Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour

How did medieval Sufis express their system of everyday morality? Sufism attracts much attention in the West, yet its ethical dimension is often overlooked. Jawanmardi—a key element of Persian Sufism—was the ethic that encouraged the Sufi to put others before himself and to overlook the sins committed by others, representing a humane and liberal understanding of Islam.

Many writers in the Persian tradition wrote about jawanmardi and this book presents three of the key medieval texts in trans...