Islamic Mysticism Contested
Author : I.J.F. de Jong
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789004452725
Author : I.J.F. de Jong
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789004452725
Author : F. de Jong
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004113008
This collection of papers provides a comprehensive survey of controversies and polemics concerning Islamic mysticism from the formative period of Islam till the present. It adds substantially to our knowledge of the history of Islamic mysticism, and of present-day anti-Sufi fundamentalist orientations.
Author : Farid al-Din Attar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415442567
This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar's work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.
Author : John O'Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136793097
This book provides translations of the earliest Arabic autobiography and the earliest theoretical explanation of the psychic development and powers of an Islamic holy man (Saint, Friend of God).
Author : Francesco Piraino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 178738344X
Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago and Sweden. The contributors look at the global spread and stance of such major actors as the Ba 'Alawiyya, the 'Afropolitan' Tijaniyya, and the Gülen Movement. They map global Sufi culture, from Rumi to rap, and ask how global Sufism accommodates different and contradictory gender practices. They examine the contested and shifting relationship between the Islamic and the universal: is Sufism the timeless and universal essence of all religions, the key to tolerance and co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims? Or is it the purely Islamic heart of traditional and authentic practice and belief? Finally, the book turns to politics. States and political actors in the West and in the Muslim world are using the mantle and language of Sufism to promote their objectives, while Sufis are building alliances with them against common enemies. This raises the difficult question of whether Sufis are defending Islam against extremism, supporting despotism against democracy, or perhaps doing both.
Author : Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781528572804
Excerpt from Studies in Islamic Mysticism As was explained in the preface to my Studies in Islamic Poetry, the following essays conclude a series of five, which fall into two groups and are therefore published in separate volumes. While mysticism, save for a few casual references, found no place in the studieson the Luba'ba 'l-a lba'b of 'awfi and the Luzzimz'yya't of Abu 'l-'ala al-ma'arri, in these now brought together it has taken entire possession of the field. Ibnu 'l - F arid, indeed, is an exquisite poet; and the picture of Abu Sa'id ibn Abi 'l-khayr, drawn by pious faith and coloured with legendary romance, may be looked upon as a work of art in its way. But on the whole the literary interest of the present volume is subordinate to the religious and philosophical. I have tried to make the reader acquainted with three Sufis famous in the East and worthy of being known in Europe. Most of what has hitherto been Written concerning Abu Sa'id begins and ends with the quatrains passing as his, though (for the chief part, at any rate) they were neither composed nor recited by him. As to Jili, the masterly sketch in Dr Muhammad Iqbal's Development of Metaphysics in Persia stands almost alone. Ibnu 'l-farid had the misfortune to be translated by Von Hammer, and the first intelligent or intelligible version of his great Td'z'yya appeared in Italy four years ago. It will be 'seen that the subjects chosen illustrate, different aspects of Si'ifism and exhibit racial contrasts, of which perhaps the importance has not yet been sufficiently recognised. Ab1'1 Sa'id, the free-thinking free-living dervish, is a Persian through and through, while Ibnu 'l-farid in the form of his poetry as well as in the individuality of his spiritual enthusiasm displays the narrower and tenser genius of the Semite. Nearly a third of this volume is concerned with a type of Sfifism, whichas represented by Ibnu 'l Arabi and Jfli - possesses great interest for students of medieval thought and may even claim a certain significance 1n relation to modern philosophical and theological problems. Mysticism is such a vital element in Islam that without some understanding of its ideas and of the forms which they assume we should seek in vain to penetrate below the surface of Mohammedan religious life. The forms may be fantastic and the ideas difficult to grasp; nevertheless we shall do well to follow them, for in their company East and West often meet and feel themselves akin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Claud Field
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2019-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780368640391
It is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in it. But however much later Islamic mysticism may have derived from Christian, Neo-platonic, and Buddhist sources, there is little doubt that the roots of mysticism are to be found in the Koran itself. The following verse is an instance: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp encased in glass--the glass as it were a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light!" (Koran Sura 24). Indeed it seems strange to accord the title of "a practical mystic" to Cromwell and to deny it to Mohammad, whose proclivity for religious meditation was so strong that the Arabs used to say "Muhammad is in love with his Maker,"[1] and whose sense of the "terror of the Lord" was so intense that it turned his hair prematurely white. Many of the reported sayings of the Early Companions of Muhammad show that they shared this terror. "Verily, you shall see hell, you shall see it with the eye of certainty" says the Koran, and they thought it very probable. Thus Ali exclaimed "Alas for the shortness of the provision and the terrors of the way!" Abu'l Darda said "If ye knew what ye shall see after death, ye would not eat nor drink, and I wish that I were a tree that is lopped and then devoured.
Author : Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1613106637
Author : Claud Field
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440092930
Excerpt from Mystics and Saints of Islam It is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam, and an altogether alien element in it. But however much later Islamic mysticism may have derived from Christian, Neo-platonic, and Buddhist sources, there is little doubt that the roots of mysticism are to be found in the Koran itself. The following verse is an instance: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp encased in glass - the glass as it were a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light!" (Koran Sura 24) Indeed it seems strange to accord the title of "a practical mystic" to Cromwell and to deny it to Mohammad, whose proclivity for religious meditation was so strong that the Arabs used to say "Muhammad is in love with his Maker, and whose sense of the terror of the Lord" was so intense that it turned his hair prematurely white. Many of the reported sayings of the Early Companions of Muhammad show that they shared this terror. "Verily, you shall see hell, you shall see it with the eye of certainty" says the Koran, and they thought it very probable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Staffan Andrae
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1987-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780887065248
Here are the early Sufis themselves. Here are their ascetic practices; their attitudes toward women and marriage, toward food and drink, and toward music and poetry; and here is their ecstatic experience. This is a study in holiness and the love of God, but it is even more a study of men and women overcome by that holiness and love, and locked in the paradox of loving a God who makes vast demands on them. The early Sufis were not seeking consolation. Who they were and what they were after, the reader will discover here. Topics discussed include the historical background of early Muslim mysticism and the relations between Muslim and Christian ascetics. Andrae suggests parallels drawn from his vast reading in the literature of religious experience, both East and West.