generations des Soufis

In his book Generations of Sufis, Abu ?Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (died 1021), the Sufi master of Nishapur and Shafi?i traditionist and historian, collected the teachings of 105 Sufi masters who lived between the 2nd/8th and the 4th/10th centuries. Sulami gives a short biography of each master with representative quotations from his teachings. He thereby illustrates the numerous approaches to the spi...