Articles by Dialogues

Views: 1This first text on the theme of the friend introduces the theme of union. This is an important theme for mystics of every tradition […]

Views: 1Here’s one of the best-known texts in Persian literature. It is the first chapter of the Mathnawi, the great work by Jalāl ed-Dīn Muḥammad […]

Views: 1The spiritual masters of Persian Sufism are experts at analyzing the stages the soul goes through in its search for the Beloved. This is […]

Views: 1One of the most illustrious figures of tenth- to eleventh-century Persia is shaykh Abū Sa’yd Abu el-Khayr (967 – 1049), a native of Khorasan, […]