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Originally published in 1950.Thinkers such as Ghazali and Ibn `Arabi, poets such as Ibn al-Farid, Rumi, Hafiz and Jami were greatly inspired by the lives and sayings of the early Sufis. This book was the first short history of Sufism to be published in any language, illustrating the development of its doctrines with numerous quotations from literature.
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Index
Abbasid caliphs, 36, 46.
’Abd Allah al-Ansārī see al-Ansāri.
‘Abd Allah b. al-Mubārak, 40.
‘Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, 104-5.
’Abd al-Wahhāb al-Sha’rānī see al-Sha’rānī.
Abraham, 16, 19.
Abu ‘l-Abbās al-Qassāb, 84.
Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Rūdhabārī, 74.
Abū ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sulamī, 69-70, 74, 84.
Abū Bakr al-Kalābadhī, 69.
Abū Bakr al-Shiblī, 64.
Abū Bakr al-Wāsitī, 64.
Abu ‘1-Futūh, 86.
Abū Hāmid al-Ghazāll see al-Ghazālī.
Abū Hāshim’Uthmān b.’.Sharīk, 35.
Abu ‘1-Husain al-Nūrī, 61, 62-3.
Abū Muhammad al-Khuldī, 67.
Abū Najīb, 86.
Abū Nasr al-Sarrāj see al-Sarrāj.
Abū Nu’aim al-Isbāhanī, 70.
Abu ‘1-Qāsim al-Qushāirī see al-Qushairi.
Abū Sa’īd b. Abi ‘1-Khair, 73, 84.
Abū Sa’īd Ibn al-A’rābī, 66.
Abū Sulaimān al-Dārānī, 43.
Abū Tālib al-Makkī, 68-9.
Abū Yazīd, 54-5, 60, 64, 67.
Adam, 20-1.
Ahmad, 102.
Ahmad b.’Āsim al-Antākī, 31,43-4.
Ahmad b. Hanbal, 45, 46.
Ahmad b. ‘Īsā al-Kharrāz, 55-6.
Ahmad al-Tijānī, 128.
’Ā’isha, 29.
Algeria, 129.
’Alī Wahīsh, 120.
Amīr Khusrau, 115.
al-Ansārī, 69, 70, 71-3.
Ascent (of Muhammad), the, 28, 54.
Asceticism, 31 ff., 45.
‘Attār, 107-9, 115, 116.
Augustine, St., 82.
Badr, Battle of, 22.
al-Badr al-Hijāzī, 121.
Baghdad, 32, 45.
Bahā’ al-Dīn Zakarīyā’, 86.
balā’, 58.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- I. Introductory
- II. The Word of God
- III. The Life of The Prophet
- IV. The Ascetics
- V. The Mystics
- VI. The Theorists of Sufism
- VII. The Structure of Sufi Theory and Practice
- VIII. The Sufi Orders
- IX. The Theosophy of Islamic Mysticism
- X. The Persian Poets
- XI. The Decay of Sufism
- XII. Epilogue
- NOTES
- INDEX