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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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