Mystical dimensions of Islam
By: Annemarie Schimmel ; with a new foreword by Carl W. Ernst
Contributors: Ernst, Carl W., 1950-
Edition: 35th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780807899762
Subjects: Sufism
Notes: Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1975. With new foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-473) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Arabic alphabet and note on transcription; title: The Muslim year; title: 1. What is Sufism?; title: 2. Historical outlines of classical Sufism; title: 3. The path; title: 4. Man and his perfection; title: 5. Sufi orders and fraternities; title: 6. Theosophical Sufism; title: 7. The rose and the nightingale : Persian and Turkish mystical poetry; title: 8. Sufism in Indo-Pakistan; title: 9. Epilogue; title: Appendix 1. Letter symbolism in Sufi literature; title: Appendix 2. The feminine element in Sufism.