London: Luzac & Co., 1936. First separate edition. Xx, 443pp; indexes. Publisher's blue cloth; gilt spine; lacking a jacket. Wear and short tears to cloth at spine ends; foxing to endleaves; mild spotting to fore-edge. Very good; a sound and tidy copy.
English-language version of the "most ancient and celebrated Persian treatise on Sufism" (preface), as compiled in the 11th century by Persian scholar al-Hujwiri. Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson from the text of the Lahore Edition, compared with manuscripts in the India Office and British Museum. An abridged version of this translation was originally published in 1911 as Vol. XVII of the Gibb Memorial Series.
