Islam - Notes

1. Mohammed M. Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (NY: New American Library, n.d.), x.

2. Shihab ud Din Suhrawardi (died 1191 CE), quoted by Hussein Nasr, Three Muslim Sages (Cambridge: University Press, 1963), 69.

3. Hafiz (d. 1389), quoted by Nasrallah S. Fatemi, Faramarz S. Fatemi and Fariborz S. Fatemi in Love, Beauty and Harmony in Sufism (NY: A.S. Barnes & Co. Inc., 1978), 203. The Magi were priests of an un-Islamic religious tradition in ancient Persia.

4. 'Ali Muhammad al-Qari (n.d.), quoted by Constance E. Padwick, Muslim Devotions (London: SPCK, 1961), 62.

5. 'Ali Zain al-'Abidin (d. 710-713), quoted by Padwick, 69.

6. Kenneth Craig, compiler, The Wisdom of the Sufis (NY: New Directions, 1976), 33.

7. Dr. Mir Valiuddin, The Quranic Sufism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977), 43. Sufi author unknown.

8. Ibn 'Arabi (d. 1240), in Ismail Hakki Bursevi's translation of and commentary on Fusus al-Hakkim (Oxford: Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 1987), Vol. II, 319.

9. Ibn 'Arabi, quoted by Prof. Muhammad Enamul Haq, A History of Sufism in Bengal (Dacca, Bangladesh: Asiatic Press, 1975), 399.

10. In Bursevi, Fusus al-Hikam, Vol. II, 266.

11. Ibn 'Arabi, Lama'at, quoted by A.J. Arberry in Sufism: An Account of the Mystics in Islam (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1968), 103.

12. Maneri, The Hundred Letters, trans. by Paul Jackson. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1980), 13.

13. Maneri, 56.

14. Nuri, quoted by Annemarie Schimmel in Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975), 144.

15. Cragg, The Wisdom of the Sufis, 56-58.

16. Quoted by Schimmel, 421.

17. Al-Hallaj (d. 922), quoted by Herbert Mason, "Hallaj and the Baghdad School of Sufism," in Leonard Lewishon (ed.), Classical Persian Sufism: From its Origins to Rumi (London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1993), 80.

18. Ahmad al-Buni (n.d.), quoted by Schimmel, 213.

19. Ahmad al-Tijani (born 1737/38), quoted by Schimmel, 213.

20. In Schimmel, 215.

21. Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1993), 122.

22. in Fusus al-Hikam, 161-62.

23. Haq, A History of Sufism in Bengal, 56-57.

24. Jami (d. 1492), quoted in Valiuddin, The Quranic Sufism, 78.

25. A.J. Arberry, The Doctrine of the Sufis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 107. Sufi author(s) unknown.

26. Attar being "the mentor of mystic poets and writers" (d. 1230 CE), quoted by Fatemi, Love, Beauty and Harmony in Sufism, 143.

27. Reynold A. Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1970), 59.

28. Maneri, The Hundred Letters, 56-57.

29. Arberry, The Doctrine of the Sufis, 137.

30. Mehdi Nakosteen, Sufism and Human Destiny and Sufi Thought in Persian Poetry (Boulder, Colorado: Este Es Press, 1977), 202.

31. Quoted by Arberry, The Mystics of Islam, 62-63.

32. In Arberry, The Doctrine of the Sufis, 90.

33. In Arberry, The Mystics of Islam, 61-62.

34. In R.S. Bhatnaggar, Dimensions of Classical Sufi Thought (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984), 63.

35. Haq, A History of Sufism in Bengal, 107.

36. Quoted by Dr. Mir Valiuddin, Contemplative Disciplines in Sufism (London: East-West Publications), 115.

37. Valiuddin, Contemplative Disciplines, 160.

38. Valiuddin, Contemplative Disciplines, 162-163.

39. 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes, 70.

40. Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam, 150.

41. Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, 223.

42. Lewisohn, Classical Persian Sufism, 374.

43. 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes, 69.

44. 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes, 124.

45. 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes, 167.

46. Maneri, The Hundred Letters, 55.

47. In Fatemi, Love, Beauty and Harmony in Sufism, 52.

48. Dr. Motilal Jotivani, Sufis of Sindh (Delhi: K.S. Printers, 1986), 75-78.