Tuesday, April 28, 2026 · 天火 · tianmu.org
Sufi
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Texts
A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty — Inayat KhanA foundational text of Western Sufism by the Indian musician-mystic who brought Sufi teachings to the West.Bird Parliament — Attar (Fitzgerald)Attar's allegorical Sufi poem of the birds' journey to find the Simurgh, rendered by Edward Fitzgerald.Shaman, Saiva and Sufi — R.O. WinstedtA study of the evolution of Malay magic (1925) by R.O. Winstedt, tracing the development of animistic, Hindu, and Islamic magical practices in the Malay Peninsula.The Alchemy of Happiness — al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali's accessible guide to the spiritual life, distilling his masterwork the Ihya into practical wisdom.The Enclosed Garden of the Truth — SanaiThe first major Sufi mathnavi poem, a philosophical meditation on divine unity by the pioneer of Persian mystical verse.The Gulistan — SaadiThe Rose Garden of Saadi, a masterpiece of Persian literature combining moral tales, poetry, and philosophical wisdom.The Kasidah — BurtonSir Richard Burton's philosophical poem in the style of the Arabic qasida, meditating on fate, faith, and human destiny.The Maqamat — al-HamadhaniThe picaresque tales of Abu'l-Fath al-Iskandari, a masterpiece of medieval Arabic literary prose.The Mystics of Islam — NicholsonA systematic introduction to Sufism by one of the foremost Western scholars of Islamic mysticism.The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — FitzgeraldEdward Fitzgerald's 1859 English rendering of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam — the Persian polymath-poet whose verses on fate, wine, impermanence, and the inscrutability of Heaven became, through Fitzgerald's transformation, one of the most quoted poems in the English language.The Secret Rose Garden — ShabistariA mystical Sufi poem exploring the nature of God, the soul, and the path to divine union.The Teachings of Hafiz — BellSelected poems of Hafiz, the supreme lyric poet of Persian literature, rendered into English by Gertrude Bell.