Mystics and Saints of Islam

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mystics and Saints of Islam, by Claud Field This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Mystics and Saints of Islam Author: Claud Field Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24314] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM BY CLAUD FIELD london: FRANCIS GRIFFITHS, 34 Maiden lane, strand, W.C. 1910. v-vi CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. PANTHEISTIC SUFISM 1 II. HASAN BASRI 18 III. RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI 28 IV. IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM 36 V. FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ 46 VI. BAYAZID BASTAMI 52 VII. ZU'N NUN OF EGYPT 60 VIII. MANSUR HALLAJ 68 IX. HABIB AJAMI 79 X. AVICENNA (IBN SINA) 86 XI. AL GHAZZALI 106 XII. FARIDUDDIN ATTAR 123 XIII. SUHRAWARDY 141 XIV. JALALUDDIN RUMI 148 XV. SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN 164 XV. MULLAH SHAH 174 APPENDIX I. MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS 192 " II. EXPOSITION OF SUFISM 196 " III. CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE 202 " IV.