CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- THE ARABIC ALPHABET AND NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION -- THE MUSLIM YEAR -- 1. WHAT IS SUFISM? -- 2. HISTORICAL OUTLINES OF CLASSICAL SUFISM -- The Formative Period -- Some Mystical Leaders of the Late Ninth Century -- Al-Hallaj, Martyr of Mystical Love -- The Period of Consolidation: From Shibli to Ghazzali -- 3. THE PATH -- The Foundations of the Path -- Stations and Stages -- Love and Annihilation -- 4. MAN AND HIS PERFECTION -- Some Notes on Sufi Psychology -- Good and Evil: The Role of Satan -- Saints and Miracles -- The Veneration of the Prophet -- 5. SUFI ORDERS AND FRATERNITIES -- Community Life -- Abu Sa'id ibn Abi'l-Khayr -- The First Orders -- 6. THEOSOPHICAL SUFISM -- Suhrawardi Maqtul, the Master of Illumination -- Ibn 'Arabi, the Great Master -- Ibn al-Farid, Mystical Poet -- The Development of Ibn 'Arabi's Mysticism of Unity -- 7. THE ROSE AND THE NIGHTINGALE: PERSIAN AND TURKISH MYSTICAL POETRY -- Immortal Rose -- The Pilgrimage of the Birds: Sana'i and 'Attar -- Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi -- Turkish Popular Mysticism -- 8. SUFISM IN INDO - PAKISTAN -- The Classical Period -- The "Naqshbandi Reaction" -- Khwaja Mir Dard, a "Sincere Muhammadan" -- Mystical Poetry in the Regional Languages-Sindhi, Panjabi, Pashto -- 9. EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX 1 Letter Symbolism in Sufi Literature -- APPENDIX 2 The Feminine Element in Sufism -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDENDUM TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF KORANIC QUOTATIONS -- INDEX OF PROPHETIC TRADITIONS -- INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.