Arberry, A.J.: The Koran Interpreted, London1964, Ch. LXXXIX. Vs. 27-28. All subsequent quotations from the Quran will be from the Arberry translation.
2.
Rushtahan, Abhar 'I-ashiqin. Edited by D. Nurbakhsh.Tehran. 1970. P. 123.
3.
Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Mathnawi. Translated from the Persian by R. A. Nicholson. London, 1926. Vol. IV, p. 381.
4.
Ibid, Vol. IV. P. 87.
5.
Ibid,Vol. IV. P. 344.
6.
These verses are found in many editions of The Mathnawi but not in that published by Nicholson. See for examples the Tehran edition published by Ilmi, n.d., p. 440.
7.
Shah Ni'matollahWali, Rasa 'il. Vol. 4. Edited by D. Nourbakhsh. Tehran. 1964. P. 87.
8.
Rumi,The Mathnawi. Vol. VI. P. 30.
9.
Ibid, Vol. II. P. 107.
10.
Racker, H.: Transference and Countertransference. London. 1066. P. 13.
11.
Freud, S.: Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. Translated by Joan Riviere. London. 1961. P. 367.
12.
Sajjadi, I.: Farhang-i Mustalahat-i `Urafa. Tehran. 1960. P. 29.
13.
The 'sun' referred to here, besides being the name of Rumi's master, is the sun of the spiritual world, the source and principle of all that exists.
14.
Rumi, Ghazaliyat-i Shahs-i Babrizi. Edited by M. Mashfiq.Tehran. 1956. P. 509.
15.
Hafiz, The Diwan. Qudsi edition. Tehran, n.d. P. 61.
16.
In Hafiz's poetry, as in all Sufi poetry, the wine-merchant is the symbol of the Sufi master.
17.
Freud, S.: Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis. P. 374.
18.
Shaykh Bohai, Basakul. Qom, n.d. P. 493.
19.
Rumi, The Mathnawi. Vol. IV. P. 366.
20.
cf. Perry, W.H.: 'The Revolt against Moses' Tomorrow. London. Vol. 14, spring 1966 . Pp. 103-119.
21.
Rumi, The Mathnawi. Vol. II. P. 16.
22.
`Abdal', which means literally 'substitutes', in Sufi terminology denotes the great saints upon whom the world depends for its subsistence.
23.
Ibid, Vol. IV. P. 366.
24.
See D. Nurbakhsh, The Life and Works of Shah Ni'matullah Wali. Tehran . 1959.
