Table of Contents
Winter 1988–89
The first issue of the Sufi Journal introduces Sufism as a living path rooted in love, guidance, and direct experience.
The Editor’s Note emphasizes that while poetry and stories inspire, true understanding comes through the master–disciple relationship.
Articles and poems explore prayer, surrender, and the enduring influence of Rumi and the Nimatullahi Order.
Together, the contributions affirm Sufism’s core values of remembrance, service, and compassion in daily life.
General
- Editor’s Note
Discourse
- The Sufi’s Prayer and Fasting — Text of a Speech by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
Articles
- Revisiting Mawlana Rumi and Konya — by Annemarie Schimmel
- The Nematollahi Order — by Alireza Nurbakhsh
- Taslim, or Becoming the Ball Not the Bat — by Jeffrey Rothschild
- The Influence of Sufism on Music in Islamic Countries — by Terry Graham
- The Man Who Sold the World — by Kristina Una Amadeus
- Mohammad Shirin Maghrebi — by Leonard Lewisohn
Poetry
- Love and the Heart — A poem by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
- The Spell of the Ego — A poem by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
- The House of the Sufi — A poem by Caroline McCutcheon
Stories
- The Old Harpist — A Tale from Rumi’s Mathnawi, by Ali A. Mazhari