A Luminous Intellect : Essays in Honor of Hamid Algar (Islamic History and Civilization)

A festschrift in honor of Hamid Algar, professor of Near Eastern Studies. It features insightful contributions on Shiʿism, Sufism, and Islamic literature, including Sufi poetry, Shʿi ḥadīth and exegesis, and early Arabic literature in the United States of America.