The Religion of the Sufis

The Religion of the Sufis presents that philosophical classic, the Dabistan, written by a Sufi scholar based in India three hundred years ago. Constantly quoted throughout the Middle East, and widely read ever since, the Dabistan gives an excellent insight into what Sufis of the time gave out as their teaching, and what scholars and others thought of them. It well vindicates its prefatory phrase: ‘containing what has been reported by those who know what is manifest, and see what is concealed; as well as those who are attached to exterior forms, and by those who discern the inward meaning… without hatred, enmity and scorn, and without taking a part for the one, or against the other side of the question’.