Jalāluddīn Rūmī, _Masnavī_, abridged translation by E. H. Whinfield, 2nd ed. (London, 1898). _Masnavī_, Book i., translated by Sir James Redhouse (London, 1881). _Masnavī_, Book ii., translated with commentary by C. E. Wilson (London, 1910). _Selected Odes from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz_, Persian text with English translation, introduction, and notes by R. A. Nicholson (Cambridge, 1898). Mahmūd Shabistarī, _Gulshani Rāz_, Persian text with English translation, introduction, and notes by E. H. Whinfield (London, 1880). A versified exposition of the chief Sūfī doctrines. It should be read by every one who is seriously interested in the subject. Jāmī, _Lawāʾih_, Persian text with translation by E. H. Whinfield and Mīrzā Muhammad Kazvīnī (London, 1906). A prose treatise on Sūfī theosophy. _Yūsuf and Zulaikha_, translated into verse by R. T. H. Griffith (London, 1882). One of the most famous mystical love-romances in Persian literature. Ibn al-ʿArabī, _Tarjumān al-Ashwāq_, a collection of mystical odes. Arabic text with translation and commentary by R. A. Nicholson (London, 1911). INDEX (Titles of books, as well as Arabic and Persian technical terms, are printed in italics.) _Abdāl_, 124. ʿAbdallah Ansārī, 89. ʿAbd al-Rahīm ibn al-Sabbāgh, 89. Abraham, 153. _Abrār_, 124. Absāl, 116. Abū ʿAbdallah of Mosul, 144. Abū ʿAbdallah al-Rāzī, 51. Abū ʿAlī of Sind, 17. Abū Hamza, 62. Abu ’l-Hasan Khurqānī, 87, 133 ff., 145. Abu ’l-Khayr al-Aqtaʿ, 61. Abū Nasr al-Sarrāj, 157. Abū Saʿīd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 49, 90, 118. Adam, 64, 150, 161. ʿAfīfuddīn al-Tilimsānī, 93, 164, 165. _See_ Niffarī. _Ahl al-Haqq_, 1. Ahmad ibn al-Hawārī, 11. _ahwāl_, 29. _Akhyār_, 124. ʿAlāʾuddīn Attār, 143, 144, 146. Alexander of Aphrodisias, 151. _Al-Haqq._ See _Haqq_. ʿAlī, the Caliph, 50, 89, 153. _Ana ’l-Haqq_, 150 ff. _Arabian Nights_, the, 63. ʿArafāt, 91. _ʿārif_, 29. Aristotle, 12. Asceticism, 4, 5, 6, 10, 28 ff., 109. Ashʿarites, the, 6. ʿAttār, Farīduddīn, 106. Audition, 63 ff. See _samāʿ_. Augustine, St., 118. Avicenna, 145, 146. _awliyā_, 122. _Awtād_, 124. Bābā Kūhī, 58. Bābism, 89. Bactria, 16, 18. Baghdād, 149, 157. Balkh, 16. _baqā_, 18, 61, 149, 159, 163, 164, 167. Basra, 14. Bāyazīd of Bistām, 17, 51, 57, 62, 108, 111, 112, 115, 126, 131, 132, 159. Bektāshīs, the, 95. Bishr, 105. Breath, practice of inhaling and exhaling the, 48. Brown, J. P., 141. Browne, Professor E. G., 110. Buddha, 16, 17. Buddhism, 16 ff., 48. _See_ Nirvāṇa. Bulghār, 161. Calendars, the, 90. Celibacy, condemned by Mohammed, 5. China, 161. Christ, 82, 88. _See_ Jesus. Christianity, 4, 5, 10 f., 82, 111, 112, 151, 157. Contemplation, 18, 31, 32, 53, 54 ff., 68. Dancing, 63, 65, 66. Dante, 100.