The Heritage of Sufism

The Heritage of Sufism

Sufism -- Iran -- History
Islamic civilization
Sufi literature -- History and criticism
Iran -- History -- 640-

v. 3: Interest in Sufism in the West has increased through the magic of the poetry of Rumi and other Persian mystics. This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating on the common Persianate Sufi tradition shared by both the society and learned elite.

Oxford ; Boston, MA : Oneworld

edited by Leonard Lewisohn

3 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm.

vol. 1: Classical Persian Sufism from its origins to Rumi (700-1300) --
vol. 2: The legacy of medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500)
vol. 3: Late classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750).

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