A literary history of Persia

444 THE SI)Ft MYSTICISMthere are lessons to be learned. How 1 far removed is thisattitude of mind from that of the dogmatic and exclusive creedswhich have hitherto occupied our attention a!*See Religions Systems of the World, p. 325.aAs this subject is of great importance for the understanding of muchthat is best in Persian literature, I here enumerate some of the best booksand treatises on it to which the European reader can refer. I. Translations.'Atiar'sMantiqu't-Tayr (" Language of Birds"), French translationby Garcin de Tassy, Paris, 1864 ;Jalalu'd-Din Riimi's Mathnawf, abridgedtranslation by E. Whinfield (2nd ed., London, Triibner, 1898) Shabistari's;Giilshan-i-Rdz (" Rose-garden of Mystery"), ed. and transl. by Whinfield,Triibner, 1880, one of the best Oriental manuals, with excellent Introductionand illuminating comments ; Jami's Yusuf-u-Zulaykhd, ed. and Germantransl. by V. von Rosenzweig (Vienna, 1824) ; Hafidh, Diwdn, ed. andGerman translation by Rosenzweig-Schwannau (Vienna, 1858-1864), andJohn Payne's English verse transl. published for the Villon Society. II.Original Works. Tholuck's Ssttfismus, sive Theosophia Persarum Pantheisiica(Berlin, 1821) ; Ibid., Bluthensammliing aus dcr MorgenlandischcnMysiik (Berlin, 1825} ; Vaughan's Hours with the Mystics, Book vii ; Hughes'my own article in Religious Systems of theDictionary of Islam, sub voc. ;World, pp. 314-332 Gibb's; History of Ottoman Poetry, vol. i(London,Luzac ; 1900), pp. 53-67. Tljese. bjooks will suffice^ to ^giye the generalreader an adequate and correct notion of the Sufi system.