Mystical dimensions of Islam /? by Annemarie Schimmel

Title

• Mystical dimensions of Islam / by Annemarie Schimmel.

Author

• Schimmel, Annemarie, 1922-2003, (author.)

Other Authors

• ebrary, Inc.

Published

• Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, ©1975.
• Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1975.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• online resource

Physical Description

• 1 online resource (xxi, 512 pages) : illustrations, portrait.
• xxi, 512 p : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Mysticism -- Islam.
• Sufism.
• RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.

Contents

• The Arabic alphabet and note on transcription
• The Muslim year
• What is Sufism?
• Historical outlines of classical Sufism
• The path
• Man and his perfection
• Sufi orders and fraternities
• Theosophical Sufism
• The rose and the nightingale: Persian and Turkish mystical poetry
• Sufism in Indo-Pakistan.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-473) and indexes.
• Online (ebrary)
• Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
• digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
• Bibliography: p. 437-467.