Claud Field

Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field

Publisher Marketing: This book is a beautiful description of the lives of Islam's most notable people throughout history. Contents Include: I. PANTHEISTIC SUFISM II. HASAN BASRI III. RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI IV. IBRAHIM BEN ADHAM V. FUDHAYL BEN AYAZ VI. BAYAZID BASTAMI VII. ZU'N NUN OF EGYPT VIII. MANSUR HALLAJ IX. HABIB AJAMI X. AVICENNA (IBN SINA) XI. AL GHAZZALI XII. FARIDUDDIN ATTAR XIII. SUHRAWARDY XIV. JALALUDDIN RUMI XV. SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN XV. MULLAH SHAH APPENDIX I. MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS II. EXPOSITION OF SUFISM III. CHRISTIAN ELEMENTS IN MOHAMMEDAN LITERATURE IV. CHRIST IN MOHAMMEDAN TRADITION Contributor Bio:  Field, Claud Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: 31 March 1809 - 4 March 1852, was a Russian Empire dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose," "Viy," "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," "The Portrait" and "The Carriage," round out the tally of his best-known works.