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Bayazid: The Life And Teachings Of The Mystic Abu Yazid Al-Bastami (D. Ca. 234/848) - Based On The Earliest Sources

by Annabel Keeler

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 Abu Yazid al-Bastami (d. ca 234/848), popularly known as "Bayazid", remains one of the most celebrated yet controversial figures in the history of Islamic mysticism. This in-depth study of his life and teachings is based on the earliest available sources. The book sets out in detail what is known of Bayazid's family, his education, his disciples and associates. It explores the distinctive rhetoric that has made some of his sayings so memorable, and shows how his mode of expression adds a sense of urgency, often drama, to quite conventional doctrines of Sufism. Through the varied corpus of his sayings, this study traces Bayazid's teachings concerning many aspects of the mystical path, as well as his reflections on God, the Prophet, heaven and hell. Having considered his role as spiritual master, his favourable view of women and his place in the wider community, the study then turns to the controversial side of Bayazid: his apparently blasphemous utterances, and his so-called mi?raj. The book goes on to explore how the two seemingly contradictory sides to Bayazid might be reconciled, and finally, provides a brief survey of the extent of his influence on later Sufism and its literature.
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Foundations Of Sufism - An Annotated Translation Of Qawa?Id Al-Tasawwuf By Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq Al-Fasi (D. 899/1493)

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 Ahmad Zarruq, a 15th-century North African Sufi, turned his considerable intellect towards integrating theology, Islamic law and the spiritual path. His model of a jurisprudentially-grounded Sufism is as relevant today as when he presented it to a mediaeval audience, using an aphoristic style tailored to his educated readership. The current growth of puritanical movements in the Islamic world makes Zarruq's The Foundations of Sufism a must-read for scholars, educators and those seeking to reconcile various interpretations of the faith. The author of this fresh translation, an Arabic and Classical Sufism scholar, consulted newly-discovered manuscripts in preparing his critical edition of this seminal work.
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Sufis And Their Lodges In The Ottoman Hijaz - Hasan B. ?Ali Al-?Ujaymi'S (D. 1113/1702) Khabaya Al-Zawaya &Quote;Secrets Of The Lodges&Quote; & Risala Fi Turuq Al-Sufiyya &Quote;Treatise On Sufi O

by Naser Dumairieh

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 The distinguished position of the seventeenth-century Hijaz attracted Sufis from across the Islamic world, making it the largest Sufi center of that era, with more than forty Sufi orders active during the Ottoman period. Most of the region's many scholars were associated with Sufism and affiliated to these orders; their lives and Sufi activities more broadly were documented by one of their number, al-?Ujaymi, in two texts. These texts, critically edited here for the first time, constitute some of the best evidence for the character of spiritual life in the Hijaz during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
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?Umar Al-Suhrawardi - Studies, Editions, Translations

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 Abu Hafs ?Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145-1234) is the author of a classic work of Muslim piety, a key figure in the rise of institutional Sufism in the form of "orders" called "tariqas," and the influential eponym of one of these famous orders. This book presents studies, editions, and English translations of his shorter treatises that were originally penned in Arabic and Persian. Relying on global archival research, the book discovers materials that shed new light on his teachings and networks, as it traces the context, sources, and reception of his works. Carefully identifying the authentic works of ?Umar al-Suhrawardi, the book presents significant new information on a key moment in the history of Muslim piety and mysticism.
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Sainthood And Authority In Early Islam: Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi'S Theory Of Wilaya And The Reenvisioning Of The Sunni Caliphate

by Aiyub Palmer

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 In Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam Aiyub Palmer recasts wilaya in terms of Islamic authority and traces its development in both political and religious spheres up through the 3rd and 4th Islamic centuries. This book pivots around the ideas of al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, the first Muslim theologian and mystic to write on the topic of wilaya. By looking at its structural roots in Arab and Islamic social organization, Aiyub Palmer has reframed the discussion about sainthood in early Islam to show how it relates more broadly to other forms of authority in Islam. This book not only looks anew at the influential ideas of al-Tirmidhi but also challenges current modes of thought around the nature of authority in Islamicate societies.
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Thus Spake The Dervish - Sufism, Language, And The Religious Margins In Central Asia, 1400-1900

by Alexandre Papas

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 Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author's fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.
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Generations Des Soufis - Tabaqat Al-Sufiyya De Abu ?Abd Al-Rahman, Muhammad B. Husayn Al-Sulami (325/937-412/1021)

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 In his book Generations of Sufis, Abu ?Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (died 1021), the Sufi master of Nishapur and Shafi?i traditionist and historian, collected the teachings of 105 Sufi masters who lived between the 2nd/8th and the 4th/10th centuries. Sulami gives a short biography of each master with representative quotations from his teachings. He thereby illustrates the numerous approaches to the spiritual path and the unity of its principles. One of the oldest works of the sort, it assembles the doctrinal foundations from which medieval Sufism developed. It is a key reference which influenced all Sufi literature and even historiography. This is the first translation of a work of this type to be published in a European language. Dans Les generations des Soufis Abu ?Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (m. 1021), maitre soufi de Nishapur, traditionniste safi?ite et historien, collecte l'enseignement de cent cinq maitres soufis qui vecurent entre le 2e/8e et le 4e/10e siecles. Pour chacun d'eux, Sulami propose une courte notice biographique et un ensemble de citations representatives de son enseignement. Il rend ainsi compte de la diversite des approches de la voie spirituelle et de l'unite de ses principes. Cet ouvrage, l'un des plus anciens de ce type, rassemble le socle doctrinal sur lequel s'elabora le soufisme medieval. Reference incontournable, il eut une influence considerable sur toute la litterature du soufisme et meme l'historiographie. Cette traduction est la premiere en langue europeenne d'un ouvrage de ce type.
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Sufism East And West - Mystical Islam And Cross-Cultural Exchange In The Modern World

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 In Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interchange and fluidity in the resonance spaces of "East" and "West." The volume challenges the enduring Orientalist binary coding of East-versus-West and argues instead for a more mutual process of cultural plaiting and shared tradition. By highlighting amendments, adaptations and expansions of Sufi semantics during the last centuries, it also questions the persistent perception of Sufism in its post-classical epoch as a corrupt imitation of the legacy of the great Sufis of the past.
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Ibrahim-I Gulshani And The Khalwati-Gulshani Order - Power Brokers In Ottoman Egypt

by Side Emre

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 In Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt, Side Emre documents the biography of Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes (c. 1440-1600). Set mainly in Mamluk-Egypt, and in the century following the region's conquest by the Ottomans, this book analyzes sociopolitical dialogues at the geographic peripheries of an empire through the actions of and official responses to the Gulshaniyya network.Emre argues that the members of this Sufi order exerted social and political leverage and contributed significantly to the political culture of the empire and Egypt. The Gulshanis are uncovered as unexpected figures among the roster of influential players, in contrast with empire-centered historiographies that depict Ottoman ruling and learned elites as the primary shapers and narrators of the fates of conquered provinces and peoples. The Gulshanis' political and cultural legacy is situated within an analysis of perceptions of Sufism in the early modern Ottoman world.

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