Titus Burckhardt
Tayyeb Chouiref

Some English excerpts of the French edition by Editions Tasnim, Titus Burckhardt: Le soufisme entre orient et occident.

The two men of the same generation exchanged anecdotes on Sufi masters of their youth and wise evocations on the beauties and virtues of Shadhilite brotherhoods as well as the methodical invocation of divine Names. The elevated and subtle level of their exchanges on fikr (meditation) and dhikr (invocation) as well as their language was only half-comprehensible to me, but the baraka that came out of it was powerful and continuous. They left each other with accolades and ritual greetings of collegial brothers and on the return a great, profound silence and marvellous proximity reigned between us in the car.

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