Sufi literature

story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi

thumb|250px| The Masnavi is an extensive Persian masnavi (a poetic form) written by Rumi, and one of the most influential works in the history of Sufism. It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines.

book written by Persian poet Sa'di Shirazi

Persian tragic romance by Nizami Ganjavi

romantic story

Persian poem by Sufi poet Attar

parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant

Large collection of poems by Rumi

thumb|right|A verse from the Qaṣīdat al-Burda, displayed on the wall of al-Busiri's shrine in Alexandria Qasīdat al-Burda (, "Ode of the Mantle"), or al-Burda for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for Muhammad composed by the Shadhili mystic al-Busiri of Egypt. The poem, whose actual title is "The Celestial Lights in Praise of the Best of Creation" (), is famous mainly in the Muslim world. It is entirely in praise of Muhammad, who is said to have been praised ceaselessly by the afflicted poet, to the point that Muhammad appeared in a dream and wrapped him in a mantle or cloak; in th

Tragic romance in Punjabi literature

Persian prose work by Rumi

mystical, perfect divine language, Adamic language, Enochian, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated

Persian biographical book

book on collection of Islamic prayers and praises to Muhammad

Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet (1859–1937)

book by the Persian poet Jami

book by Ibn Arabi

Tale of fisher woman Noori and Prince Jam Tamachi

book by Qadi Ayyad

tradition of Islamic mystic writing

book by Nizam al-Din Nishapuri

book by Aḥmad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh Abū-Nuʿaim al-Iṣfahānī

Fazail-e-Amaal (), authored by Zakariyya Kandhlawi between 1929 and 1964, is a book that primarily consists of treatises from the Fada'il series, originally published in Urdu. Its purpose is to inspire and motivate Muslims in their religious practices by presenting a diverse range of Islamic teachings, stories, and anecdotes. The book's popularity has led to translations in multiple languages, including English and French, establishing it as a major resource for the Tablighi Jamaat, a transnational pietistic movement. Written at the request of Ilyas Kandhlawi, the founder of Tablighi Jamaat, t

collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the early 13th century

Book by Shah Abdul Latif

book by Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri

sunni Sufi tafsir work authored by Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba

kurdish poet (1356–1431)

thumb|Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati. "Madhumalati" or 'night flowering jasmine' is an Indian Sufi love poem, written in 1545 by Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri. The poem is written in Awadhi dialect.

Book by Al-Ghazali

poem by Ibn Arabi

Manuscript of Ibn Arabi's Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

book by al-Suyuti in defense of Ibn 'Arabi

hagiography of the Sufi shaykh Safi ad-din Ardabili

Majma-ul-Bahrain (, "The Confluence of the Two Seas" or "The Mingling of the Two Oceans") is a Sufi text on comparative religion authored by Mughal Shahzada Dara Shukoh as a short treatise in Persian, c. 1655. It was devoted to a revelation of the mystical and pluralistic affinities between Sufic and Vedantic speculation. It was one of the earliest works to explore both the diversity of religions and a unity of Islam and Hinduism and other religions. Its Hindi version is called Samudra Sangam Grantha and an Urdu translation titled Nūr-i-Ain was lithographed in 1872.

book by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

book by Al-Ghazali

foundation dedicated to studying Ibn Arabi

Turkish specialist in literature (1900-1982)

book by Al-Ghazali