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Tamam Kahn's poetry carries bright exuberance, as well as empathy and sorrow. Her work is inspired by the mystical Middle East, and her time in Morocco and Syria. The poems are anchored with her research on women from early Islam to today. Anecdotes from history are mixed with today's unchosen difficulties. The reader is introduced to the remarkable Rabia of Basra (Rabi'a al-Adawiyya), eighth-century leader on the path of Unity of Being. What would it be like to meet with her today? Across the Difficult presents tales of other famous mothers such as Eve (known as Grandmother Eve in Arabia), Hagar, Sayyida Zaynab-granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad, her niece Ruqayya, and Fatima al-Fihri, founder of the great Qarawiyyin University, who changed history with her life's work. The brutal difficulties of living at this time in countries such as Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine and other countries, are included in the final poems.Winner of The BookFest First Place award for Poetry, Spring 2024, and an International Book Award, 2024

In Mirror of Love, Sufi teacher, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez, the head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism, offers us a collection of 'glosses' or 'inspirations' based on the mysterious Sufi treatise on mystical love called the Sovāneḥ by Aḥmad Ghazzalī, the founder of the mazhab-i 'eshq, the 'school of love' in Sufism. This first volume, Book I: Inspirations, contains the complete collection of seventy-seven glosses with a prologue, and will be followed by two further volumes of commentary

The Song of Songs (Shir HaShirim) is among the most beloved books of the Hebrew Bible, beloved both for the beauty of its language and for the mystical ideas it has inspired. However, many new readers may be surprised to learn that-while it is often understood as an allegory for the relationship between God (the Bridegroom) and humanity (the Bride)-it has no explicit religious content whatsoever and actually seems to celebrate erotic love. In this new translation, Netanel Miles-Yépez, attempts to emphasize the "earthy immediacy" of the original Hebrew, wishing the Song of Songs to stand on its own as "love poetry," arguing that the mystical poetry and insights about Divine Love it has inspired actually come from an engagement with the raw imagery of human love. Also included are translations of the mystical poetry of Juan de la Cruz, Elazar Azikri, and Shlomo Halevi Alakabetz from the Spanish and Hebrew. "Netanel Miles-Yépez' translations soar with the erotic ecstasy of holy desire, reminding us that knowing God isn't only a matter of emptying out, but also a matter of merging with. His Song sings, and invites you to sing along."-Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Embracing the Divine Feminine: Song of Songs Annotated and Explained"Trust a contemplative to translate a deeply mystical text; better yet, a contemplative with literary ability. Netanel Miles-Yépez combines these and other talents to illuminate the eternally fascinating Song of Songs."- Sheikh Kabir Helminski, author of The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation, and translator of Rumi

The Bowl of Saqi is a collection of 366 aphorisms (first published in England in late 1921 or early 1922) to be used as themes for meditation for each day of the year. These aphorisms were selected from the teachings of the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) by his disciples, many of them coming from his lectures and personal notebooks. The Bowl of Saqi is a treasured resource of spiritual inspiration for Inayati Sufis everywhere.

In God Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown, Netanel Miles-Yépez and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi offer little-known stories of the famous kabbalist, Isaac Luria, and explore the profound implications of the kabbalistic idea of Tzimtzum, the 'contraction' of God that allows for creation through different paradigms of Jewish belief over the centuries, and look at its function in Judaism and Jewish practice today.