Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the life and works of the Sufi masters
* Wide range of Sufi authors over a millennia, including Rumi, Hafiz, Jami, Saadi and Zeb-un-Nissa
* Features rare translations
* Concise introductions to the works
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features a bonus Resources section, with three major works on the history and development of Sufi literature — discover the ancient world of the Sufis!
* Ordering of texts into chronological order
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Kashf al-Mahjub by Ali al-Hujwiri (c. 1070) (tr. Reynold A. Nicholson)
The Alchemy of Happiness (c. 1105) by Al-Ghazzali (tr. Claud Field)
Book I of ‘The Enclosed Garden of the Truth’ (1131) by Sanai (tr. J. Stephenson)
Bird Parliament (c. 1177) by Attar of Nishapur (tr. Edward FitzGerald)
Interpreter of Desires (1215) by Ibn Arabi (tr. Reynold A. Nicholson)
The Gulistan (1258) by Saadi (tr. Edwin Arnold)
The Masnavi (1273) by Rumi (tr. Edward Henry Whinfield)
The Secret Rose Garden (c. 1311) by Mahmoud Shabestari (tr. Florence Lederer)
The Divan (c. 1368) by Hafiz (tr. Herman Bicknell)
Songs of Kabir (c. 1450) (tr. Rabindranath Tagore)
Salaman and Absal (c. 1490) by Jami (tr. Edward Fitzgerald)
Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans (c. 1550) (tr. H. G. Raverty)
The Diwan (1702) by Zeb-un-Nissa (tr. Magan Lal and Duncan Westbrook)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) by Sir Richard Burton
The Secrets of the Self (1915) by Muhammad Iqbal (tr. Reynold A. Nicholson)
The Resources
Oriental Mysticism (1867) by E. H. Palmer
Mystics and Saints of Islam (1910) by Claud Field
The Mystics of Islam (1914) by Reynold A. Nicholson
