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Premodern Intercultural Transfers (part I of Western Sufism)

A bust of a philosopher, possibly Plotinus (204-270)
Boethius, Consolations, English copy, fifteenth century
The Arabic Plotinus (Theology of Aristotle)
Manuscript of Ibn Arabi's Futuhat al-Makkiyya from 1317
Manuscript in the hand of Maimonides (Guide)
A German sermon of Eckhart, conceivably in his own hand

Imagining Sufism, 1480-1899 (part II of Western Sufism)

George of Hungary's Treatise, Latin, Nuremberg, 1530
Dervishes bowing to Satan, German translation of Treatise, 1530
1577 dervish in Nicolas de Nicolay
Herbelot, Bibliothèque orientale
Marsilio Ficino (1433-99)
Guillaume Postel (1510-81)
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
Hayy as Philosophus autodidactus, Latin opening
Hayy as Philosophus autodidactus, Arabic opening
Hayy achieves union, 1798
Mahmut the Deist Turkish spy (edition of 1770)
John Toland (1670-1722)
Toland, Clidophorus, title page.
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
Sir William Jones (1746-94)
Graham, Treatise, 1819
Frontispiece to Goethe's West-Oestlicher Divan
Vanmour, dervishes, 1714
Vanmour, dervish, 1714
Gérôme, Whirling Dervishes, 1895
Edward FitzGerald (1809-93)
Ella Hallward, frontispiece to Rubaiyat, 1899
"An angel shape" (Omar cigarettes)
Goble, dervish, 1906
Gordon slain by dervishes, 1885

The Establishment of Sufism in the West, 1910-1933 (part III of Western Sufism)


The Development of Sufism in the New Age (part IV of Western Sufism)

Meher Baba (1894-1969)
J. G. Bennett (1897-1974)
J. G. Bennett with Pak Subuh (1901-87) in 1956
Coombe Springs
Syyed Hossein Nasr (b. 1933)
Idries Shah (1924-96)
Idries Shah with Robert Graves in 1970
1964 re-edition of The Sufis
Johannes Witteveen (b. 1921) in 1963
Sufi Sam Lewis (1896-1971)
Sufi Sam in San Francisco
Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004)
Fazal Inayat-Khan (1942-90)
J. G. Bennett in Istanbul with Muzaffer Ozak
Hasan Lütfi Şuşud
Abdalqadir as-Sufi [Ian Dallas] (b. 1930)
Maliki fiqh conference
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