Mystical dimensions of Islam
Annemarie Schimmel (Author), Carl W. Ernst
Thirty-five years after its original publication, Mystical Dimensions of Islam still stands as the most valuable introduction to Sufism, the main form of Islamic mysticism. This edition brings to a new generation of readers Annemarie Schimmel's historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism, from its beginnings through the nineteenth century.
Print Book, English, ©2011
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University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2011
xxvii, 512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807899762, 0807899763
1038597567
The Arabic alphabet and note on transcription
The Muslim year
1. What is Sufism?
2. Historical outlines of classical Sufism
3. The path
4. Man and his perfection
5. Sufi orders and fraternities
6. Theosophical Sufism
7. The rose and the nightingale : Persian and Turkish mystical poetry
8. Sufism in Indo-Pakistan
9. Epilogue
Appendix 1. Letter symbolism in Sufi literature
Appendix 2. The feminine element in Sufism
Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1975. With new foreword