INDEX

(Titles of books, as well as Arabic and Persian technical terms, are printed in italics.)

Abdāl, 124.

ʿAbdallah Ansārī, 89.

ʿAbd al-Rahīm ibn al-Sabbāgh, 89.

Abraham, 153.

Abrār, 124.

Absāl, 116.

Abū ʿAbdallah of Mosul, 144.

Abū ʿAbdallah al-Rāzī, 51.

Abū ʿAlī of Sind, 17.

Abū Hamza, 62.

Abu ’l-Hasan Khurqānī, 87, 133 ff., 145.

Abu ’l-Khayr al-Aqtaʿ, 61.

Abū Nasr al-Sarrāj, 157.

Abū Saʿīd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 49, 90, 118.

Adam, 64, 150, 161.

ʿAfīfuddīn al-Tilimsānī, 93, 164, 165. See Niffarī.

Ahl al-Haqq, 1.

Ahmad ibn al-Hawārī, 11.

ahwāl, 29.

Akhyār, 124.

ʿAlāʾuddīn Attār, 143, 144, 146.

Alexander of Aphrodisias, 151.

Al-Haqq. See Haqq.

ʿAlī, the Caliph, 50, 89, 153.

Ana ’l-Haqq, 150 ff.

Arabian Nights, the, 63.

ʿArafāt, 91.

ʿārif, 29.

Aristotle, 12.

Asceticism, 4, 5, 6, 10, 28 ff., 109.

Ashʿarites, the, 6.

ʿAttār, Farīduddīn, 106.

Audition, 63 ff. See samāʿ.

Augustine, St., 118.

Avicenna, 145, 146.

awliyā, 122.

Awtād, 124.

Bābā Kūhī, 58.

Bābism, 89.

Bactria, 16, 18.

Baghdād, 149, 157.

Balkh, 16.

baqā, 18, 61, 149, 159, 163, 164, 167.

Basra, 14.

Bāyazīd of Bistām, 17, 51, 57, 62, 108, 111, 112, 115, 126, 131, 132, 159.

Bektāshīs, the, 95.

Bishr, 105.

Breath, practice of inhaling and exhaling the, 48.

Brown, J. P., 141.

Browne, Professor E. G., 110.

Buddha, 16, 17.

Buddhism, 16 ff., 48. See Nirvāṇa.

Bulghār, 161.

Calendars, the, 90.

Celibacy, condemned by Mohammed, 5.

China, 161.

Christ, 82, 88. See Jesus.

Christianity, 4, 5, 10 f., 82, 111, 112, 151, 157.

Contemplation, 18, 31, 32, 53, 54 ff., 68.

Dancing, 63, 65, 66.

Dante, 100.

Dark Night of the Soul, the, 166.

Davids, Professor T. W. Rhys, 19.

Dāwud al-Tāʾī, 36.

Deification, 149 ff., 163.

dervīsh, 37.

Dervish Orders, the, 48, 95, 125, 130, 140 ff.

Dervishes, maxims for, 38, 39.

Devil, the, 49, 53, 69. See Iblīs and Satan.

dhawq, 59.

dhikr, 10, 45 ff., 63.

Dhu ’l-Nūn the Egyptian, 13, 65, 79, 116, 145.

Dionysius the Areopagite, 12 f., 112.

Directors, spiritual, 31, 32 ff., 89, 140 ff., 165.

Dīvān of Shamsi Tabrīz, 95.

Eckhart, 118, 154.

Ecstasy, 59 ff., 118, 132, 133, 166. See fanā.

Eden, 161.

Elias, 14.

Emanation, the theory of, 80, 96.

Emerson, 110.

Euchitæ, the, 11.

Evil, the unreality of, 94.

Evil, part of the divine order, 96 ff.

Evolution, of Man, 168.

fanā, 17 ff., 28, 48, 59, 60 ff., 144, 149, 155 ff., 164, 165, 166.

fanā al-fanā, 61, 79.

fānī, 155.

faqīr, 37, 38.

firāsat, 51.

FitzGerald, Edward, 97.

Frothingham, A. L., 12.

Fudayl ibn ʿIyād, 109.

Gairdner, W. H. T., 16.

ghaybat, 59.

Ghaylān, 105.

Ghazālī, 24, 46, 96.

Gnosis, the, 7, 14, 29, 30, 68 ff., 121, 164.

Gnosticism, 14 ff.

Goldziher, Professor I., 14, 16.

Gospel, the, 10.

Hafiz, 88, 102.

hāl, 29, 59.

Hallāj, 40, 149 ff., 160.

Hamadhān, 108, 109.

haqīqat, 29, 79. See Truth, the.

Haqq = God, 1, 81. See Ana ’l-Haqq.

haqq, 164.

Hasan ʿAttār, Khwāja, 144.

hātif, 63.

Heart, the, a spiritual organ, 50, 68 ff.

Heaven and Hell, subjective, 97, 162.

Hierotheus, 12.

Hind, 105.

Hujwīrī, 31, 32, 54, 63, 65, 92, 110, 123, 124, 126, 159, 160.

hulūl, 150, 151, 154, 157.

Hulūlīs, the, 151.

Husayn ibn Mansūr, 149. See Hallāj.

Hypnotism, 139 ff.

Iblīs, 99. See Devil, the.

Ibn al-Anbārī, 51.

Ibn al-ʿArabī, 87, 102, 103, 105, 111, 125, 155, 166.

Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, 14, 16.

ihsān, 53.

Illumination, 7, 50 ff., 70.

ʿilm, 71.

Immortality, impersonal, 167, 168.

Incarnation, 150, 151, 157. See hulūl.

India, 16, 161.

Inge, Dr. W. R., 112, 151, 154.

Iqbal, Shaikh Muhammad, 15.

ʿIrāq, 161, 168.

Islam, relation of Sūfism to, 19 ff., 71 ff., 86 ff., 159, 160.

istinbāt, 23, 24.

ittihād, 157, 158.

Jabarites, the, 6.

Jacob of Sarūj, 12.

jadhbat, 59.

Jalāluddīn Rūmī, 25, 64, 67, 69, 95 ff., 105, 106, 107, 109, 113, 116, 117, 118, 119, 125, 129, 132, 148, 152, 155, 161, 162, 168.

jamʿ, 159.

Jāmī, 38, 66, 80, 81, 83, 106, 110, 142, 166.

Jesus, 10, 133, 150, 153, 157. See Christ.

Jews, the, 122.

Jinn, the, 132.

John, St., 82.

John Scotus Erigena, 12.

Joseph, 99, 116.

Journeys, mystical, 163, 164. See Path, the.

Junayd of Baghdād, 34, 35, 52, 88, 91, 112, 113, 131.

Kaʿba, the, 58, 91, 92, 105, 116, 134.

karāmāt, 122, 129.

Karma, the doctrine of, 19.

Kashf al-Mahjūb, 54, 63. See Hujwīrī.

Khadir, 14, 113, 127 ff.

khirqat, 49.

Khizr, 127. See Khadir.

Khorāsān, 161, 168.

Khurqānī. See Abu ’l-Hasan Khurqānī.

Kitāb al-Lumaʿ, 28, 121, 130.

Kitāb al-Tawāsīn, 150.

Knowledge of God. See Gnosis, the.

Knowledge, religious opposed to mystical, 71.

Koran, the, 4, 5, 21, 22, 23, 46, 50, 63, 93, 105, 111, 121, 122, 127.

Koran, the, quotations from, 22, 45, 50, 51, 53, 56, 70, 88, 98, 121, 122, 128, 129, 150, 152.

Koran, germs of mysticism in the, 21 f.

lāhūt, 150.

Lane, Edward, 45.

Law, the religious, 62, 86, 92 ff., 126, 127, 152, 163.

Laylā, 116, 159.

Legend of the Moslem Saints, the, 21, 31, 108, 131.

Lives of the Saints, by Jāmī, 66. See Nafahāt al-Uns.

Logos, the, 51, 82, 83.

Love, divine, 6, 8, 10, 45, 55, 80, 81, 84, 88, 101, 102 ff., 151, 160.

Lubnā, 105.

Macdonald, Professor D. B., 23, 45, 46, 125, 141.

majdhūb, 123.

Majduddīn of Baghdād, 66.

Majnūn, 116, 159.

Mālik ibn Dīnār, 36, 37.

Man, the final cause of the universe, 82.

Man, higher than the angels, 69.

Man, the microcosm, 84, 85, 97.

Man, the Perfect, 83, 163, 164, 165.

Mandæans, the, 14.

Mānī, 14.

Manichæans, the, 14.

Mansūr, 153. See Hallāj.

maqāmāt, 28.

maʿrifat, 29, 71. See Gnosis, the.

Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, 14.

Marwa, 92.

Mary, 133.

Masnavī, the, 25, 64, 96, 132, 148. See Jalāluddīn Rūmī.

Massignon, L., 150, 151, 154, 155.

Mawāqif, the, 57. See Niffarī.

Mayya, 105.

Mecca, 134.

Meditation, 48 f.

Mephistopheles, 58.

Messalians, the, 11.

Minā, 92.

Miracles, 122, 123, 129 ff., 138, 139 ff.

Mohammed, the Prophet, 5, 20, 21, 35, 39, 44, 49, 51, 52, 53, 68, 70, 73, 82, 90, 93, 111, 129, 131, 141, 144, 164, 165. See Traditions of the Prophet.

Mohammed ibn ʿAlī Hakīm, 143.

Mohammed ibn ʿUlyān, 39.

Mohammed ibn Wāsiʿ, 36, 37, 55.

Mollā-Shāh, 141, 142.

More, Henry, 162.

Mortification, 36, 40 f.

Moses, 127 ff., 152.

muʿjizat, 129.

murāqabat, 48.

muraqqaʿat, 33, 49.

Murjites, the, 5.

murshid, 32, 140.

Music, 48, 63 ff.

Muʿtazilites, the, 6.

Muzdalifa, 91.

Nafahāt al-Uns, 166. See Lives of the Saints.

nafs, 39, 40.

Name, the Great, 14.

nāsūt, 150.

Neoplatonism, 12 f., 112.

Niffarī, 57, 71, 72, 74, 85, 93, 155, 164.

Nirvāṇa, 18 ff., 61, 149.

Nizāmuddīn Khāmūsh, Mawlānā, 143.

Noah, 153.

Nöldeke, Th., 3.

Not-being, the principle of evil, 94, 97.

Nuqabā, 124.

Nūrī, 49, 51, 94, 107, 108.

Omar, the Caliph, 38.

Omar Khayyām, 97.

Pantheism, 8, 18, 21, 23, 79 ff., 109, 133 ff., 148 ff. See Unity, the divine.

Path, the, 28 ff., 163.

Paul, St., 12, 82.

Pentateuch, the, 22.

Personality, survival of, 167.

Phenomena, the nature of, 82.

Phenomena, a bridge to Reality, 109 f.

Philo, 22.

Pilgrimage, allegorical interpretation of the, 91.

pīr, 32, 140.

Plato, 7, 12, 64.

Plotinus, 11, 12, 117.

Porphyry, 12.

Poverty, 36 ff.

Predestination, 4, 6, 36, 98.

Pre-existence of the soul, 15, 64, 116.

Proclus, 12.

Prophet, the. See Mohammed, the Prophet.

Prophets, the, 121, 122, 126, 129, 164.

Purgative Way, the, 32.

Pythagoras, 64.

Qadarites, the, 6.

Qadīb al-Bān, 144.

qalb, 50, 68.

Qays, 105.

qibla, 134.

Quietism, 4. See Trust in God.

Qushayrī, 126, 130.

Qutb, 123, 124, 164, 165.

Rābiʿa, 4, 31, 115.

rāhib, 10.

Raqqām, 107.

Reason, the Active, 151.

Recollection, 36, 45. See dhikr.

Religion, all types of, are equal, 87.

Religion, positive, its relation to mysticism, 24, 71 ff. See Islam, relation of Sūfism to.

Repentance, 30 ff.

ridā, 41.

Rizwān, 161.

Rosaries, used by Sūfīs, 17.

rūh, 68.

Rūmī, 153. See Jalāluddīn Rūmī.

Ruysbroeck, 151, 164.

Sābians, the, 14.

Saʿduddīn of Kāshghar, Mawlānā, 142.

Safā, 92.

Sahl ibn ʿAbdallah of Tustar, 46, 52, 56, 63, 130.

Saints, the Moslem, 120 ff.

Saintship, the doctrine of, 62, 120 ff.

Salāmān, 116.

sālik, 28.

samāʿ, 59, 60, 63 ff.

Saqsīn, 161.

Sarī al-Saqatī, 52, 54, 61, 113.

Satan, 32, 113. See Devil, the.

Sea, the Revelation of the, by Niffarī, 74.

Self-annihilation, 140, 141, 168. See fanā.

Shāh al-Kirmānī, 52.

Shaqīq of Balkh, 42, 43, 44.

Sheykh, the, 32 ff., 49, 140, 141. See Directors, spiritual.

Shiblī, 34, 35, 48, 52, 55, 62, 116.

Shihābuddīn Suhrawardī, 166.

Shīʿites, the, 89.

shirb, 59.

siddīq, 14.

Sin, 30 ff.

Singing, 63 ff.

sirr, 68, 155.

Soul, the lower or appetitive. See nafs.

Spirit, the divine, 150, 151.

Spirit, the human, 51, 68.

Stages, mystical, 28 f., 41.

States, mystical, 29.

Stephen Bar Sudaili, 12.

Sūfī, meaning and derivation of, 3.

Sūfism, definitions of, 1, 14, 25 ff.

Sūfism, the oldest form of, 4 f.

Sūfism, the origin of, 8 ff.

Sūfism, its relation to Islam, 19 ff., 71 ff., 86 ff., 159, 160.

sukr, 59.

Sunna, the, 73.

Symbolism, mystical, 28, 102 ff., 116, 117.

tālib, 29.

tarīqat, 27, 28.

Tauler, 151.

tawajjuh, 142, 143.

tawakkul, 41.

Tawakkul Beg, 141, 142.

Telekinesis, 145.

Telepathy, 120. See firāsat.

Theology of Aristotle, the so-called, 12.

Tirmidh, 143.

Tora, the, 105.

Traditions of the Prophet, 23, 39, 44, 49, 51, 53, 54, 68, 80, 83, 100.

Transoxania, 16.

Trust in God, 36, 41 ff.

Truth, the, 29, 30, 79, 92 ff., 152, 163.

Underhill, E., 164.

Union with God, 39, 159, 160. See Unitive State, the, and fanā.

Unitive State, the, 148 ff.

Unity, the divine, Sūfistic theory of, 42, 79 ff., 98, 152, 154, 155.

Vedānta, the, 18.

Veils, the seventy thousand, doctrine of, 15 f.

Vision, spiritual, 50.

wajd, 59.

walī, 122, 123. See Saints, the Moslem.

waliyyat, 123.

waqfat, 58, 156.

wāqif, 156, 165.

Wāsit, 14.

Whinfield, E. H., 64, 132, 148.

yaqīn, 50.

Yūsuf, 116. See Joseph.

Zangī Bashgirdī, 66.

Zulaykhā, 116.

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