These pages provide another reading that could elucidate some of the Book of Good Love's most insoluble enigmas by comparing its primordial aspects with others inherent to the literature produced by Islamic mysticism.

The fundamental point of this proposal is the double similarity - in theme and techniques - between the text of the Archpriest of Hita and Sufi literature. On the one hand, we have a common theme that is an attempt and a failure, outlined in the repeated amorous adventures and misadventures, both of the Archpriest and of the one who embarks on the so-called Creed of Love (evolutionary Sufism); and on the other hand, the narrative techniques of the author of The Book bear a strong resemblance to that of the Sufi texts. From this reading, The Book would have a highly metaphorical meaning and a didactic objective, although it is an indirect and unconventional didacticism.

First of all, this book gives a brief overview of the main figures of Sufism (Al-Ghazzali or Algazel, Fariduddin Attar, Najmuddin Kubra, Hakim Sanai, Saadi of Shiraz, Hakim Jami, Hallaj, Suhrawardi, Junaid, Abu Nasr al Farabi, Omar Khayyam and the celebrated Jalaluddin Rumi) as well as the historian Ibn Kald