Sufi poetry

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Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world.

Some of the most famous works, both poetry and prose, in Sufi literature are:

The Mathnawī and Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i of Rūmī
al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat-ul-Burda
Shaikh Abū Sa`īd Abū-l-Khair's Asrār-ut-Tawḥīd ("The Secrets of Unity")
Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds
Ibn Arabi's Fuṣūṣ-ul-Ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom")
Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa'ādat ("The Alchemy of Happiness")
Gohar Shahi's Turyaaq-e-Qulb ("Cure for Heart")

[edit] Bibliography

Khan, Inayat: "The Hand of Poetry" Omega Publications.
Schimmel, Annemarie: "As Through A Veil, Mystical Poetry in Islam".
Wilson, Peter Lamborn and Nasrollah Pourjavady: "The Drunken Universe - An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry" Omega Publications.
Dunn, Philip: " The Love Poems of Rumi" Andrews McMeel Publishing.