Reading list 'Introduction to Sufism (Islamic Mysticism) '

  1. And Muhammad is his messenger : the veneration of the Prophet in Islamic piety - Schimmel, Annemarie,
  2. Celebrating the prophet in the remembrance of God : Sufi dhikr in Egypt. -
  3. Dreams, Sufism, and sainthood : the visionary career of Muhammad al-Zawâwî - Katz, Jonathan Glustrom.
  4. Ibn ʻArabi in the later Islamic tradition : the making of a polemical image in medieval Islam - Knysh, Alexander D.
  5. Islamic mysticism : a short history - Knysh, Alexander.
  6. Islamic mysticism contested : thirteen centuries of controversies and polemics -
  7. Mystical dimensions of Islam - Schimmel, Annemarie,
  8. Mystical languages of unsaying - Sells, Michael Anthony.
  9. Principles of Sufism - Qushayrī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin,
  10. Reading mystical lyric : the case of Jalal al-Din Rumi - Keshavarz, Fatemeh,
  11. Realm of the saint : power and authority in Moroccan Sufism - Cornell, Vincent J.
  12. Rumi : past and present, east and west : the life, teaching and poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi - Lewis, Franklin,
  13. Sufis and anti-Sufis : the defense, rethinking and rejection of sufism in the modern world - Sirriyeh, Elizabeth.
  14. Teachings of Sufism -
  15. The Shambhala guide to sufism - Ernst, Carl W.,
  16. The doctrine of the Ṣūfis. Kitāb al-taʻarruf li-madhhab ahl al-taṣawwuf. - Kalābādhī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm,
  17. The green sea of heaven : fifty ghazals from the Díwán of Ḥáfiẓ - Ḥāfiẓ,
  18. The kashful mahjub : "unveiling the veiled" : the earliest Persian treatise on Sufism - Hujvīrī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān,
  19. The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return = (Merṣād al-ʻebād men al-mabdāʼ elāʼl-maʻād) : a Sufi compendium - Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad,
  20. The secret of secrets - ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī,
  21. The throne carrier of God : the life and thought of ʻAlāʼ ad-Dawla as-Simnānī - Elias, Jamal J.
  22. What is Sufism? - Lings, Martin