The paradigmatic experience of two ‘ecstatics’, Nerc and Shiblc

Many of the Sufi personalities discussed in the previous chapters are known only in a very shadowy or insubstantial way. They may be mentioned only occasionally in the source texts, often fleetingly, and sometimes anonymously. They disappear quickly back into the pages from which they momentarily arise, in which the faint memory of an episode from their lives is preserved.