The Sufis

Abjad accepted according activity alchemy allegory ancient Arabic asked attain Attar baraka become believe called century Christian consciousness considered cult dervish disciple divine doctrine East essence exercises experience fact Freemasonry function Ghazali Hindu human Ibn El-Arabi Ibn Masarra ideas illumination illuminist individual inner intellectual Islam Jafar Sadiq Khayyam King knowledge known literature lore magical material Mathnawi means method mind miracles Mohammed Moslem Mulla mystical Naqshbandi Nasrudin Omar ordinary organization original perception Persian person philosophical poem poet poetry R. A. Nicholson Raymond Lully reality realize religion religious ritual Roger Bacon root Rumi Rumi's Saadi sage Saracen says scholars scholastic scholasticism secret Seeker sense Sheikh Simurgh Spain spiritual stage story Sufi master Sufi schools Sufi teacher Sufic Sufism symbolism tajalli tarika teaching things thinking thought tion tradition translated triliteral troubadors truth understanding West Western wisdom word