The Mystics of Islam (repost)

Review
Long considered one of the classic texts in the field respected by both scholars and those … interest[ed] in [Islamic] mysticism. – From a review in the online journal Living Tradition

Nicholson's Mystics of Islam was the first book in the West to offer a lucid … sympathetic picture of Islamic mysticism. – Annnemarie Schimmel, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and author of Mystical Dimensions of Islam