Studies in Islamic Mysticism

A scholarly but readable study of three major figures not otherwise represented in this catalog: the ecstatic Persian Abu Sa'id, the metaphysician Al-Jili, and the Egyptian poet-mystic Ibn al-Farid, whose great mystical Odes are translated in full.

About this edition

This Hidden Lantern edition of Studies in Islamic Mysticism is set from R. A. Nicholson’s translation, re-typeset for readability with corrected text, modernised layout, and endnotes linked in the digital editions. It runs to 413 pages in print.

Reynold A. Nicholson (1868–1945) was Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge and the most influential English translator of Sufi literature of his generation. His editions remain standard reference points a century later.

Contents

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1. STUDIES IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM
2. CHAPTER I ABÚ SA‘ÍD IBN ABI ’L-KHAYR
3. CHAPTER II THE PERFECT MAN
4. THE PERFECT MAN (continued)
5. THE TÁ’IYYA (iii) — vv. 400–599
6. CHAPTER III THE ODES OF IBNU ’L-FÁRIḌ
7. THE TÁ’IYYA (i) — vv. 1–199
8. THE TÁ’IYYA (ii) — vv. 200–399
9. THE TÁ’IYYA (iv) — vv. 600–761
10. THE ARGUMENT OF THE TÁ’IYYA
11. APPENDIX I — JÍLÍ’S ‘AYNIYYA
12. APPENDIX II — SOME NOTES ON THE FUṢÚṢU ’L-ḤIKAM
13. ABOUT THIS EDITION

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