The Biographical Tradition in Sufism
Subtitle: The Tabaqat Genre from al-Sulami to Jami (Curzon Studies in Asian Religion)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: December 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780700713592
Subjects: Historiography; Islam; Islamic studies; Literary studies: general; Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Sociology; Ethnic Issues; Arabic; Persian (Farsi); Religion; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Islam - Sufi
First sentence: Abu 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami (d.412/1021) was an eleventh century Sufi scholar from Nishapur.