Letters of a Sufi scholar : the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) /

For the first time, this book presents the original Arabic texts of a ~Abd al-GhanA al-NAbulusAa (TM)s letters, along with selected translations and fresh insights into the culture of correspondence, postal history, and main theological debates in the early modern period of Islam.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Akkach, Samer (Autor), Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2010]
Colección:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 74.
Temas:
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, > 1641-1731 > Correspondence.
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, > 1641-1731
Sufis > Syria > Damascus > Correspondence.
Muslim scholars > Syria > Damascus > Correspondence.
Soufis > Syrie > Damas > Correspondance.
Savants musulmans > Syrie > Damas > Correspondance.
RELIGION > Islam > Sufi.
Muslim scholars.
Sufis.
Syria > Damascus.
Personal correspondence.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence
  • The intellectual milieu
  • The letters of the Wasā'il
  • List and description
  • Places, towns, and correspondents
  • Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces
  • Content and significance
  • On understanding Islam: letter 1
  • On struggle (jihād): letter 3
  • On causality: letter 4
  • On solitude: letters 6 and 10
  • On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14
  • On smoking: letter 25
  • On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62
  • On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters.

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