लेखक: Robert Frager

"A welcome addition to the literature on Islam . . . Reading through the many entries, one gets a feeling for the beauty and deep wisdom of the Sufis." -Library Journal The definitive …

Once a woman brought her son to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating …

"I have heard of a seeker who went to ask a sage for guidance on the Sufi way. The old man said to him: ‘If you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and …