and the Sufi
40. Cat, Mouse, and the Sufi
41. Sufi and the Professor
42. Evil and the Pregnancy
43. Bad Word and the Sufi
44. Bad Smell and Thinking
45. Shouting and the Sufi
46. Glass Cup and the Sufi Teacher
47. Sufi and the Ocean
48. Man with One Leg and Man with One Eye
49. Sufi and the Eyeglasses
50. The Ant and the Carpet
51. Sufi and the Right Answer
52. Sufi and Choosing His Prospective Wife
53. Sufi and Not Flying
54. Sufi and Burping
55. King and the Sufi
56. Sufi, Change, and God
57. Sufi and the Preface of a Book
58. Sufi and the Satan
59. Sufi and the Handyman
60. The Sufi and the Questions
61. The Funny Handyman and the Sufi
62. Sufi and the Deaf Man
63. Sufi Teacher and the Kids
64. Sufi and the Literalist
65. Sufi and Different Languages
66. Sufi and Her Book
67. Sufi and Phrases on the Tongue
68. Sufi and the Huffing and Puffing Handyman
69. The Lucky Sufi
70. Sufi and the Magic
71. Milk, Pee, and the Sufi
72. Rotation of the Days and the Sufi
73. Sufi and Her Book
74. Sufi and Two Cases
75. Third World Countries and the Sufi
76. Communication with the Unknowns and Unseen
77. The Sufi and the Pancreatic Cancer
78. Sufi and Her Teacher
79. The Rich Sufi and His Teacher’s Food
80. The Teacher and Humbleness
81. Sufi and the Hindu
82. Sufi and the Safety
83. Sufi and the Escort
84. Firefighters, Roof Rats, and the Sufis
85. The Rich Sufi, Online Shopping, and the Poor Sufi
86. Sufi and Temporary Things
87. Sufi Teacher and the Clock
88. Sufi and Perception
89. Now I Understood! and the Sufi
90. The Level of Union and the Evil
91. The Uber Driver, Cursing, and the Coffee
92. The Crying Boy and the Sufi
93. The Huffing and Puffing Man and the Sufi
94. Sufi, Cat, and the Natural Habitat
95. Rain Drops and the Sufi
96. Focused Eating and the Sufi
97. The Nice Flower and the Eye
98. The Marriage Problem and the Sufi
99. The Fried Chicken, the Mother, and the Sufi
100. Eating Meat and the Sufi
101. Cat and the Garage Door
102. The Sufi and Understanding His Wife
103. “Staying Out of Trouble” and the Sufi
104. The Sufi, Child, and Disturbance
105. The Sufi and the Floating Wood Log on the Sea
106. The Sufi and the Cat in the Hood of the Car
107. Final Stage of the Fireworks and the Sufi
108. The Sufi and the Oppression
109. Crying, Child, and the Sufi
110. The Sufi, Body, and Mindfulness
111. Art of Living and the Sufi
Bibliography
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Dr. Y. Jonah Kumek is currently the Religious Studies Coordinator at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo State. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in religious studies at SUNY Buffalo State, Niagara University, and Daemen College. His research interests include scriptural analysis, anthropology of religion and mysticism. Before becoming interested in religious studies, Dr. Kumek was doing his doctorate degree in physics at SUNY at Buffalo and published academic papers in the areas of quantum and medical physics. He then decided to engage with the world of social sciences through cultural anthropology. Later, he published a book about different cultures and beliefs of international teachers in America while he was a research associate in the anthropology department of the same university. Recently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Divinity School and published a book on religious literacy through ethnography. Dr. Kumek, who remains interested in physics—he solves physics problems to relax—enjoys working with different languages: German, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Turkish and Spanish, especially in his research of scriptural analysis. He also takes great pleasure in classical mystical poetry. He will be a visiting scholar in the Spring of 2018 at Harvard Divinity School.