Intro
Contents
Detailed List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Format and Style
Translations
Transliterations
Referencing
Sourcing Hadiths and Sayings
Abbreviations
ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's Writings
Reference Works
Introduction: A Sage in Exile
Life
Execution
Writings
1. Tamhīdāt (Paving the Path)
2. Nāma-hā (The Letters)
3. [Wāqiʻa-hā] ([Apparitions])
4. Risāla-yi Jamālī (Treatise Dedicated to Jamāl al-Dawla)
5. Zubdat al-ḥaqāʼiq (The Essence of Reality)
6. Shakwā'l-gharīb (The Exile's Complaint)

7. Nuzhat al-ʻushshāq (The Lovers' Excursion)
Reception
The Present Book
1. Autobiography
Discovery
Helplessness
Tasting
Charismatic Gifts
Apparitions
Muhammadan Encounters
2. Counsel and Confession
Advice and Admonition
Criticism
Sandal-Service
Two Defenses
Divine Jealousy
3. Heavenly Matters
The Essence
Rational Proof
Withness
Divine Names and Attributes
Oneness of Existence
Levels of Light
The Goal of Creation
4. Earthly Concerns
Good and Evil
Cosmic Well-Being
Against Dualism
Bad Transmitters

Compulsion and Freedom
Guidance and Misguidance
5. Inside Out, Outside In
Intention and Sincerity
Assent
Purity and Prayer
Fasting
Pilgrimage and Alms Tax
Praise and Gratitude
Imaginalization
Death before Death
6. Wayfarers and Masters
Habit-Worship
Body and Soul
The Heart
The Spirit
Wayfaring and Seeking
Renunciation
The Ripened Master
7. Knowledge Transcendent
Brothers and Mirrors
Knowers and Recognizers
The Scale of the Intellect
Beyond the Intellect
Self-Recognition
Self-Perception
8. Quranic Origins

Paradise Found
Vastness and Worthiness
Knowing and Hearing
The Imprint of Letters
Letters and Dots
Dots, Nothingness, Subsistence
9. Muhammad and Iblis
Periphery to Center
Muhammadan Light
The Black Light of Iblis
Face, Mole, Tresses
Faith and Unbelief
Two Commands
An Ideal Lover
10. Love Transcendent
Love as Guide
Love and Loverhood
Trial and Tribulation
Madness and Burning
The Religion of Love
Levels of Unbelief
Self-Love
In the I of the Beholder
Notes
Bibliography

Works by ʻAyn al-Quḍāt (Editions, Manuscripts, Translations)
Works Misattributed to ʻAyn al-Quḍāt
Scholarship on ʻAyn al-Quḍāt Cited or Consulted
Other Primary Sources
Other Secondary Sources
Indexes
Index of Translated Texts
Index of Quranic Passages
Index of Hadiths, Proverbs, and Sayings
Index of Names and Terms