Oriental Mysticism

Oriental Mysticism is Professor Palmer’s systematization of these Sufic materials has been regarded as essential reading in its subject for many yea Part I ‘Of the Traveler, the Goal, the States, and the Road’ Part II ‘Concerning the Nature of God’ Part III ‘The Saintly and Prophetic Offices Defined’ Part IV ‘On the Influence of Early Prejudice upon Belief’ Part V ‘The Study of Man’ and ‘Glossary of Technical and Allegorical Terms in use among the Sufi Poets’. Edward Henry Palmer was an English Orientalist of quite considerable repute. During his residence at St John’s College at Cambridge he catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts in the university library, and in the libraries of Kings and Trinity. In 1867 he published a treatise on Oriental mysticism, based on the Maksad-i-Aksa of Aziz ibn Mohammad Nafasi. He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake. They completed this journey on foot and without escort, making friends among the Bedouin, to whom Palmer was known as Abdallah Effendi.