Lewisohn L (ed.) The Heritage of Sufism, Volume II: The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150-1500)

Oneworld Publications, 1999. — 448 p.The purpose of the present volume is to examine the roots of the artistic, literary, and cultural renaissance in the three centuries immediately preceding the Safavid period (1501-1720), which was accompanied by the great expansion of various Persian-speaking Sufi orders, and caused the blossoming of an entire literature of Sufism. In many respects, this focus on the religious topography of the Persian society of the medizeval period which was predominantly 'Sufi' in orientation, is unique, for the spiritual and cultural renaissance in these three centuries (1200- 1500) has never before been the subject of a monograph - much less of a volume of essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field.