Sayyid Nuhammad bin Mubarak bin Muhammad bin Mahmood Kirmani, a successor of Hazrat Khwaja Nizam-ud-din Awliya, wrote Siyar-ul-awliya that describes the Mashaikhs (spiritual guides) of the Chishtiyah silsila (chain). This volume presents a translation of this work in English. The book deals with successorship of the spiritual guides,, initiation of the successor, aspects regarding cleanliness and etiquette, dress, eating and other habits of the men of tasawwuf. It is concerned with the meditation, hidden recitation and love and other aspects that characterise the spiritual guides of this silsila. It studies the etiquettes of sama and describes the state that gets created during sama. It gives a description of some assemblies of sama.