The Sufis

The Sufis is the first authoritative, responsible book on Sufism, and as such it fills a colossal gap in Western documentation of Eastern subjects. Following a mystical teaching and a way of life that have had an enormous, though largely unrecognized, impact on both the East and the West for four thousand years, the Sufis believe not that theirs is a religion, but that it is religion. This belief includes conscious evolution, whereby through an effort of will man can originate new faculties - th…