Al-Qushayri, Abu ’l-Qasim, Sufi Book of Spiritual Ascent (al-Risala al-Qushayriya), abridged translation by Rabia Harris, edited by Laleh Bakhtiar (Chicago: ABC International Group, Inc., 2006).
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Attar, Farid al-Din, Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ (Memorial of the Saints), translated by A. J. Arberry (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).
Browne, E. G., A Literary History of Persia, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Four Sufi Classics with an Introduction by Idries Shah (London: Octagon Press, 1984). Includes Jami, Salaman and Absal, translated by Edward FitzGerald; Al-Ghazzali, The Niche for Lights, translated by W. H. T. Gairdner; and Hakim Sanai, The Way of the Seeker and Jami, The Abode of Spring, trans lated and abridged by David L. Pendlebury.
Gibb, E. J. W., A History of Ottoman Poetry, 6 vols. (London: Luzac & Co., 1900–1909).
Khan, Inayat, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia, translated by Coleman Barks (New York: Omega Publications, 1993).
Ladinsky, Daniel, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (New York: Penguin Compass, 2002).
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Nicholson, R. A., Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921).
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Mason, Herbert W., Al-Hallaj (London: Curzon, 1995).
Massignon, Louis, The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, translated by Herbert Mason (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Farhâdi, A. G. Ravân, ‘Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1089 CE): An Early Sufi Master (London: Curzon, 1996).
Ansari, Khwajih ’Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, Munajat: The Intimate Prayers of Khwajih ’Abd Allah Ansari, translated by Lawrence Morris and Rustam Sarfeh (New York: Khaneghah and Maktab of Maleknia Naseralishah, 1975).
Sanai, Hakim, The Walled Garden of Truth, abridged and translated by D. L. Pendlebury (London: Octagon Press, 1974).
Ganjavi, Nizami, The Story of Layla and Majnun, translated by R. Gelpke, E. Mattin and G. Hill (Oxford: Cassimer, 1966).
——The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance, translated by Julie Scott Meisami (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Talattof, Kamran and Clinton, Jerome W. (eds.), The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000).
The Ilahi-nama, or, Book of God of Farid al-Din ‘Attar, translated by John Andrew Boyle (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977).
Attar, Farid al-Din, Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ (Memorial of the Saints), translated by A. J. Arberry (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).
‘Attar, Faridu’d-Din, The Speech of the Birds: Concerning Migration to the Real, The Mantiqu’t-Tair, translated by P. W. Avery (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998).
Ritter, Hellmut, The Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World and God in the Stories of Farid al-Din ‘Attar, translated by John O’Kane (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
‘Umar Ibn al-Farid: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life, translated by Emil Homerin (New York: Paulist Press, 2001).
Arberry, A. J., The Poem of the Way, Translated into English Verse from the Arabic of Ibn al-Farid (London: Emery Walker, 1952).
Addas, Claude, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi, translated by Peter Kingsley (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993).
Chodkiewicz, Michel, An Ocean without Shore: Ibn ‘Arabi, The Book, and the Law, translated by David Streight (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).
Hirtenstein, Stephen and Tiernan, Michael (eds.), Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi: A Commemorative Volume (Shaftesbury: Element for the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, 1993).
Ibn al-‘Arabi, The Meccan Revelations, vols. i and ii, edited by Michel Chodkiewicz, translated by William C. Chittick and James W. Morris (New York: PIR Press, 2002, 2004).
The Tarjumán al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes by Muhyi’ddín Ibn al-‘Arabí, translated by R. A. Nicholson (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1978).
Ibn al-‘Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality), translated by R. W. J. Austin with a preface by Titus Burckhardt (London: SPCK, 1980).
Selected Poems from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, translated by R. A. Nicholson (Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 2004).
Lewis, Franklin D., Rumi, Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teachings and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi (Oxford: Oneworld, 2000).
Teachings of Rumi: The Masnavi, abridged and translated by E. H. Whinfield (London: Octagon Press, 1979).
Mystical Poems of Rūmī 1: First Selection, Poems 1–200, translated by A. J. Arberry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974).
Mystical Poems of Rūmī 2: Second Selection, Poems 201–400, translated by A. J. Arberry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Rumi: Selected Poems, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne (London: Penguin, 2004).
Rumi: Spiritual Verses, translated by Alan Williams (London: Penguin, 2006).
Chittick, William C., The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2005).
Schimmel, Annemarie, Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).
Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi: Divine Flashes, translated by William C. Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson (New York: Paulist Press, 1982).
Javadi, S. H. S. Kamal Haj Sayyed (ed.), The Gulistan or Rose Garden, translated by Francis Gladwin (London: Al-Hoda, 2000).
Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan, translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman, based on the 1888 translation of Edward Rehatsek (New York: Global Scholarly Publications, with the International Society for Iranian Culture, 2004).
Lewisohn, Leonard, Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1995).
Gulshan i Raz: The Mystic Rose Garden of Sa’d ud Din Mahmud Shabistari (1880), translated by E. H. Whinfield (Islamabad: Iran–Pakistan Institute of Persian Studies, 1978). An excellent translation with very useful notes. Recommended reading for all those who want to study mystical Islam.
Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, translated by Nermin Menemencioglu and Fahir Iz (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1978).
The Poetry of Yunus Emre, a Turkish Sufi Poet, translated by Grace Martin Smith (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1993).
Halman, Talât S. (ed.), Yunus Emre and His Mystical Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981).
Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, translated by Nermin Menemencioglu and Fahir Iz (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1978).
Ansari, Zoe (ed.), Life, Times & Works of Amir Khusrau Dehlavi (New Delhi: National Amir Khusrau Society, 1975).
Fifty Poems of Hafiz, translated by Arthur J. Arberry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947).
Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems, translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs (London: John Murray, 1952).
In Search of Hafiz: 109 Poems from the Diwan of Hafiz, translated by A. J. Alston (London: Shanti Sadan, 1996).
Teachings of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: Octagon Press for the Sufi Trust, 1979).
The Collected Lyrics of Háfiz of Shíráz, translated by Peter Avery (Cambridge: Archetype, 2007).
Kabir: Ecstatic Poems, translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007).
One Hundred Poems of Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore (London: Macmillan, 1915).
Hadland-Davis, Frederick, The Persian Mystics: Jami (New York: Cosimo Books, 2007).
Elias, Jamal J., Death before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1998).
Bulleh Shah: A Selection, translated by Taufiq Rafat (Lahore: Vanguard Publications, 1982).
Sorley, H. T., Shāh Abdul Latīf of Bhit: His Poetry, Life and Times. A Study of Literary, Social and Economic Conditions in Eighteenth-Century Sind (With an English translation of the Risālo) (London: Oxford University Press, 1940).
Gidvani, M. M., Shah Abdul Latif (Whitefish: Kessinger Publish ing, 2003).