By Reynold A. Nicholson

ISBN-10: 0906094372

ISBN-13: 9780906094372

Al-Hujwīrī got here from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the powerful Ghaznavid Empire. He was once a Sufi mystic who travelled commonly within the center East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Majūb used to be most likely written in Lahore, the place he's buried, no longer lengthy prior to his dying in approximately 1074. one of many oldest Sufi works in Persian, it's a colossal treatise aiming to set forth a whole procedure of Sufism. this is often completed partially via the dialogue of acts and asserting of the good figures of the earlier, partially by way of dialogue of gains of doctrine and perform and the exam of the several perspectives followed by way of diverse Sufi colleges. it really is enlivened by way of episodes from the author’s personal experiences.

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