| Place of Publication | London, England : |
| Publisher's Name | Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, |
| Date of Publication | 1992 |
| Extent | xx, 436p. |
| Other Details | bibliography, footnotes, 22 illustrations, indexed |
| Item Descriptor | Specifically devoted to the classical era of Sufism these essays trace its renaissance from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of 15th centuries and illuminate the key role played by Sufism in the literary and intellectual culture of Islam |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include – Introduction – Persian Sufi literature – its spiritual and cultural significance/ Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Overview – Iranian Islam and Persianate Sufism/ Leonard Lewisohn; Yūsuf in Mawlānā Rumi’s poetry/ Annemarie Schimmel; Ecstasy and order – two structural principles in the Ghazal Poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi/ Johann Christoph Bürgel; The Qlandariyyāt in Persian mystical poetry, from Sanā’ī onwards/ J T P De Bruijin; The Hurūfī legacy of Fadlullāh of Astarābad/ H T Norris; Diverse tastes in spiritual life – textual play in the diffusion of Rumi’s order/ Victoria Holbrook; Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadāni and Kubrawī hagiographical traditions/ Devin DeWeese; Authority and miraculous behavior – reflections on Karāmāt stories of Khwāja ‘Ubaydullāh Ahrār/ Jo-Ann Gross; Shāh Ni’matullāh Wali – founder of the Ni’mantullāhī Sufi order/ Terry Graham; Sufism in Sa’di, and Sa’di on Sufism/ Homa Katouzian; Spectrums of Islamic thought – Sa’id al-Dīn Farghānī on the implications of oneness and manyness/ William C Chittick; The Futūhāt Makkiyya and its commentators – some unresolved enigmas/ Michel Chodkiewicz; The Sophianic feminine in the work of Ibn ‘Arabī and Rumi/ R J W Austin; The Neoplatonic substrate of Suhrawardī’s philosophy of illumination – Falsafa as Taṣawwuf / Ian Richard Netton; The dawning places of the lights of certainty in the divine secrets connected with the commander of the faithful by Rajab Bursi/ B Todd Lawson; What is Sufi music?/ Jean During; A Kubrawī manual of Sufism – the Fusūs al-ādāb of Yahyā Bākharzi/ Muhammad Isa Waley; The importance of the spiritual guide in the Naqshbandī order/ Johan Ter Haar; A Sufi scientist of the thirteenth century – the mystical ideas and practices of Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī/ John T Walbridge; “Mysteries of marriage’’ – notes on the Sufi text/ Sachiko Murata; The symbolism of birds and flight - in writings of Rūzbihān Baqlī/ Carl W Ernst; ‘Abd al-Rahman Chishtī and the Bhagavadgita – ‘Unity of religion’ theory in practice/ Roderic Vassie; and The transcendental unity of polytheism and monotheism in the Sufism of Shabistarī/ Leonard Lewisohn |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Sufism - Iran
Sufism - History
Sufi literature - History and criticism
Islamic civilisation
Iran - History |
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