Mystics and Saints of Islam

About this eBook

Author

Field, Claud, 1863-1941

Credits

Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BP: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Islam, Bahaism, Theosophy, Other and new beliefs

Subject

Sufism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24314

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24314

Release Date

January 15, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM — CONTENTS. — PREFACE — CHAPTER I — PANTHEISTIC SUFISM 5 — II.— EARLIER PHASES — III.— THE LOVE OF GOD AND ECSTASY — CHAPTER II — HASAN BASRI 8 (d 728 ad) — CHAPTER III — RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI — CHAPTER IV — IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM PRINCE OF BALKH (d 875) — CHAPTER V — FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ, THE HIGHWAYMAN (d 803 ad) — CHAPTER VI — BAYAZID BASTAMI (d 874 ad) — CHAPTER VII — ZU'N NUN OF EGYPT (d 860 ad) — CHAPTER VIII — MANSUR HALLAJ (d 922 ad) — CHAPTER IX — HABIB AJAMI (d 773 ad) — CHAPTER X — AVICENNA (IBN SINA) (ad 980-1037) — "THE SOUL. — CHAPTER XI — AL GHAZZALI (ad 1058—1111) — CHAPTER XII — FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (ad 1119-1229) — story of the sheikh sanaan. — the angel gabriel and the infidel. — the clay of which man is made. — the dead criminal. — anecdote of bayazid bastami. — CHAPTER XIII — SUHRAWARDY 54 (1153-1191 ad) — CHAPTER XIV — JALALUDDIN RUMI — CHAPTER XV — SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN (ad 1550) — CHAPTER XVI — MULLAH SHAH (d 1661) — APPENDIX I — MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS — APPENDIX II — A MOHAMMEDAN EXPOSITION OF SUFISM BY IBN KHALDOUN — APPENDIX III — CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE — APPENDIX IV — CHRIST IN MODAMMEDAN TRADITION.

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