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 innovative study deals with he hitherto unnoticed, reflections of classical Sufism in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century as parallelisms and congruent images. Sufic echoes and images have subsisted in the Western literature, for centuries and influenced its creative imagination. The present critical discourse, the only work on the subject…
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…
In this deeply learned work, Toshihiko Izutsu compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, although historically unrelated, the two share features and patterns which prove fruitful for a transhistorical dialogue. His original and suggestive approach opens new doors in the study of comparative philosophy and mysticism. Izutsu begins with…
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…
The story of Nizamuddin Aulia from man to saint, vividly bringing alive the history of the period The Book of Nizamuddin Aulia reveals the life and teachings of the most beloved and revered of medieval Sufi saints. Nizamuddin Aulia was born in 1236, in great poverty. He grew up in a tumultuous world and saw…
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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…
I advise all of you, elite and common, men and women, old and young, slaves and free, to follow what Allah has commanded you. It is that you do not delay the prayer beyond its proper time, and that you allow yourselves no indulgence in delaying it. You should pray in a group and not…
The Diwan of the Shaykh and Gnostic of Allah Sayyidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib al-Amghari al-Idrisi al-Hasani is here made available in the first ever complete Arabic-English edition of the full Diwan. It is 21.6cm by 14cm (5.5 by 8.5 inches), 500 pages and in a sturdy casebound binding. It comprises the author’s own sublime introduction…
The Diwan – Bughyat al-Murideen as-Saa’ireen wa Tuhfat as-Salikeen al-‘Arifeen –The Desire of Journeying Murids and the Gift to Wayfaring Gnostics The Diwan of the Shaykh and Gnostic of Allah Sayyidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib al-Amghari al-Idrisi al-Hasani is here made available in the first ever complete Arabic-English edition of the full Diwan. It is 21.6cm by 14cm (5.5 by 8.5…
The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes for thousands of years. Though on the surface these often appear to be little more than fairy or folk tales, the Sufis hold that they enshrine-in their characters, plots and imagery-patterns and relationships that nurture a part of the mind not reachable in more…
‘Sufism is the science of the journey to the King.’ ‘The sufi is universal. He has reduced and then eliminated the marks of selfhood to allow a clear view of the cosmic reality. He has rolled up the cosmos in its turn and obliterated it. He has gone beyond.’ ‘If you seek power or renown…
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