It's not just academic! : essays on Sufism and Islamic studies /
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| Author / Creator: | Ernst, Carl W., 1950- author. |
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| Imprint: | New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, [2017] |
| Description: | xix, 490 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11666973 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. General and Critical Issues in Islamic Studies
- 1. Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism
- 2. Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur'an as Literature in an American Public University
- 3. "The West and Islam?" Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism
- 4. Muhammad as the Pole of Existence
- 5. It's Not Just Academic: Writing Public Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- 6. The Global Significance of the Arabic Language
- Part 2. Early Sufism
- 7. Esoteric and Mystical Aspects of Religious Knowledge in Sufism
- 8. Controversies over Ibn 'Arabi's Fusus: The Faith of Pharaoh
- 9. Mystical Language and the Teaching Context in the Early Lexicons of Sufism
- 10. The Man without Attributes: Ibn 'Arabi's Interpretation of Abu Yazid al-Bistami
- 11. Ruzbihan Baqli on Love as "Essential Desire"
- 12. An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgrimage
- 13. The Stages of Love in Early Persian Sufism, from Rabi' a to Ruzbihan
- 14. Sufism and Philosophy in Mulla Sadra
- 15. Shams-i Tabriz and the Audacity of Bayazid Bistami
- Part 3. Sufism, Art, and Literature
- 16. The Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani's Adab al-mashq
- 17. The Symbolism of Birds and Flight in the Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli
- 18. On Losing One's Head: Hallajian Motifs and Authorial Identity in Poems Ascribed to 'Attar
- 19. Beauty and the Feminine Element of Spirituality
- 20. Sufism and the Aesthetics of Penmanship in Siraj al-Shirazi's Tuhfat al-Muhibbin (1454)
- 21. Jalal al-Din Davani's Interpretation of Hafiz
- 22. "A Little Indicates Much": Structure and Meaning in the Prefaces to Rumi's Masnavi, Books 1-3
- 23. Wakened by the Dove's Trill: Structure and Meaning in the Preface to Rumi's Masnavi, Book 4
- Part 4. Contemporary Sufism
- 24. Ideological and Technological Transformations of Contemporary Sufism
- 25. Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the Contemporary World: Methodological Reflections on a Changing Field of Study
- Part 5. Persianate Themes
- 26. Persianate Islamic Studies in American Universities
- 27. Concepts of Religion in the Dabistan
- 28. Early Orientalist Concepts of Sufism
- Index
- About the Author