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1	The Gift of Rumi by Emily Jane O'Dell 4.22 avg rating — 149 ratings score: 400, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories by Zain Hashmi (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 167 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife (Book XL of The Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.55 avg rating — 577 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy & Contentment (Book XXVI of The Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.69 avg rating — 95 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires (Books XXII and XXIII of The Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.59 avg rating — 670 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Book of Aphorisms: Being a translation of Kitab al-Hikam by Ibn ʻAta' Allah al-Iskandari 4.33 avg rating — 3,332 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness (Book XXXVII of The Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.70 avg rating — 137 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Al-Ghazali on Vigilance Self-Examination (Book XXXVIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.61 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Degrees of the Soul: Spiritual Stations on the Sufi Path by Shaykh Abd Al-Khaliq Al-Shabrawi 4.55 avg rating — 53 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace by Harsha Yardi (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Symphonies of Theophanies: Moroccan Meditations by Peter Dziedzic 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years by Idries Shah 4.29 avg rating — 726 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Discourses of Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 4.26 avg rating — 2,060 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Masnavi: Book One by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 4.41 avg rating — 1,448 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Love is a Traveller and We Are its Path by Medina Tenour Whiteman 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Essential Sufism by James Fadiman (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 990 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Alchemy of Happiness by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.11 avg rating — 3,140 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi by Mahmood Jamal (Translator, Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 354 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Confessions of Al-Ghazali: Rescuer from Error by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.08 avg rating — 3,318 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Farid ad-Din ‘Attār’s Memorial of God's Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (Classics of Western Spirituality by Attar of Nishapur 4.27 avg rating — 1,004 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Translator/Commentary) 4.26 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Naqshbandi Sufi Way: History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani 4.63 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Marvels of the Heart: Science of the Spirit (Book XXI of The Revival of the Religious Sciences) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.46 avg rating — 231 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi by Henry Corbin 4.30 avg rating — 397 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	A Sufi Study of Hadith by Ashraf Ali Thanwi 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Ibn ‘Ata’ Illah/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari: The Book of Wisdom and Kwaja Abdullah Ansari, Intimate Conversations (Classics of Western Spirituality by Ibn ʻAta' Allah al-Iskandari (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Spiritual Verses by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 4.44 avg rating — 4,201 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Illuminating Guidance on the Dropping of Self-Direction by Ibn ʻAta' Allah al-Iskandari 4.38 avg rating — 771 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Selected Poems by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 3.98 avg rating — 1,189 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 4.25 avg rating — 116 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 4.15 avg rating — 92 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	A Collection of Sufi Rules of Conduct by Abu Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Drink of the People of Purity in Prayers upon the Chosen Prophet by Muhammad bin Al-Qasim al-Qandusi 4.94 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Sublime Revelation by Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani 4.16 avg rating — 474 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Mukhtasar Ihyâ’ ‘ulûm ad-dîn by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.39 avg rating — 3,454 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Book of the Secret of Secrets and the Manifestation of Lights by Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani 4.35 avg rating — 723 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Beginning of Guidance by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 4.47 avg rating — 1,553 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars