Sufism, the mystical movement within Islam, has, in a thousand years of history has powerfully influenced the life, art and literature of the Muslim peoples. It has supplied the element of personal devotion and direct apprehension of Divine Realities which the more formal and practical character of orthodox ritual tended to overshadow.
Originally published between 1950 and 1987, the volumes in this mini-set include works by A J Arberry, Henry Corbin, Rom Landau, Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Volume 1: Rumi the Persian/A Reza Arasteh
Volume 2: Muslim Saints & Mystics/Farid al-Din Attar, translated by A J Arberry
Volume 3: Sufism: an account of the mystic/A J Arberry
Volume 4: The Sufis of Andalucia/R W J Austin
Volume 5: The Darvishes or Oriental Spiritualism/ John Porter Brown, edited by H A Rose
Volume 6: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi/Henry Corbin, translation by Ralph Manheim
Volume 7: The Philosophy of Ibn Arabi/Rom Landau
Volume 8: Islamic Spirituality: Foundations/Edited by Seyyed, Hossein Nasr
Volume 9: The Sufi Ship of Sulaiman/Muhammad Rabi ibn Muhammad Ibrahim, translated by John O’Kane
Volume 10: Oriental Mysticism: A Treatise on the Sufistic and unitarian theosophy of the Persians/E H Palmer
