Shaman, Saiva and Sufi — R.O. Winstedt — A 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-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali's accessible guide to the spiritual life, distilling his masterwork the Ihya into practical wisdom.
The Book of Walad — The complete Valadnama (Book of Walad) of Sultan Walad (1226–1312 CE), eldest son and spiritual successor of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Mathnawi-i Waladi, composed c. 1291 CE in Konya — 171 sections, ~17,700 verses of Classical Persian poetry and prose recording the spiritual history of Rumi's circle. The first complete English translation of the Valadnama. Translated from the Persian source preserved in the Ganjoor digital library.
The Enclosed Garden of the Truth — Sanai — The first major Sufi mathnavi poem, a philosophical meditation on divine unity by the pioneer of Persian mystical verse.
The Gulistan — Saadi — The Rose Garden of Saadi, a masterpiece of Persian literature combining moral tales, poetry, and philosophical wisdom.
The Kashf al-Mahjub — Hujwiri — The oldest Persian treatise on Sufism — Ali ibn Uthman al-Hujwiri, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson (Gibb Memorial, 1911)
The Kasidah — Burton — Sir Richard Burton's philosophical poem in the style of the Arabic qasida, meditating on fate, faith, and human destiny.
The Mystics of Islam — Nicholson — A systematic introduction to Sufism by one of the foremost Western scholars of Islamic mysticism.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Fitzgerald — Edward 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 Tarjuman al-Ashwaq — Ibn Arabi — A collection of 61 mystical love odes by the great Sufi metaphysician Muhyi'ddin Ibn al-'Arabi, with his own commentary revealing the esoteric meaning of each verse. Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, 1911.
The Teachings of Hafiz — Bell — Selected poems of Hafiz, the supreme lyric poet of Persian literature, rendered into English by Gertrude Bell.