THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM by R.A.Nicholson

THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM
By Reynold A. Nicholson-

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English Orientalist, lecturer in Persian and Arabic at Cambridge university, Reynold A. Nicholson was a foremost scholar in the field of Islamic literature and mysticism. He was a renowned author and recognized authority on Islam. His Literary of the Arabs (1907) remains a standard work on the subject in English, while his many text editions and translations of Sufi writings, culminating in his eight-volume Mathnawi of Jalalu’ddin Rumi, advanced the study of Muslim mystics to an eminent degree. He combined exact scholarship with notable literary gifts; some of his versions of Arabic and Persian poetry qualify him as a poet himself..******

Professor R.A. Nicholson's following par excellence book on Islamic Mysticism is A MUST READ for anyone interested in Sufis, Sufism, or Sufi related studies.

THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

I. THE PATH

II. ILLUMINATION AND ECSTASY

III. THE GNOSIS

IV. DIVINE LOVE

V. SAINTS AND MIRACLES

VI. THE UNITIVE STATE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX