The Arabic alphabet and note on transcription -- The Muslim year -- 1. What is Sufism? -- 2. Historical outlines of classical Sufism -- 3. The path -- 4. Man and his perfection -- 5. Sufi orders and fraternities -- 6. Theosophical Sufism -- 7. The rose and the nightingale: Persian and Turkish mystical poetry -- 8. Sufism in Indo-Pakistan -- 9. Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Letter symbolism in Sufi literature -- Appendix 2. The feminine element in Sufism