_E. DENISON ROSS_, _AND_ _IDA W. E. OGILVY GREGORY (formerly GIBB), appointed 1905._ _CLERK OF THE TRUST._ _JULIUS BERTRAM, 14 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, LONDON, S.W._ _PUBLISHERS FOR THE TRUSTEES._ _E. J. BRILL, LEYDEN. LUZAC & CO., LONDON._ CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Page 2, penult. _For_ (p. 3) _read_ (p. 1). p. 3, line 14 and l. 30. _For_ (p. 3) _read_ (p. 1). p. 4, l. 18. _For_ (p. 3) _read_ (p. 1). p. 4, l. 26. _For_ just as the veil destroys revelation _(mukáshafat) read_ just as veiling destroys the unveiled object (_mukáshaf_). p. 6, l. 4 and l. 16. _For_ (p. 3) _read_ (p. 1). p. 51, l. 6. _For_ Parg _read_ Burk _or_ Purg, and correct the note accordingly. See Guy Le Strange, _The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate_, p. 292. p. 54, l. 28. _For_ the infectious cankers of the age _read_ the cankers which infect age after age. p. 85, l. 19. For (_sáḥib al-qulúb_) read (_ṣáḥi´l-qulúb_). _Ṣáḥí_, “sober,” is the antithesis of _maghlúb_, “enraptured.” p. 127, l. 17. _For_ AL-INṬÁKÍ _read_ AL-ANṬÁKÍ. p. 130, l. 27. Although some writers give “Abu ´l-Ḥasan” as the _kunya_ of Núrí, the balance of authority is in favour of “Abu ´l-Ḥusayn”. p. 131, n. 2. _Add_, See Goldziher in _ZDMG._, 61, 75 ff., and a passage in Yáqút’s _Irshád al-Aríb_, ed. by Margoliouth, vol. iii, pt. i, 153, 3 ff.; cited by Goldziher in _JRAS._ for 1910, p. 888. p. 140, l. 19. _For_ ABÚ MUḤAMMAD `ABDALLÁH _read_ ABÚ `ABDALLÁH. p. 155, l. 26. _Omit_ B. _before_ DULAF. p. 169, l. 1. _Omit_ B. _before_ `ALÍ. p. 173, l. 11. _For_ Pádsháh-i _read_ Pádisháh-i. p. 182, l. 26. _Sháhmurghí_ is probably a mistake for _siyáh murghí_, “a blackbird.” Cf. my edition of the _Tadhkirat al-Awliyá_, ii, 259, 23. p. 257, l. 1. For _t`aṭíl_ read _ta`ṭíl_. p. 323, l. 10. _For_ Miṣṣíṣí _read_ Maṣṣíṣí. CONTENTS. CHAPTER. PAGES. Translator’s Preface xvii-xxiv Author’s Introduction 1-9 I. On the Affirmation of Knowledge 11-18 II. On Poverty 19-29 III. On Ṣúfiism 30-44 IV. On the Wearing of Patched Frocks 45-57 V. On the Different Opinions held concerning Poverty 58-61 and Purity VI. On Blame (_Malámat_) 62-9 VII. Concerning their Imáms who belonged to the 70-4 Companions VIII. Concerning their Imáms who belonged to the House 75-80 of the Prophet IX. Concerning the People of the Veranda (_Ahl-i 81-2 Ṣuffa_)