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1. The Saint-Poets of Maharashtra
Jayadev
Namdev (1270?-1350?)
Surdas (1483-1563)
Tukaram (1608?-1650)
Jnaneshwar
2. Vaishnavite Mystics
Mirabai. Her poems or padas are widely loved in much of northern India and express an intense love and yearning for her beloved deity, Lord Krishna.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
3. Shaivite Mystics
Lalleswari (1320-1391), a.k.a. Lalla or Lal Ded.
4. Bengal Shaktas
Ramprasad
5. Others
Narsi Mehta
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitañjali, etc.
Eknath (1533-1599)
Bhartrihari (5th century)
Bilhana (11th century)
Adi Shankaracharya
1. Sufi Mystics
Al Khalil b. Ahmad
Al Ghazzali (1058-1111)
Ansari of Herat
Farid al-Din Attar (1145?-1221?)
Firdausi Hafiz (a.k.a. Shemsuddin Mahommad) (14th century)
Hakim Sana'i (1118-1152): The Walled Garden of Truth, etc.
Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240)
Mevlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (1207-1273): The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne, for instance.
Omar Khayyam: The Rubayat, etc.
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya (717-801)
Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa'di Shirazi (13th century)
Hallaj (857-922)
Abou Al-Hassan Kharaqani (960-1033)
Hazrat Inyat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound (?)
2. Mystics and Saint-Poets Worshipped by both Hindus and Muslims
Guru Nanak (16th century)
Kabir (15th century): The Bijak, etc.
Shirdi Sai Baba (19th century)
1. Early Fathers
St Antoine du Désert
Jean Cassian
2. Middle Ages to 19th century
St Francois of Assisi
St Beatrice of Nazareth
Dante Alighieri
Julian of Norwich
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Hildegard of Bingen
Mesiter Eckardt (1260-1327). Germany.
St Catherine of Sienna
St John of the Cross (1542-1591). Spain.
St Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). Spain.
St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897). France.
John Wesley. England.
3. Contemporaries
It has often been said that the 20th century was, poetically speaking, a "mystical" century...
Christian Bobin
Max Jacob
Abbé Bremond: Poésie Pure (1926), Prière et Poésie (1926)
Francis Jammes
Marie Noël: Le Rosaire des Joies (1930)
Paul Claudel: Les Grandes Odes
Mother Teresa (1910-1997). Yugoslavia-India.
René Char (1907-1988). France.
Octavio Paz
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960). Uruguay-France.
Saint-John Perse
Henri Michaux
Gerald Manley Hopkins (20th century)
Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies , etc.
Theodore Roethke
Thomas Traherne: Centuries, etc.
William Blake
William Butler Yeats
1. Kabbalah
Moses Maimonides
2. Hassidism
Baal Shem Tov
3. Others
1. Zen Mystics
Dogen (1200-1253). Japan.
Nichiren (1222-1282). Japan.
Ryokan
Thich Nath Hanh
[See also the Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compilation by Paul Reps]
2. Tibetan Buddhism
Milarepa (-) Tibet.
Marpa
Tilopa
Shantideva (8th century): Bodhicaryavatara
Mahavir
Jogindu
Guru Nanak
Guru Arjan Dev (1563-1605): Sukhmani
Lao-Tseu
Lieh-Tseu
Confucius (551- ? B.C.E.) China.
Mencius (4th century B.C.E.) China.
Zoroaster
[To be added later]
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931). Lebanon-USA.
Gurdjieff
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