Muslim Saints and Mystics
Subtitle: Episodes from the Tadhkirah al-Awliya' of Farid al-Din 'Attar
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789675062094
Description: The ascetic outlook and practice characterised the life not only of Prophet Muhammad himself, but many of his earliest followers. Even at the height of the spread of Islam and its astonishing military conquests, many leading men withstood all temptation to abandon the austere life of the desert, and their example was admired and emulated by multitudes of humbler rank. This book, abridged from the famous Tadhkirah al-Awliya by Farid al-Din Attar, one of Persia's greatest poets, devotes a short chapter to each of the early Sufis.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ḥasan al-Baṣrī; title: Mālik ibn Dīnār; title: Ḥabīb al-‘Ajamī; title: Rābi‘ah al-‘Adawiyah; title: Fuḍayl ibn ‘Iyāḍ; title: Ibrāhīm ibn Adham; title: Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith; title: Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī; title: Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī; title: ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubārak; title: Sufyān al-Thawrī; title: Shaqīq al-Balkhī; title: Dāwūd al-Ṭā’ī; title: Al-Muḥāsibī; title: Aḥmad ibn Ḥarb; title: Ḥātim al-Aṣamm; title: Sahl ibn ‘Abdullah al-Tustarī; title: Ma‘rūf al-Karkhī; title: Sarī al-Saqaṭī; title: Aḥmad ibn Khiḍrūyah; title: Yaḥyā ibn Mu‘ādh; title: Shāh ibn Shujā‘; title: Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn; title: Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ḥaddād; title: Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd; title: ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthmān; title: Abū Sa‘īd al-Kharrāz; title: Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Nūrī; title: Abū ‘Uthmān al-Ḥīrī; title: Ibn ‘Aṭā’; title: Samnūn; title: Al-Tirmidhī; title: Khayr al-Nassāj; title: Abū Bakr al-Kattānī; title: Ibn Khafīf; title: Al-Ḥallāj; title: Ibrāhīm al-Khawwāṣ; title: Al-Shiblī; title: Bibliography; title: Index