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Title: Mystics and Saints of Islam

Author: Claud Field

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Language: English

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MYSTICS AND SAINTS
OF ISLAM

BY

CLAUD FIELD

LONDON:
FRANCIS GRIFFITHS,
34 MAIDEN LANE, STRAND, W.C.
1910.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. PANTHEISTIC SUFISM 1

II. HASAN BASRI 18

III. RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI 28

IV. IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM 36

V. FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ 46

VI. BAYAZID BASTAMI 52

VII. ZU'N NUN OF EGYPT 60

VIII. MANSUR HALLAJ 68

IX. HABIB AJAMI 79

X. AVICENNA (IBN SINA) 86

XI. AL GHAZZALI 106

XII. FARIDUDDIN ATTAR 123

XIII. SUHRAWARDY 141

XIV. JALALUDDIN RUMI 148

XV. SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN 164

XVI. MULLAH SHAH 174

APPENDIX I. MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS 192

" II. EXPOSITION OF SUFISM 196

" III. CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN
MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE 202

" IV. CHRIST IN MOHAMMEDAN TRADITION 208

PREFACE

It is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as
merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in
it. But however much