Aydogan Kars, Ph.D. (2016) is a Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. His first book, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam was awarded a Special Mention of Excellence for the 2019 Alberigo Award by the European Academy of Religion.Ashkan Bahrani is PhD candidate of religious studies in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His main field of research is premodern Sufism as well as method and theory in the study of religion.

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables, Figures and IllustrationsGeneral Introduction1 Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba: al-Suhrawardī’s Mentors in Sufism1 Introduction: Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī2 Companionship and the Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī3 Notes on the Edition4 Arabic Edition and English Translation of Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba5 Analysis: The Immediate Masters of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī in the Genealogy6 Reconstruction of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī’s Training and Travels7 Abū al-Najīb al-Suhrawardī’s Genealogy of Companionship8 Conclusion2 Irshād al-Murīdīn wa Injād al-Ṭālibīn1 Introduction2 Irshād al-Murīdīn: What Is in a Title?3 Reception4 Technical Observations and Edition Information5 Arabic Critical Edition of Irshād al-Murīdīn6 English Translation of Irshād al-Murīdīn: Chapters on the Attire and Travel3 Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr1 Introduction: Majd al-Dīn al-Baghdādī and al-Suhrawardī2 Reception3 Sources4 Notes on the Arabic Edition and the Manuscripts: Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr and Risāla fī-l-Sulūk5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr6 The Persian Text of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr in MS Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 15894 Al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya fī-l-Rūḥ1 Introduction2 Debates on the Spirit in Thirteenth Century Central Asian Sufism3 Gender, Familial and Ontological Hierarchies4 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya6 Persian Text of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya5 Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr1 Introduction2 Poverty and Affluence3 Reception4 Notes on the Edition5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr6 Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd1 Introduction2 Persian Text and English Translation of Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd7 Futūḥāt1 Introduction2 Transmission3 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition4 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of the Futūḥāt8 Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān1 Introduction2 Notes on the Edition and the Manuscripts of Ṣifat-i Khalvat3 Persian Critical Edition and English Translation of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān4 Turkish Text of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān in MS Hacı Selim Ağa9 Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī1 Introduction2 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī10 Sharḥ al-Faqr1 Introduction: Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān al-Abharī and al-Suhrawardī2 Arabic Critical Edition of Sharḥ al-Faqr11 Risāla dar Tavba1 Introduction2 Persian Text and an English Translation of Risāla dar Tavba12 Ijāza ilā Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī1 Introduction: Multān and the Transmission of the ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif2 Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī3 Arabic Text and an English Translation of Ijāza ilā Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ13 Manuscript Information1 Opera Suhrawardiana2 Other ManuscriptsIllustrationsBibliographyIndex of Qurʾānic VersesIndex of PersonsGeneral Index