This volume contains an edition and translation of the extant epistles of Ab363 l-Q257sim b. Mu7717ammad al-Junayd. Al-Junayd was an influential holy man and spiritual thinker who lived in Baghdad in the ninth century. His writings are marked with many of the features of the tradition that later became known as Ta7779awwuf, Islamic Mysticism. Later Sufis acknowledged him as shaykh al-mash257yikh, the Sheikh among Sheikhs, and as t257w363s al-fuqar257702, the Peacock among the Men of Poverty.brAl-Junayd's epistles, addressed to private individuals, are often based upon interpretations of key passages from the Qur702257n. He argues forcefully that the mystic lives again in union with God after the mystic has passed away fan257702. He was one of the first writers in Arabic who tried to express the ineffable and give such expressions the linguistic and intellectual substance of the Islamic theology he had so little fondness for. According to him, the theologians were masters of the quibble