The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism

by Bilal Orfali, Gerhard Böwering,   

This critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077), is based on a very old manuscript preserved in Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya of Cairo, Egypt and copied in 459/1067. It is introduced by a detailed analytical study of the author and his work. Salwat al-ʿārifīn forms an integral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900423361X
• ISBN13: 9789004233614
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 732 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"