This book covers a variety of subjects surrounding the antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas: from gender and the role of women in Islamic mysticism to genuine versus sham piety. This book deals with non-conformist aspects of Sufism, and other antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas. The chapters cover a variety of subjects, ranging from gender and the role of women in Islamic mysticism, to genuine versus sham piety, belief versus unbelief, the notion of metempsychosis (tanāsukh) in the mystical philosophy of Shihāb al-Dīn Suhravardī, and the influential role of the Persian sage ʿUmar Khayyām in religious discussions on piety in Persia, and his reception history in Europe. This book deals with non-conformist aspects of Sufism, and other antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas. The chapters cover a variety of subjects, ranging from gender and the role of women in Islamic mysticism, to genuine versus sham piety, belief versus unbelief, the notion of metempsychosis (tanāsukh) in the mystical philosophy of Shihāb al-Dīn Suhravardī, and the influential role of the Persian sage ʿUmar Khayyām in religious discussions on piety in Persia, and his reception history in Europe. Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Whores and Heavenly Beings: Women and Sufism in the Persianate World of the 12th-13th Centuries - Lloyd Ridgeon; Jamāl al-Dīn Sāvī’s Codification of Qalandarī Rites and Rituals - Zhinia Noorian; Moderate Level-Headed Antinomianism of Ḥāfiẓ and its Artistic Expression - Majdoddin Keyvani; ʿUmar Khayyām’s Transgressive Ethics and their Socio-Political Implications in Contemporary Iran - Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab; A Polemic on Knowledge: An Analysis of Two Persian Quatrains - Arash Ghajarjazi; Omar Khayyām in German Reformulations: Translation between Politics, Scholarship and Belief - Amir Theilhaber; The Boy Sheikh: The Trial of an Ottoman Heretic - Colin Imber; Islam’s Margins: Ahl-i Haqq, Angels and Peacocks, and the Marginal Scholars who Loved Them - Martin van Bruinessen; A Persian Essay in Defence of Suhrawardī Against the Accusation of Supporting Metempsychosis (tanāsukh)” - Cornelis van Lit; Index