ISBN:
9780415302838
,
0415302838
,
0415303079
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 364 pages
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Routledge Sufi series
DDC:
297.4
Keywords:
Mysticism Islam
;
Ḥakīm at-Tirmiḏī, Muḥammad Ibn ʿAlī al- 210-300
;
Sufismus
Abstract:
Introduction: Sweetness and Inner Struggle -- Part I Asceticism and Mysticism (zuhd and taṣawwuf) -- 1. ‘Sufism’: Reconsidering terms, definitions and processes. -- 2. Zuhd in Islamic Mysticism: Conduct and Attitude. -- 3. "Wa-rahbāniyyatan ibtadaʿūhā": Monasticism and Asceticism False and Sincere. -- Part II Schools and Teachers -- 4. Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and the Malāmatīs of Nīshāpūr. -- 5. Teachers and Disciples in Baghdad and Nīshāpūr. -- 6. Facing Hostility in Transoxiana: Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl. -- Appendix: The Letters Letters of Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Tirmidhī to Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl -- Part III Polarity -- 7. "Between Fear and Hope": Coincidence of Opposites in Islamic Mysticism -- 8. The Self (nafs) and Her Transformation. -- 9. Faces of al-Ḥaqq: The Name and the Named. -- Part IV The Spiritual Hierarchy -- 10. Wilāya: Contemplating Friendship with God. -- 11. Myrtle and Holy Men: Echoes of Ancient Traditions in a Woman’s Dream. -- Part V Language and Hermeneutics -- 12. The Power of Words: Mystical Linguistics in al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. -- 13. "The Countless Faces of Understanding": Istinbāṭ, Listening and Exegesis. -- Bibliography
