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Sufism

Scholarly Resources and Journal Articles

Journal of Sufi Studies

Kamuran Godelek, “The Neoplatonist Roots of Sufi Philosophy,” Comparative Philosophy, Boston University.

R. A. Nicholson, “Historical Enquiry Concerning the Origin and Development of Sufism,” Royal Asiatic Society, 1906.

Sarfraz Khan and Mirza Rizwan Sajid, [pdf] “The Essence of Shrines in Rural Punjab”

 

Great Sufi Masters

    Farid al-Din Attar
  • Farid al-Din ‘Attar biography by Hermann Landolt
  • Biography of Attar by Iraj Bashiri
  • Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of ‘Attar’s ‘Parliament of the Birds”

Muhyi’d-Din Ibn `Arabi Society

Sayings of Jalalu’d-Din Rumi

 

Orders

Chishti Order

Mevlevi Order

Eric Ross, Shrines of the Muridiya in Senegal

Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order

Nimatollahi Order

Qadiri-Rifai

Shadhili Order

Suhrawardi Order website

Tijani Order

 

`Irfan and Illuminationism

Mulla Sadra at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Mehdi Amin Razavi, Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination, Curzon Press, 1997 at Scribd [seen Jan. 2013]

John Walbridge, “THE DEVOTIONAL AND OCCULT WORKS OF SUHRAWARDĪ THE ILLUMINATIONIST” [pdf]

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