Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origins to Rumi

Written by twenty-three of the world’s foremost authorities on Islamic mysticism and Persian history, this study traces in detail the renaissance of Sufism from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. It features essays on Rumi’s poetry and imagery; Sufi music and the idea of ecstasy; sainthood and Neoplatonism, and the unity of religion in Sufi philosophy.