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Studies in Islamic Mysticism

By Reynold A. Nicholson

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Names and Titles

Arabic names to which the definite article al- is prefixed will be found under their initial letter. Titles of books and poems are printed in italics.

‘Abdu ’l-Karím, Khwája, 47, 67

‘Abdu ’l-Qádir al-Jílí (Jílání, Gílání), 81, 115, 141

‘Abdu ’l-Ra?mán, son of Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 165

‘Abdu ’l-Ra?mán, Ustád, 65

‘Abdu ’l-?amad, 14

‘Abdu ’l-Walí, Mawlaví, 48

Abíward, 17

Abraham, 132, 133, 137, 173, 201, 214, 253

Abú ’l-‘Abbás Bashshár, 55

Abú ’l-‘Abbás Qa??áb, 11, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 66

Abú ‘Alí, Sayyid, 27

Abú ‘Alí  (?), 18

Abú ‘Alí Daqqáq, 29, 24

Abú ‘Alí ?áhir, 6, 7, 8

Abú Bakr Is?áq Karrámí, 29-32

Abú ’l-Fa?l ?asan, of Sarakhs, 7, 8-12, 14, 15, 17, 23-25, 62

Abú ’l-Khayr, father of Abú Sa‘íd, 3, 4

Abú Na?r al-Sarráj, of ?ús, 10, 58. See Kitáb al-Luma‘

Abú Sa‘íd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 1-76. See Index of Subjects

Abú Sa‘íd, Shaykhu ’l-Islám, grandson of Abú Sa‘íd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 25, 59

Abú ?áli? Dandání, Pír, 47

Abú ?áhir, eldest son of Abú Sa‘íd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 15, 24, 35, 36, 43, 44, 70

Abú Zayd of Sarúj, 198, 257

Adam, 54, 78, 79, 80, 87, 97, 106, 109, 111, 112, 113, 119-122, 124, 130, 136, 140, 149, 155, 186, 187, 198, 205, 206, 223, 229, 240, 242, 245, 252, 255, 265

A?mad, a name of the Prophet, 204, 229. See Mohammed

A?mad, son of Abú ’l-?asan Kharaqání, 43

A?mad ‘Alí Nasawí, 19

A?mad Najjár, 17

A?mad Na?r, Shaykh, 19

Ahriman, 163, 242

‘Alí, grandson of Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 264, 165

‘Alí ibn Abí ?álib, the Prophet's son-in-law, 10, 226

‘Álij, 182

Ámul, 11, 17, 21, 23, 28, 66

Andrae, Tor, 111

Angelo, Michael, 262

‘Anqá, the, 83, 93

A?ra Mainyu, 263

‘Aqíq, valley of, 170

‘Arafát, 222

Arnold, Matthew, 9

Ash‘arites, the, 254

Asia Minor, 72

Asmá, 113

Asráru ’l-taw?íd fí maqámáti ’l-Shaykh Abí Sa‘íd, by Mu?ammad ibnu ’l-Munawwar, 1-3

Átháru ’l-bilád, by Qazwíní, 76

‘A??ár, Farídu'ddín, 3, 42, 262

Avicenna, 42

‘Ayniyya, the, by Jílí, 90, 143 foll. See al-Nawádiru ’l-‘ayniyya fi l-bawádiri ’l-ghaybiyya

‘Ayyárí, Abú Mu?ammad, 4

‘Ayyárí, Abú Sa‘íd, 4

‘Azázíl, 120. See Iblís

al-Azhar, mosque, 165

Azrael, the Angel of Death, 111, 116, 117, 123

‘Azza, 113, 222, 223

 

Bábá, Kúhí, of Shíráz, 48

Badr, in the ?ijáz, 174

Badru’ddín al-Shahíd, 113

Baghdád, 10, 66, 105, 252, 162

Bákú, 57

Balkh, 65

Bashkhwán, 74, 75

Bashkhwání, Bú ‘Amr, 74, 75

Basra, 10

Báward, 17

Báyazíd-i Bis?ámí, 44, 76. See al-Bis?ámí

Bigg, C., 142

Bishr-i Yásín, Abú ’l-Qá?im, 4, 5

Bis?ám, 44, 76

al-Bis?ámí, Abú Yazíd, 77. See Báyazíd-i Bis?ámí

Black, J. S., 163

Blake, W., 167 Blochet, E., 195

Böhme, Jacob, 94, 103

Bousset, W., 86, 87

Brockelmann, C., 99

Browne, Prof. E. G., 61, 165, 170

Bú ‘Abdallah Bákú, Shaykh, 57, 58

Bú ‘Alí Turshízí, 36

Bú ‘Amr, 40

Bu ’l-Khayr, Bábú. See Abú ’l-Khayr

Bu ’l-Qásimak, 31

Bú ?áhir. See Abú ?áhir

Bukhárá, 66

Bulghár, 124

al-Búríní, ?asan, 162, 168, 186

Buthayna, 223, 224

 

Caird, E., 96

Cairo, 164, 165

Caspian, the, 81

Catherine of Siena, St, 167

Christ, 87, 104, 135, 140, 187. See Jesus

 

al-Da?dá?, Rushayyid b. Ghálib, 162

Dajjál, 135

Dámghán, 44

Dandání, Pír Abú ?áli?, 47

Dante, 191

?árij, 183

Darra-i Gaz, 17

David, 123, 137, 161

Dáwud ?á’í, 10, 11

De Lagrange, Grangeret, 165, 166

De return natura, 191

De Sacy, Silvestre, 165

De Slane, Baron, 164, 168

Deussen, Paul, 103

Di Matteo, Sac. Ignazio, 162

Di?ya al-Kalbí, 219, 225

Díván-i Shams-i Tabríz, by Jalálu’ddín Rúmí, 80, 168, 233, 259

Dozy, R., 29

 

Eckhart, 51, 212

Egypt, 165, 181

Elijah, 73

Ethé, H., 4, 48

Eve, 223

 

Farídu’ddín ‘A??ár. See ‘A??ár

Fawcett, E. D., 94

Flügel, G., 93, 195

Furátí, Abú ’l-Fa?l, 41

Fu?ú?u ’l-?ikam, by Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí, 77, 83, 88, 91, 96, 100, 115, 130, 134, 136, 141, 149-161

al-Futú?átu ’l-Makkiyya, by Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí, 77, 82, 88

 

Gabriel, 111, 116, 219, 225

Gairdner, W. H. T., 111

Gaz, valley, 17

Gerson, 51

Ghazálí, 80, 111, 150

Ghazna, 29, 33

Ghiyáthu’ddín Mu?ammad ibn Sám, Ghúrid prince, 1

al-Ghuwayr, 183

Ghuzz, the, a Turcoman tribe, 2, 20, 27, 45, 73

Gibb, E. J. W., 62, 111

Gílán, 81

Goldziher, Prof. I., 81, 82

Gospel, the, 137-140, 240, 263

Gulshani ráz, by Ma?múd Shabistarí, 263

 

?abíb-i ‘Ajamí, 10, 11

Hafiz, 162

?ájir, 182

?álát ú Sukhunán-i Shaykh Abú Sa‘íd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 1-3

?alláj, ?usayn ibn Man?úr, 32, 54, 79, 80, 88, 107, 121, 158, 193, 230. See Kitáb al-?awásín

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, 162. See Von Hammer

?anafites, the, 29

Haneberg, D., 195

?arírí, 198, 257, 258

Hartmann, Richard, 34, 53, 73, 220, 238, 256

?asan of Basra, 10, 11

?asan-i Mu’addib, 27, 29, 30, 32, 35-40, 42

Hegel, 89, 94, 118

?ijáz, the, 36, 164, 181, 182

Hind, 113

Hippolytus, 77

?írí, Abú ‘Uthmán, 19

Hirschfeld, H., 110

Holofernes, 177

?ubbí, Pír, 47

Hujwírí, 3, 22, 34, 58, 79. See Kashf al-ma?júb

al-?u?rí, Abú ‘Abdallah, 6

Iblís, 54, 72, 112, 117, 119, 120, 121, 124. See Satan

Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí, 77, 82, 83, 88, 93, 99, 10I, 102, 103, 107, 115, 119, 134, 136, 138, 141, 142, 149-161, 164, 169, 184, 193, 257, 263

Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 119, 162-266

Ibn Khallikán, 164, 168

Ibn Síná, 42

Ibn Surayj, 6

Idrís, the prophet, 123

I?yá, the, of Ghazálí, 80

Ikhwánu ’l-?afá, 139

India, 81

Inge, W. R., 128

al-Insánu ’l-kámil, by Jílí, 77 foll., 149, 194

Iqbál, Dr Mu?ammad, 77, 94

Íshí Nílí, 69, 70

Ismá‘ílak-i Daqqáq, 35

Ismá‘ílís, the, 61

Israelites, the, 179

Isráfíl, 115, 123. See Seraphiel

I??ilá?átu ’l-?úfiyya, by ‘Abdu ’l-Razzáq al-Káshání, 94

 

al-Jabartí, Sharafu’ddín, Ismá‘íl ibn Ibráhím, 81, 87, 105, 118

Jacob, the prophet, 201, 253

Jalálu’ddín Rúmí, 80, 159, 162, 167, 168, 180. See Díván-i Shams-i Tabríz and Masnaví-i ma‘naví

Jámí, 3, 162

Jamíl, 224

Jerusalem, 66

Jesus, 25, 110, 123, 137, 139, 140, 141, 253, 255. See Christ

Jílán, 81

Jílí, ‘Abdu ’l-Karím, author of the Insánu ’l-kámil, 77-148, 149, 153, 157, 160, 193, 263

Jílí (Jílání, Gílání), ‘Abdu ’l-Qádir, 81, 115, 141

Job, 158, 201

John, the Baptist, 25

John, St, 88

Jonah, 245

Jones, Sir William, 49, 165

Joseph, the prophet, 123

Junayd, of Baghdád, 10, 11, 159

Jurjání, 93, 118

Juwayní, Abú Mu?ammad, 73

 

Ka‘ba, the, 15, 25, 36, 44, 62, 213, 214, 222, 238

Kalím (Kalímu’llah), 229. See Moses

Kamálu’ddín Mu?ammad, son of Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 165

Karrámís, the, 28

Káshání, ‘Abdu ’l-Razzáq, 94, 149, 162, 193, 194, 199 foll.

Kashf al-ma?júb, by Hujwírí, 3, 22, 24, 34, 61, 79, 152, 208, 221, 226, 244, 254, 262

Kashfu ’l-sirri ’l-ghámi? fí shar?i Díwán Ibni ’l-Fári?, by ‘Abdu ’l-Ghaní al-Nábulusí, 162

Kashfu ’l-wujúhi ’l-ghurr li-ma‘ání na?mi ’l-durr, by ‘Abdu ’l-Razzáq al-Káshání, 162

Ká?ima, 182

Kha?ir, the prophet, 13, 66, 82, 124, 141

Khamriyya, the, of Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 165, 183-188

Khánaqáh-i Saráwí, at Nasá, 19

Kharaqán, 26, 42-44

Kharaqání, Abú ’l-?asan, 26, 42-44, 76

al-Kharráz, Abú Sa‘íd, 152

Kháwarán, 3

al-Khayf, 181

Khoten, 66

Khurásán, 2, 3, 19, 20, 38, 76

Khurqán. See Kharaqán

Khurqání, Abú ’l-?asan. See Kharaqání

Kitáb al-Luma‘, by Abú Na?r al-Sarráj, 34, 61, 96, 200, 220, 230, 238, 244, 254

Kitáb al-?awásín, by ?alláj, 54, 79, 80, 107, 121, 136, 139, 142, 193

Koran, the, 4, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 25, 28, 32, 37, 43, 46, 51, 56, 59, 60, 62, 64, 75, 78, 79, 82, 87, 92, 104, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 120, 123, 126, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 149, 151, 157, 159, 173, 179, 197, 200, 201, 205, 206, 209, 223, 225, 226, 228, 230, 231, 235, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 253, 256, 259, 261, 263, 264, 265

Kúshí, 81

Kuthayyir, 222-224

 

La‘la‘, 182

Lane, E., 94

Law, H. D. Graves, 48

Laylá, 127, 222

Le Strange, G., 26

Lees, Nassau, 3, 19

Loosen, Paul, 6

Loth, O., 77, 81

Lubná, 222, 223

Lucretius, 191

al-Luma‘, by Abú Na?r al-Sarráj. See Kitáb al-Luma‘

Luqmán, of Sarakhs, 6, 7

Lyall, Sir C., 163

Ma‘arrí, Abú ’l-‘Alá, 160, 162

Macdonald, Prof. D. B., 28, 57, 73, 79, 119, 129, 154, 188, 233, 236

Mackail, J. W., 167

al-Madaní, A?mad ibn Mu?ammad, 77

Ma?múd-i Muríd, Khwája, 27

Ma?múd Shabistarí, 263

Majnún, 222

Malámatís, the, 208

Maqám Ibráhím, 214

Maqámát, of ?arírí, the, 257

Ma‘rúf Karkhí, 10

Marwa, 239

Mary, the mother of Jesus, 140

Masnaví-i ma‘naví, by Jalálu’ddín Rúmí, 159, 168, 259

Massignon, L., 54, 79, 80, 81, 107, 121, 136, 139, 142, 193

Mas‘úd, Amír, 41, 42

Mayhana, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 24, 26-29, 43, 45, 65, 69, 72, 73, 74. See Mihna

Mecca, 25, 43, 44, 61, 62, 66, 74, 164, 165, 174, 179, 181, 183, 222, 239

Medina, 66, 170, 174

Meleager, 167

Merv, 6, 12, 17, 65

Mesopotamia, 257

Michael, 111, 118, 123

Mihna, 2, 18. See Mayhana

al-Miná, 181

Mishkátu ’l-anwár, by Ghazálí, 111

Mohammed, the Prophet, 5, 6, 9, 11, 15, 19, 25, 29, 47, 50, 59, 67, 78, 79, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 94, 104, 105, 106, 109, 110, 112-120, 123, 129, 130, 132, 135-139, 141, 157, 168, 172, 174, 187, 188, 194, 195, 198, 206, 219, 223, 225, 226, 227, 229, 239, 240, 241, 245, 248, 252-255, 264. See Index of Subjects

Moses, 123, 137, 139, 141, 200, 226, 229, 243, 253, 263

al-Mudabbir, angel, 111

al-Mufa??il, angel, 111

Mu?ammad, the Prophet. See Mohammed

Mu?ammad, ?ájib, 38, 39

Mu?ammad (ibn) ‘Alí (Ulayyán) al-Nasawí, 19

Mu?ammad Fa?l, 17

Mu?ammad ibnu ’l-Munawwar, I, 25

Mu?yi’ddín Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí. See Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí

Mu‘jamu ’l-buldán, by Yáqút, 6

Munro, H. A. J., 192

Muqa??am, Mt, 164

Murta‘ish, of Baghdád, 10

Musil, A., 139

Mutanabbí, 162, 166

Mu?affar, Khwája, son of Abú Sa‘íd ibn Abi ’l-Khayr, 44

 

al-Nábulusí, ‘Abdu ’l-Ghaní, 162, 164, 168, 172, 184, 187, 199 foll.

Nafa?átu ’l-Uns, by Jámí, 3, 19

Najd, 182

Najjár, Khwája, 47

Nallino, Prof. C. A., 162, 164, 168, 177, 186, 200, 207, 214, 221, 238, 260

al-Naqá, 182

Nasá, 4, 17-19

al-Nasawí, A?mad ‘Alí, 19

al-Nasawí, Mu?ammad (ibn) ’Ulayyán, 19

al-Na?rábádí, Abú ’l-Qásim, 14

al-Nawádiru ’l-‘ ayniyya fi ’l-bawádiri ’l-ghaybiyya, by Jílí, 99, 143. See ‘Ayniyya

Na?mu ’l-sulúk, by Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 165, 169, 188. See al-Tá’iyyatu ’l-kubrá

Newman, Cardinal, 163

Níshápúr, 14, 22, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 41-45, 57, 59, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 73

Ni?ámu ’l-Mulk, 27

Noah, 201, 253

Nöldeke, Prof. Th., 163

Nu‘m, 183, 187

al-Nún, angel, 111

Nyberg, H. S., 94, 104, 110, 111, 121, 122, 123

 

Omar Khayyam, I, 77

Origen, 149

Ormuzd, 163, 242

 

Pascal, 9

Pentateuch, the, 137-139. See Torah

Petrarch, 167

Philo, 77, 82, 138, 142, 149

Plato, 22, 137, 174, 223, 259, 265

Plotinus, 153

Prophet, the. See Mohammed

Psalms, the, 137

Púshangán, 41

 

al-Qaffál, Abú Bakr, 6

Qá’in, 60

Qá’iní, Mu?ammad, Khwája, 60, 61

Qays, 222, 224

Qazwíní, 76

Qushayrí, Abú ’l-Qásim, 26, 33-36, 58, 73, 77. See Hartmann

 

Rayy, 44

Republic, of Plato, the, 223 

al-Risálatu ’l-Qushayríyya fí ‘ilmi ’l-ta?awwuf, 33, 77

Ribá?-i Kuhan, 12, 13

Rúm, 72

Russell, Bertrand, 82

Ruysbroeck, 55

 

?ábúní, Ismá‘íl, 73

?addá, 226

Sa‘dí, 162

?afá, 239

?á‘id, Qá?í, 29-32

Sal‘, 182

Sale, G., 174

Salmá, 113

Sam‘ání, 18

Saná’í, 162

Sarakhs, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 23, 24, 62

Sarí Saqa?í, 10

al-Sarráj, Abú Na?r, of ?ús, 10, 58. See Kitáb al-Luma‘

Sarúj, 257

Satan, 131, 223. See Iblís

Schopenhauer, 94

Sellar, W. Y., 192

Seraphiel, 111, 115. See Isráfíl

Seth, 156

Shadharátu ’l-dhahab, 164

al-Shádhilí, Abú ’l-?asan, 210. See Haneberg

Sháfi‘ites, the, 29

Shah Mayhana, 17, 18

Sháhína, 18

Shám-i kúchak, a name given to Nasá, 18

Shámína, 18

Shelley, 176

Shi‘b ‘Ámir, 183

Shiblí, Shaykh, 66, 105

Shí‘ites, the, 29

Shíráz, 48

Shirwán, 57, 74

Shirwání, Bú Na?r, 73, 74

Sidney, Sir Philip, 175

Siegfried, C., 138

Sinai, Mt, 200, 226, 228, 245

Solomon, 123, 253

Song of Solomon, the, 168

Sparrow, John, 103

Spenta Mainyu, 163

Sprenger, A., 94 Subkí, 6

al-Suhrawardí, Shihábu’ddín Abú ?af? ‘Umar, 165

al-Sulamí, Abú ‘Abú al-Ra?mán, of Níshápúr, 14, 19, 22, 57

Sulaymá, 182, 183

Syria, 18, 139

 

?abaqátu ’l-Sháfi‘iyya al-kubrá, by Subkí, 6

?abaqátu ’l-Súfiyya, by Abú ‘Abd al-Ra?mán al-Sulamí, 14, 19

?abaristán, 17

Tadhkiratu ’l-Awliyá, by Farídu’ddín ‘A??ár, 3, 42

al-Tá’iyyatu ’l-kubrá, by Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 119, 162, 165, 168, 180, 187, 188-266

al-Tá’iyyatu ’l-?ughrá, by Ibnu ’l-Fári?, 165

Tarasúsí, Abú ‘Alí, 27

Ta‘rífát, the, by Jurjání, 93, 118

Tarjumán al-ashwáq, by Ibnu ’l-‘Arabí, 99, 138, 164, 257, 260

?ayyi’, tribe, 164

Teignmouth, Lord, 165

Torah, the, 240, 263. See Pentateuch

Turshízí, Bú ‘Alí, 36

?ús, 27, 70

 

al-‘Udhayb, 171, 182

U?ud, 15

‘Umar ibnu ’l-Fári?, Sharafu’ddín, 164. See Ibnu ’l-Fári?

Underhill, Evelyn, 167

 

Valerga, P., 165

Von Hammer, Joseph, 188-190, 259. See Hammer-Purgstall

Von Hartmann, 94

Vullers, J. A., 113

 

al-Wa’sá, 182

Wensinck, A. J., 225

Whinfield, E. H., 159, 263

Wordsworth, 161

Wüstenfeld, F., 76

 

Ya?yá ibn Zakariyyá, 25

Yáqút, 6, 18

Yaysama, 19

Yemen, 67, 81

Yú?, 82

Yúnus ibn Mattá, 245

 

Zabíd, 81, 105

Zhukovski, V., 1, 2, 4