Works on Sufism
Islamic Studies Reading Room, 602 Butler Library (Non-Circulating).
Compiled by Casey Primel and Kaoukab Chebaro, Columbia University Libraries.
(September 2009)
General & Regional Surveys and Monographs:
Abbas, Shemeem Burney (2002). The female voice in Sufi ritual : devotional practices of
Pakistan and India. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Call No.: BP189.65.M87 A22 2002
Babayan, Kathryn (2002). Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: cultural landscape of early
modern Iran. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard UP.
Call No.: BP188.8.I55 B332 2002g
Badawī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (1975). Tārīkh al-taṣawwuf al-Islāmī : min al-bidāyah ḥattá
nihāyat al-qarn al-thānī. Kuwait: Wakālat al-Maṭbūāt.
Call No.: BP188.6 .B34 1975g
Basu, Helene & Werbner, Pnina (ed.). (1998). Embodying Charisma : modernity,
locality, and performance of emotion in sufi cults. New York : Routledge.
Call No.: BP189.23 .E45 1998
Cornell, Vincent (1998). Realm of the Saint : power and authority in Moroccan Sufism.
Austin: University of Texas Press.
Call No.: BP188.8.M6 C67 1998
Daly, M.W. (ed.). (1985). Al-Majdhubiyya and al-Mikashfiyya: two sufi tariqas in the
Sudan. London: Ithaca Press
Call No.: BP188.8.S8 K37 1985
Ernst, Carl (1985). Words of ecstasy in Sufism. Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press.
Call No.: BP189.6 .E76 1985
Fernandes, Leonor (1988). The evolution of a Sufi institution in Mamluk Egypt : the
khanqah. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz.
Call No.: BP188.8.E3 F4 1988g
Gall, Dina Le (2005). A Culture of Sufism : Naqshbandīs in the Ottoman world, 14501700. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Call No.: BP189.7.N35 L44 2005
Hanif, N. (2002). Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis : Central Asia and Middle East.
New Delhi: Sarup & Sons.
Call No.: BP189.4 .B562 2002g
al-Iṣbahānī, Ḥāfiẓ Abī Nuʻaym Aḥmad ibn Abd Allāh (1987). Ḥilyat al-awliyā waṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyā. Bayrūt: Dār al-Kitāb al-Arabī.
Call No.: BP70 .A252 1987g (10 vol.)
al-Jāmī, Abū al-Barakāt Abd al-Raḥmān (1989). Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaḍarāt al-Quds.
Cairo: al-Azhar al-Sharīf.
Call No.: BP189.4 .J35 1989g
Knysh, Alexander (2000). Islamic Mysticism : a short history. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
Call No.: BP189 .K69 1999
Lifchez, Raymond (ed.). (1992) The Dervish Lodge : architecture, art, and Sufism in
Ottoman Turkey. Berkeley : University of California Press.
Call No.: NX688.T9 D47 1992
Lings, Martin (trans. and ed.). (2004). Sufi poems : a medieval anthology. Cambridge :
Islamic Texts Society.
Call No.: PJ7694.E3 S83 2004g
Massignon, Louis (1997). Essay on the origins of the technical language of Islamic
mysticism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Call No.: BP189 .M3413 1997
Mojaddedi, Jawid (2001). The biographical tradition in sufism: the ṭabaqāt genre from
al-Sulamī to Jāmī. Richmond & Surrey: Curzon Press.
Call No.: BP189 .M64 2001g
Nicholson, Reynold (1998). Studies in Islamic Mysticism. London & New York: Kegan
Paul International.
Call No.: BP189 .N5 1998
Öztürk, Yaşar Nuri (1998). The eye of the heart : an introduction to Sufism and the major
tariqats of Anatolia and the Balkans (Richard Blakney, trans.) Istanbul: Redhouse
Press.
Call No.: BP188.8.T9 O98 1988
Palacious, Miguel Asín (1978). The Mystical Philosophy of Ibn Masarra and his
Followers. Leiden: Brill.
Call No.: BP188.8.S7 A8313
Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt (1995). Sufi music of India and Pakistan : sound, context,
and meaning in Qawwali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Call No.: ML3197 .Q74 1995
Renard, John (2008). Friends of God : Islamic images of piety, commitment, and
servanthood. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Call No.: BP189.43 .R46 2008
al-Salmī, Abī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (1984). al-Muqaddimah fī al-taṣawwuf wa-ḥaqīqatih
(Ḥusayn Amīn, ed.). Baghdad: Dār al-Qad̄isīyah lil-Ṭibāʻah.
Call No.: BP189.68 .S85 1984g
Schimmel, Annemarie (1975). Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press.
Call No.: BP189.2 .S34
Smith, Margaret (1993). Readings from the mystics of Islam: translations from the Arabic
and Persian, together with a short account of the history and doctrines of Sufism
and brief biographical notes on each Sufi writer. Westport, CT: Pir Publications.
Call No.: BP189.23 .S64 1994
Smith, Maraget (2001). Muslim women mystics : the life and work of Rab'ia and other
women mystics in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld.
Call No.: BP80.R3 S55 2001g
as-Sulamī, Abū ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān (1999). Early Sufi women : Dhikr an-niswa almutaʻabbidāt aṣ-Ṣūfiyyāt (Rkia Elaroui Cornell, trans. and ed.). Louisville, KY:
Fons Vitae.
Call No.: BP188.9 .S9513 1999
Trimingham, J. Spencer (1998). The Sufi orders in Islam. New York: Oxford UP.
Call No.: BP189.68 .T75 1998
al-Ṭusī, Abī Naṣr al-Sarrāj (1998). al-Lum (Abd al-Ḥalīm Maḥmūd & Ṭāhā ʻAbd al-Bāqī
Surūr, ed.). Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqāfah al-Dīnīyah.
Call No.: BP189.26 .S36 1998g (Died 378/988, Tus).
Individual Sufis
Mansur al-Hallaj (c. 858-922):
Al-Hallaj, Mansur (2002). al-Ḥallāj : al-amal al-kāmilah (Qāsim Muḥammad
Abbās, ed.). Beirut: Riyāḍ al-Rayyis lil-Kutub wa-al-Nashr.
Call No.: BP88.H327 A14 2002g
Dāwūd, Amānī Sulaymān (2002). al-Uslūbīyah wa-al-Ṣūfīyah: dirāsah fī shiʻr alḤusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj. Ammān: Majdalāwī.
Call No.: PJ7745.H3 Z538 2002g
ʻAlī ibn ʻUs̲mān Hujwiri (c. 990-1077):
Hujvīrī, Alī ibn Usmān (2004). Kashf al-maḥjūb (Maḥmūd ʻĀbidī, ed.). Tihrān:
Surūsh.
Call No.: BP188.9 .H84 2004g
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (c. 1006-1089):
Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah & Ibn ‘Ata’Illah (1978). Intimate Conversations & The
Book of Wisdom (Victor Danner & Wheeler M. Thackston, trans.). New York:
Paulist Press.
Call No.: BP189.62 .I2613 1978
Abu 'l-Qasim al-Qushayri ( 986- 1072 AD):
al-Qushayri, Abu 'l-Qasim (1997). Sufi book of spiritual ascent (al-Risala alQushayriya) (Rabia Harris, trans. & Laleh Bakhtiar, ed.). Chicago, IL: KAZI
Publications.
Call No.: BP189 .Q7313 1997g
al-Qushayri, Abu 'l-Qasim (1992). Principles of Sufism (B.R. von Schlegell,
trans.). Berkeley: Mizan Press.
Call No.: BP189 .Q7313 1992
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111):
Abrahamov, Binyamin (2003). Divine love in Islamic mysticism : the teachings of
al-Ghazâlî and al-Dabbâgh. New York: Routledge-Curzon.
Call No.: BP189.65.L68 A26 2003
Gianotti, Timothy (2001). Al-Ghazālī's unspeakable doctrine of the soul :
unveiling the esoteric psychology and eschatology of the Iḥyā. Leiden & Boston :
Brill.
Call No.: B753.G33 I546 2001
Ḥaḍrat Abdul-Qādir al-Jilani (1077-1166):
al-Jīlānī, Ḥaḍrat ʻAbdul-Qādir (1994). The Secret of Secrets. Cambridge: The
Islamic Texts Society.
Call No.: BP189.7.Q32 A374 1994g
Ruzbihan Baqli (1128-1209):
Ernst, Carl (1996). Rūzbihān Baqlī : mysticism and the rhetoric of sainthood in
Persian Sufism. Richmond & Surrey: Curzon Press.
Call No.: BP80.B36 E757 1996g
Baqli, Ruzbihan (1997).The unveiling of secrets : diary of a Sufi master (Carl W.
Ernst, trans.). Chapel Hill, NC: Parvardigar Press.
Call No.: BP80.B262 A3 1997g
Ruspoli, Stéphane (2001). Le traité de l'Esprit saint de Rûzbehân de Shîrâz :
étude préliminaire, traduction annotée suivies d'un commentaire de son "Lexique
du Soufisme". Paris: Cerf.
Call No.: BP88.B36 R87 2001g
Farīdu'd-Dīn Aṭṭār (c. 1142-1220):
Aṭṭār, Farīdu'd-Dīn (1998). The speech of the birds: concerning migration to the
real: the Manṭiqu'ṭ-ṭair (P.W. Avery, trans.). Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts
Society.
Call No.: PK6451.F4 M2813 1998
Aṭṭār, Farīdu'd-Dīn. Muslim saints and mystics: episodes from the Tadhkirat alauliya ("Memorial of the saints") (A.J. Arberry, trans.). London & New York:
Arkana, 1990.
Call No.: BP189.4 .F323 1990g
ʻUmar b. al-Fāriḍ (1181-1235):
al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar b. (2001). Umar b. al-Fāriḍ : poèmes mystiques (Jean-Yves
L'Hopital, trans.). Damascus: Institut franc̨ ais d'études arabes de Damas.
Call No.: PJ7750 .I1814 2001g
al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar b. (2001). Umar ibn al-Fāriḍ : Sufi verse, saintly life (Th. Emil
Homerin, trans.). New York: Paulist Press.
Call No.: PJ7755.I18 A1713 2001
al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar b. (2004). Shar.h tāʾīyat ibn al-Fāri.d al-kubrá (Ahmad Farīd alMazīdī, ed.). Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah.
Call No.: PJ7755.I18 Z83 2004g
Muḥyīddīn Ibn al-‘Arabi (1165-1240):
Corbin, Henry (1998). Alone with the alone : creative imagination in the Ṣūfism
of Ibn Arabī. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Call No.: BP80.I2 C6713 1998g
Chittick, William (1994). Imaginal Worlds : Ibn al-ʻArabī and the problem of
religious diversity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Call No.: BP80.I2 C475 1994
Nettler, Ronald (2003). Sufi Metaphysics and Qur'ānic Prophets : Ibn ʻArabī's
thought and method in the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Cambridge : Islamic Texts Society.
Call No.: BP189.3 .N48 2003g
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (1980). The bezels of wisdom (trans. R.W.J. Austin).
New York: Paulist Press.
Call No.: BP189.26 .I2513 1980
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (2008). Contemplation of the holy mysteries and the
rising of the divine lights = Mashāhid al-asrār al-qudsiyya wa maṭāliʻ al-anwār
al-ilahiyya (trans. Cecilia Twinch & Pablo Beneito). Oxford: Anqa Publishing.
Call No.: BP188.9 .I24513 2008
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (1978). The Tarjumán al-ashwáq : a collection of
mystical odes (Reynold A. Nicholson, trans. & ed.). London & Wheaton, IL:
Theosophical Pub. House.
Call No.: PJ7755.I175 T813 1978g
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (1971). Sufis of Andalusia: the 'Rūh al-quds' and 'alDurrat al-fākhirah' of Ibn ʻArabī (R. W. J. Austin, trans.). London: Allen and
Unwin.
Call No.: BP189.4 .I13 1971
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (2005). Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam. Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqāfah
al-Dīnīyah.
Call No.: BP189.26 .I251 2005g
Ibn al-‘Arabi, Muḥyīddīn (1972-). al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah (Uthmān Yaḥyá, ed.).
Cairo: al-Hay’ah al-Miṣrīyah al-Āmmah lil-Kitab.
Call No.: BP189.26 .I262 (vol.1-14).
Jalalu’ddin Rumi (1207-1273):
Chittick, William (2005). The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi. Bloomington, IN: World
Wisdom.
Call No.: BP189.7.M42 C48 2005
Rumi, Jalalu’ddin (1972). Discourses of Rūmī (A.J. Arberry, trans.). New York:
S. Weiser.
Call No.: BP189.7.M42 A323 1972
Rumi, Jalalu’ddin (1926-1940). The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí (Reynold A.
Nicholson, ed. & trans.). London: Messrs. Luzac & Co.
Call No.: PK6481.M8 E52 1926g (v.1-8).
Ibn Aṭā Allāh al-Iskandarī (Ibn Ata' Illah) (d. 1309):
Ibn ‘Ata’Illah & Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah (1978). The Book of Wisdom &
Intimate Conversations (Victor Danner & Wheeler M. Thackston, trans.). New
York: Paulist Press.
Call No.: BP189.62 .I2613 1978
Ibn Aṭā Allāh al-Iskandarī, Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (2005). Miftāḥ alfalāḥ wa-miṣbāḥ al-arwāḥ : fī dhikr Allāh al-karīm al-fattāḥ. Cairo: al-Maktabah
al-Azharīyah lil-Turāth.
Call No.: PJ7760.I18 M54 2005g
Hamid Ibn Fadl Allah Jamali (d. 1536):
Jamali, Hamid Ibn Fadl Allah (2002). The mirror of meanings = Mirāt al-maānī :
a parallel English-Persian text (A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, trans. & N. Pourjavadi, ed.).
Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.
Call No.: PK6485.A43 M5513 2002