A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century

‘One of the most thorough and intimately engaging books on Sufism to be produced by a Western scholar.’ ‘A masterly study of a man whose sanctity recalled the golden age ofmedieval mystics. In this well documented book Dr Lings draws on manyrare sources… and has made some important original contributions.’ – A. J. Arberry‘What Martin Lings adds by way of commentary is of the greatestsignificance and may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of Islamas a whole.’ – Titus Burckhardt

The late Dr Martin Lings, formerly Keeper of OrientalManuscript at the British Museum and the British Library, is the authorof the best-selling title Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, and of What is Sufism?, The Book of Certainty, Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology, and The Holy Qur’an: Translations of Selected Verses, all published by the Islamic Texts Society.