TY - BOOK AU - Shah,Idries TI - Four Sufi classics : : Salaman and Absal, the niche for lights, the way of the seeker, the Abode of spring / SN - 0900860693 AV - BP189. S43 1980 PY - 1980/// CY - London : PB - The Octagon Press, KW - Sufism. KW - Sufism KW - History KW - Sufis KW - Biography KW - 20th century KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Religious life KW - Islam KW - Islam. KW - Sufi parables. KW - Sufi poetry. N1 - Contents: introduction by Idries Shah—I. Salaman and Absal : an allegory of Jami / translated by Edward Fitzgerald—II. The niche of lights : the Mishkat of al-Ghazzali / translated by W.H.T. Gairdner—III. The way of the seeker : the Sair al-ibad ila'l maad of Hakim Sanai / edited, abridged and translated by David Pendlebury—IV. The abode of spring : the Baharistan of Jami / abridged and translated by David Pendlebury. ER -