Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems (Sufi Series) Book

	Introduction	1
1	Mystical Epigrams	6
	Persian quatrains	6
	The case of Umar-i Khayyam	9
	Baba Tahir Uryan	13
	Shaykh Abu Said	16
	Baba Afzal	19
	The Mukhtar-nama of Attar	21
	Anthologies	23
	Commentaries	24
2	Poems of Abstinence	29
	The qasida in secular and religious poetry	29
	Kisai	32
	Nasir-i Khusrau	34
	Sanai	35
	Sanai's zuhdiyat	38
	Khaqani and other 12th century poets of the qasida	43
	The qasidas of Attar	47
3	Poetry of Love	51
	The theme of love	51
	The ghazal as a prosodic form and as a genre	53
	The ghazal in the history of literature	54
	The scope of ghazal poetry	63
	The ghazal as a mystical poem	68
	Unbelievers and qalandars	71
	A specimen from the ghazal of Hafiz	76
4	Teachers and Story-tellers	84
	The masnavi	84
	Didactical poetry	86
	The masnavi of Sanai	88
	Nizami's Makhzan al-asrar	97
	The masnavis of Attar	99
	Rumi's Masnavi-yi Manavi	108
	Sultan Valad	111
	Sadi's Bustan	113
	Auhadi's Jam-i Jam	115
	Khvaju Kirmani	116
	Gulshan-i raz	118
	Sufi practices	118
	Mystical allegories	121
	The Seven Thrones of Jami	123
	Select Bibliography	128
	Index	135