Islamic mysticism : a short history /

Islamic mysticism : a short history /

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Author / Creator:Knysh, Alexander D.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Description:vii, 358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Themes in Islamic studies, 1389-823X ; v. 1
Subject:
Sufism -- History.
Mysticism -- Islam -- History.
Mysticism -- Islam.
Sufism.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4100576
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ISBN:9004107177 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-333) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I.. The Beginnings
  • The Name
  • Assumptions and Goals
  • The Archetypal Sufi: Al-Hasan al-Basri
  • The Accumulation of Ascetic and Mystical Lore
  • 'Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd
  • Variety of Devotional Styles: Ibrahim Ibn Adham, Ibn al-Mubarak and Fudayl Ibn 'Iyad
  • The Love Mysticism of Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya
  • The Formation of Mystical Language and Speculation: Shaqiq al-Balkhi
  • Chapter II.. Asceticism and Mysticism in Western Provinces: Syria and Egypt
  • Abu Sulayman al-Darani and His Circle
  • Dhu 'l-Nun al-Misri
  • Chapter III.. The Sufism of the Baghdad School
  • The Rise of Mystical Psychology: al-Muhasibi
  • The Formation of the Baghdadi Tradition
  • A Mysticism of Sobriety: al-Junayd al-Baghdadi
  • The Tongue of Sufi Science: Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz
  • The Blossom of Erotic Mysticism
  • Chapter IV.. The "Intoxicated" Mysticism of al-Bistami and al-Hallaj
  • Chapter V.. Ascetic and Mystical Movements in Basra and Khurasan
  • Ibn Karram and the Karramiyya
  • The Path of Blame
  • Why Sufism? Some Observations Regarding Sufism's Ascendancy During Islam's Golden Age
  • Chapter VI.. The Systematization of the Sufi Tradition
  • Abu Nasr al-Sarraj and His "Kitab al-Luma'"
  • Abu Talib al-Makki
  • Sufism on the Eastern Fringe
  • The Systematization of Khurasani Tradition: al-Sulami
  • Abu Nu'aym's "Decoration of the Saints"
  • Al-Qushayri's Sufi Manual
  • Sufism Speaks Persian: al-Hujwiri's Kashf al-mahjub
  • Sufism With a Hanbali Flavor: al-Ansari al-Harawi
  • The Maturity of Sufi Science: al-Ghazali
  • Chapter VII.. Sufism As Literature and Metaphysics: The Grand Masters of Mystical Poetry and Philosophy
  • 'Attar
  • Rumi
  • Jami
  • Sufism As Unitive Metaphysics: Ibn [al-]'Arabi
  • Chapter VIII.. Unity and Diversity in Sufism The Rise of the Tariqas
  • The Grand Masters of Tariqa Sufism
  • 'Abd al-Qadir and the Qadiriyya
  • Al-Suhrawardi and the Suhrawardiyya
  • Al-Shadhili and the Beginnings of the Shadhiliyya
  • Baha' al-Din Naqshband and the Naqshbandiyya
  • Najm al-Din Kubra and the Kubrawiyya
  • Sufism in a Shi'i Context: The Ni'matullahiyya
  • Chapter IX.. Sufi Institutions in Regional Contexts Over the Last Six Centuries
  • Sufism and Sufi Brotherhoods in the Maghrib
  • Sufism in sub-Saharan Africa
  • A Turkish Face of Sufism: The Khalwatiyya and Other Turkic Orders
  • Sufi Institutions in Moghul India
  • Sufism in Indonesia
  • Sufism in the Caucasus
  • Shamil and "Muridism": Methodological Problems
  • Chapter X.. Major Sufi Concepts and Institutions
  • The Path: Tariq(a)
  • The "States" and "Stations" of the Mystical Path
  • The Goal of the Mystical Path: fana'/baqa'
  • Sufi Epistemology: Kashf
  • Methods of Inducing Mystical States: khalwa, dhikr, and sama'
  • General Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Book Titles
  • Index of Terms

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