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Field Claud. Mystics and Saints of Islam
Mystics and Saints of Islam
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
I.—THE IMPORT OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM
II.—EARLIER PHASES
III.—THE LOVE OF GOD AND ECSTASY
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI
CHAPTER IV
IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM PRINCE OF BALKH (d 875)
CHAPTER V
FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ, THE HIGHWAYMAN (d 803 ad)
CHAPTER VI
BAYAZID BASTAMI (d 874 ad)
CHAPTER VII
ZU'N NUN OF EGYPT (d 860 ad)
CHAPTER VIII
MANSUR HALLAJ (d 922 ad)
CHAPTER IX
HABIB AJAMI (d 773 ad)
CHAPTER X
AVICENNA (IBN SINA) (ad 980–1037)
"THE SOUL
CHAPTER XI
AL GHAZZALI (ad 1058—1111)
CHAPTER XII
FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (ad 1119–1229)
story of the sheikh sanaan
the angel gabriel and the infidel
the clay of which man is made
the dead criminal
anecdote of bayazid bastami
CHAPTER XIII
SUHRAWARDY54 (1153–1191 ad)
CHAPTER XIV
JALALUDDIN RUMI
CHAPTER XV
SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN (ad 1550)
CHAPTER XVI
MULLAH SHAH (d 1661)
APPENDIX I
MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS
APPENDIX II
A MOHAMMEDAN EXPOSITION OF SUFISM BY IBN KHALDOUN
APPENDIX III
CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE
APPENDIX IV
CHRIST IN MODAMMEDAN TRADITION
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Claud Field
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The ecstatic bent of mind of the ascetics of Islam and the later Sufis arose from these beginnings. Then, as now, self-originated phases of feeling were attributed to outer causes; from the remotest times men have sought without them the Divinity which they carried within.
The wider spread and greater permanence of ecstatic phenomena among the Moslems than elsewhere was due to the concurrence of various conditions, chief among which was the peculiar temperament of the Arab. Capable of the fiercest momentary excitement, he quickly subsided into a state of complete apathy which is pain-proof. I6 have a lively recollection of the cases mentioned by my late friend Dr. Bilharz, who spoke of the astonishing anæsthesia which the patients in the medical school of Kasr al 'ain in Cairo, where he was professor, exhibited under the most painful operations. They uttered hardly a sound when operated upon in the most sensitive nerve-centres. The negro, notoriously excitable as he is, and therefore still more exposed to complete prostration of the organs of feeling, exhibits this apathy in a yet more marked degree than the Arab and Egyptian. Many examples of this are found in old Arabic authors—e.g., in the narratives of the martyrdoms of Hatyt, of Hellaj and of a young Mameluke crucified in 1247 a.d. Of the last Suyuti has preserved a psychologically detailed description.
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