Studies in Islamic Mysticism

Emphasizes the religious and philosophical aspects of Arabic and Persian writing of the early period, primarily poetry, with nearly a third of the volume devoted to Sufism. The importance of the volume lies in its masterful evocations of the Islamic mystical experience as the key to Islam itself.

Reynold A. Nicholson

CHAPTER I ABU SA'ID IBN ABI 'L-KHAYRCHAPTER II THE PERFECT MAN, ESSENCE, ATTRIBUTE, AND NAME, THE DESCENT OF THE ABSOLUTE, THE ESSENCE AS GOD, THE HEAVENLEY MAN, THE MACROCOSM, THE RETURN TO THE ESSENCE, RELIGION, REVELATION, AND PROPHECY, INDEX OF KAMES AND TITLES, INDEX OF SUBJECTS, INDEX OF TECHNICAL TERMS, ETC. CHAPTER III THE ODES OF IBNU 'L-FARID