Tasawwuf Books on Spiritual Development
This category is dedicated to Tasawwuf books and works on Islamic spirituality that focus on purification of the heart, good character and drawing closer to Allah. Here you will find classical texts from recognised scholars as well as contemporary titles that make timeless teachings accessible to modern readers.
Our Tasawwuf collection covers themes such as sincerity, reliance on Allah, love of the Prophet ﷺ, dhikr, tazkiyah and spiritual discipline. Many of these books complement titles in the General Islam and Names of Allah categories, providing both foundational knowledge and deeper reflection.
Getting Started with Islamic Spirituality
If you are beginning your journey in Tasawwuf, we recommend starting with shorter introductions that explain core concepts clearly before moving on to more advanced works. You might also wish to pair these books with seerah titles from our Seerah section to see how spiritual principles were embodied in the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
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This English translation presents, for the first time, the illuminating commentary of Sidi Aḥmad Zarrūq—renowned jurist, spiritual guide, and reformer of the Sufi path—on Ḥizb al-Baḥr (“The Litany of the Sea”), the celebrated supplication composed by Imām Abū’l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī. Far more than a line-by-line explanation, Zarrūq’s commentary is a spiritual roadmap that unpacks the theological, spiritual, and…
In the final verses of Surat al-Furqan, Allah describes the special characteristics of those elite human beings whom He has raised to a high status both in this world and in the Hereafter. They are the Slaves of the All-Merciful. They have struggled with their selves and increased their devotion until they have become beloved…
Spiritual Insights presents five classic treatises from the illustrious tradition of the Bā ‘Alawī Sayyids, scholars and spiritual masters of Ḥaḍramawt in southern Yemen, expertly translated with full commentaries.
When a distinguished scholar dies at the Barmakid hospital in Baghdad, nearly everyone points the finger at his enslaved servant Mu’mina, as the one who called a demon to kill him. Tein, a former frontier fighter turned investigator with the Grave Crimes Section, has no time for religion, let alone jinn, and sets out to…
When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as anything other than an attack on the Shia community of Baghdad. The city is on edge as religious and political factions are exposed…
SUFI POEMS A Mediaeval Anthology Compiled and translated by: MARTIN LINGS ISBN (PAPERBACK): 978 1 903682 17 3 PRICE: £13.99 PAGES: 116 SIZE: 234 x 156mm PUBLISHED: August 2004 OTHER: Bilingual Edition: Arabic-English. Please consider buying books at full price as a way of supporting the charitable activities of the ITS. In stock ADD TO BASKET DESCRIPTION Sufi Poems is a selection of…
This biography of the saint and Iman Abdallah al-Haddad takes readers into the fascinating world and spiritual life of 17th- and early 18th-century Yemen. The life of this renown spiritual master—whose teachings and personal example continue to influence lives around the world—is examined, from his early attraction to Sufi poetry and visit to the tomb…
“Epistemology, rationalism, empiricism: the vocabulary which introduces this work would seem to presage a dry academic text and yet that could not be further from an accurate description of this truly remarkable book. By examining the teaching and work of the contemporary Sufi master, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, in conjunction with the intellectual history of the…
Many Muslims look into their hearts today and find a spiritual emptiness. Speeches abound, but when the chairs are folded up and people go home, they find their prayers and inner life as dry as ever. Something is clearly missing. This essay shows that at the centre of the Islamic revelation, there is a brilliant…
Hayakal Al-Nur This treatise on the nature and levels of the human soul considers the limitations of human senses and our true or theomorphic essence; the various realms or Centers, including Absolute Mind as well as Ordinary Mind and Divine Mind; the nature of firmaments; and the meaning of pleasure and pain.
Al-Kuhin s Tabaqat Al-Shadhiliyya Al-Kubra is a collection of biographies of Sufi Masters from the Shadhili Tariqa. Selections are included from other works, and in total details of the lives of nearly 100 of the Awliya spanning some eight centuries are included. The Quran tells us of a category of people for whom there is…
The Big Five in Sufism in India and Pakistan are the illustrious spiritual successors to Asharaf ul Aulia, Sultan-e-Hind, Khwaja-e-Khawjgan, Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, the Holy Saint of Ajmer. The volume embodies authentic biographical accounts of the Holy Saint of Ajmer’s nve Illustrious Khalifas ; and are recognised spiritual successors in Sufi Hierarchy. They carried…
The Book of ‘Amal: The Book of ‘Amal activates the teachings of the first and second books, Tawhid and Hubb. The topic is mu’amala, or behaviour. Shaykh Abdalqadir describes it as the foundation of the Deen, and, again drawing from the Qur’an, describes the essential nature of Nobility and Character over and above structuralism as…
The Book of Hubb by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, may Allah have mercy on him, takes as its the starting-point Allah’s Words in the Qur’an, then drawing on the works of Sufis, such as Shaykh Nasirud-Din, the Chiraghi of Delhi, to delineate the Ten Stages of Love of the Divine. It is the second of four…
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Muslim religious life not only consists of belief in orthodox tenets of faith and a determined effort to follow the Sacred Law, it also requires one to scale the heights of the spiritual path. The Kitab al-Hikam of Shaykh Ibn Ata illah al-Iskandari is the inspiring explanation of the soul s journey through this life,…
Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism – an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God – it describes the consequences of the conference of the…
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