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Sufi

Sufi poetry, doctrine, devotional practice, saints, orders, ecstatic utterance, and Islamic mystical literature across languages.

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Texts

GlossaryA shelf-specific glossary starter for the Sufi shelf.Introduction to SufismA high-register doorway to the Sufi shelf: Islamic heart-discipline, Baghdad sobriety and ecstasy, Persian poetry, orders, sainthood, translation problems, and the public reading path through the archive.Reader's Guide to SufiA source-conscious reading map through the Sufi shelf: Islamic discipline, early Arabic manuals, Persian and Turkish poetry, contested utterance, translation, and reception.
Attar10 pages
General Texts24 pages
Hallaj5 pages

Works by and attributed to Mansur al-Hallaj: Arabic mystical poetry, prose treatises, divine unity, annihilation, paradox, prophecy, Iblis, and unknowability.

Hamadani1 page
Junaid6 pages
Khaqani1 page
Makki2 pages
Muhasibi2 pages
Rumi5 pages
Sanai5 pages

Good Works translations of Books II-VI of Hakim Sanai's Hadiqa al-Haqiqa, with the public boundary stated plainly.

Sulami1 page
Tamil Sufi Literature2 pages

Tamil Sufi and Tamil Muslim devotional literature: the songs of Tamil walīs and the poems of the Nagore shrine, translated from the Tamil.

Turkish Sufi Literature3 pages

Turkish Sufi, Alevi-Bektashi, Anatolian, poetic, devotional, and vernacular Islamic literature.