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Schlaglichter über das Sufitum. Abū Naṫr as-Sarrāğs Kitāb al-luma. Introduction, translation and commentary by Richard Gramlich (Freiburger Islamstudien, Band XIII.) pp. 676, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. DM 270.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Alexander Knysh
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1992 , pp. 270 - 272
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1992

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1 Gramlich's previous work — the translation of al-Qushayrī's, “Risāla” (Das Sendschreiben al-Qušlayrī's über das Sufitum, Stuttgart, 1989)Google Scholar was discussed in my review, which appeared in JRAS 1990, no. 2, pp. 386–8.

2 The Kitāb al-Luma' fi 'l-Taṣawwufof Abū Naṣr 'Abdallāh B. 'Alī al-Sarrāj al-Ṭūsī. Ed. by Nicholson, R.A., Gibb, E.J.W. Memorial Series. Vol. XXII, (Leiden and London, 1914).Google Scholar

3 Pages From the Kitāb al-Luma' of Abū Naṣr al-Sarrāj. Being the lacuna in the edition ofR. A. Nicholson. Ed. from the Bankipore MS., by Arberry, A.J., (London, 1947).Google Scholar

4 See my review of his translation of al-Qushayrī's Risāla, where I suggested that after al-Qushayrī the German scholar would probably proceed either to the Kitāb al-luma' by al-Sarrāj, or Qūt al-qulūb by Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī (d. 386/996), another Sufi classic on Nicholson's list.