Titus Burckhardt’s masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.

In this collection of essays the author shows how the symbolist perspective cultivated by the Sufis offers insights not only into Islamic art, but also such topics as Russian icons…

The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked…