Sanctity and mysticism in medieval Egypt : the Wafāʼ Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn ʻArabī /
"Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and develop...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | SUNY series in Islam.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. Tirmidhi, Ibn 'Arabi, and Others on Sanctity
- Tirmidhi on Walaya
- Sahl Tustari on Walaya
- Lesser Treatments of Walaya
- Walaya and Shi'ism
- Ibn 'Arabi and Walaya
- 2. The Early Shadhiliyya and Sanctity
- Literature and History of the Shadhiliyya
- Al-Shadhili, Tirmidhi, and Ibn 'Arabi
- The Early Figures of the Order
- The Writings of Ibn Bakhila
- Proximity to the Divine
- The Levels of Walaya
- Sanctity and Prophecy.
- 3. The Wafa'iyya in Time and Space
- Arriving from the Maghreb
- Among the Elite of Cairo
- 4. The Writings of the Wafa's
- Poetry
- Supplications (du'a)
- Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Exegesis (tafsir)
- Mystical Treatises (Mu ammad Wafa')
- Mystical Treatises ('Ali Wafa')
- 5. Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa'
- Absolute Being and Its Self-disclosure
- The Preexistential and the Everlasting
- Spiritual Anthropology
- Cosmology
- The Teaching Shaykh and Beyond
- The Muhammadan Reality and the Pole
- Sanctity, the Renewer, and the Seal
- 6. Sanctity according to 'Ali Wafa'
- Divine Oneness, Self-disclosure, and Creation
- The Teacher and Oneness
- On Walaya and Nubuwwa
- The Seal of Sainthood
- The Seal and the Renewer of Religion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Introduction
- 1. Tirmidhi, Ibn 'Arabi, and Others on Sanctity
- 2. The Early Shadhiliyya and Sanctity
- 3. The Wafa'iyya in Time and Space
- 4. The Writings of the Wafa's
- 5. Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa'
- 6. Sanctity according to 'Ali Wafa'
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index to the Qur'an
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
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- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
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