The Mystics of Islam by Reynold A. Nicholson
A short, clear introduction to Sufism by one of its greatest Western scholars: the path and its stages, illumination and ecstasy, the knowledge and love of God, saints and miracles, and union with God, illustrated throughout with sayings and verses of the Sufis themselves.
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About this book
Nicholson, who later translated Rumi's Masnavi in full, wrote this book for general readers. Each chapter takes one theme of Sufi teaching and lets the masters speak for themselves through passages translated from Arabic and Persian.
More than a century on, it is still one of the most readable introductions to the inner life of Islam.
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