Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction  1 Central Objective  2 Content  3 Approach  4 Aims and Target Audience 1 Epistemological Themes  1 Sources of Knowledge. Al-Kifāya fī al-Hidāya by Imam Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī (d. 580 AH/1184 AD)  2 All That the Prophet (May Allah Bless Him and Grant Him Peace) Brought from Allah Is Self-Evident (Badīhī). The Letters of Imam Rabānnī (Al-Maktūbāt al-Rabbāniyya) by Mujaddid al-Alf al-Thānī al-Imam al-Rabbanī, Aḥmad al-Sirhindī (d. 1033 AH/1624 CE) 2 Ontological Themes  1 An Exposition on the Meanings of Nafs, Rūh, ʿAql, Qalb and What Is Intended by These Names. The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn) by Imam Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ghazālī (d. 505 AH/1111 CE)  2 The Nature of the ʿAql and Its Types. Tuḥfat al-Murīd ʿalā Jawahart al-Tawḥid by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Bājūrī (d. 1276/1860)  3 On Man’s Recognition of the Reality of His Soul and the Spiritual Disclosures of the Sufis regarding It. Knowledge of the Spiritually Learned (ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif) by Imam Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardī (d. 632 AH/1191 CE)  4 Inherent Faculties of Perception. Al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine) by Ibn Sīna (d. 428 AH/1037 CE)  5 An Elucidation of the Malleability of Character Traits through Spiritual Exercises. Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn by Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (d. 1111 AD)  6 Types of Insanity (Aqsām al-Junūn). Durar al-Ḥukkām Sharḥ Majallat al-Aḥkām by Imam Ali Haydar Efendi (d. 1380 AH/1960 CE) 3 Cognitive Themes  1 An Exposition of Shayṭān’s Influence over the Heart through Subtle Whisperings (Waswasa), the Significance of Waswasa, and the Means through Which It Takes Hold [of a Person]. Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn by Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (d. 1111 AD)  2 An Introduction to Dream Interpretation (Taʿbīr al-Manām). Taʿṭīr al-Anām fī Ta‌‌ʾbīr al-Manām (Dream Interpretation) by Imam ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī (d. 1143 AH/1730 CE) 4 Emotional Themes  1 Repelling Excess Sorrow. Al-Ṭibb al-Ruhānī (Psycho-Spiritual Medicine) by Imam ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597 AH/1184 CE)  2 The Station of Grief. Madārij al-Sālikīn Bayn Manāzil Iyyāka Naʿbud wa-Iyyāka Nastaʿīn (Stations of the Seekers) by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751 AH/1351 CE)  3 Worry and Sorrow. Al-Hamm wa-l-Ḥazan (Worry and Sorrow) by Imam Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281 AH/882 CE)  4 Between Fear and Hope. Mukhtaṣar Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn by Imam Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 505 AH/1111 CE)  5 An Exposition on the Essential Nature of Anger. Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (The Revival of Religious Sciences) by Imam Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 505 AH/1111 CE)  6 The Heart’s Delight. Mufarriḥ al-Nafs (The Heart’s Delight) by Ibn Qādi Baalbek (d. 650 AH/1256 CE) 5 Behavioral Themes  1 Character Traits: Definitions, Origins, Types, and How to Change Them. Al-Ṭarīqa al-Muḥammadiyya wa-l-Sīra al-Aḥmadiyya (The Muhammadan Path) by Imam Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Birgivī (d. 981 AH/1573 CE)  2 Chapter on Waswasa. Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ by Mulla ʿAlī al-Qarī (d. 1014 AH/1620 CE) 6 Themes on General Well-Being  1 Man’s Discovery of His Own Vices. Al-Ṭibb al-Ruhānī (Psycho-Spiritual Medicine) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyā al-Rāzī (d. 251 AH/925 CE)  2 The Means of Recognizing One’s Own Flaws. Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (The Revival of Religious Sciences) by Imam Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 505 AH/1111 CE)  3 The Need for the Management of the Psyche. Maṣālih al-Abdān wa-l-Anfus (Sustenance of the Body and the Psyche) by Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322 AH/934 CE)  4 Preservation of the Health of the Psyche. Maṣālih al-Abdān wa al-Anfus (Sustenance of the Body and the Psyche) by Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322 AH/934 CE)  5 When One Loses It: Methods of Restoring Mental Health. Maṣālih al-Abdān wa al-Anfus (Sustenance of the Body and the Psyche) by Imam Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322 AH/934 CE)  6 Explaining and Enumerating Psychological Symptoms. Maṣālih al-Abdān wa-l-Anfus (Sustenance of the Body and the Psyche) by Imam Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322 AH/934 CE) Bibliography Index