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Brill Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi
Book SynopsisSufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries brings together ten original studies on historical aspects of Sufism in this region. A central question, of ongoing significance, underlies each contribution: what is the relationship between Sufism as it was manifested in this region prior to the Russian conquest and the Soviet era, on the one hand, and the features of Islamic religious life in the region during the Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras on the other? The authors address multiple aspects of Central Asian religious life rooted in Sufism, examining interpretative strategies, realignments in Sufi communities and sources from the Russian to the post-Soviet period, and social, political and economic perspectives on Sufi communities. Contributors include: Shahzad Bashir, Devin DeWeese, Allen Frank, Jo-Ann Gross, Kawahara Yayoi, Robert McChesney, Ashirbek Muminov, Maria Subtelny, Eren Tasar, and Waleed Ziad.Trade Review"The volume is systematic and cross-referential, and therefore fully deserves its place in Brill’s ‘Handbook of Oriental Studies’ series. Each chapter offers extensive bibliographies that also include the newest titles on regions not directly covered here, as for instance Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang). The volume’s methodological agenda – prioritizing source studies across conventional borders for accentuating the importance of Sufi sources for social history – easily links up with studies on Sufism elsewhere in the world." - Michael Kemper, University of Amsterdam, in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 30/2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures and Maps Contributors Note on Transcription and Style Maps Introduction Devin DeWeese and Jo-Ann Gross 1 Re-Envisioning the History of Sufi Communities in Central Asia: Continuity and Adaptation in Sources and Social Frameworks, 16th–20th Centuries Devin DeWeese 2 Naqshband’s Lives: Sufi Hagiography between Manuscripts and Genre Devin DeWeese 3 The Works of Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī as a Source for the Study of Sufism in Late 15th- and Early 16th-Century Central Asia Maria E. Subtelny 4 Ḥażrat Jīo Ṣāḥib: How Durrānī Peshawar Helped Revive Bukhara’s Sanctity Waleed Ziad 5 Valī Khān Tūra: A Makhdūmzāda Leader in Marghīnān during the Collapse of the Khanate of Khoqand Kawahara Yayoi 6 Reliquary Sufism: Sacred Fiber in Afghanistan R. D. McChesney 7 Sufism in the Face of Twentieth-Century Reformist Critiques: Three Responses from Sufi Imāms in the Volga-Ural Region Allen J. Frank 8 Sufism on the Soviet Stage: Holy People and Places in Central Asia’s Socio-Political Landscape after World War II Eren Tasar 9 Sufi Groups in Contemporary Kazakhstan: Competition and Connections with Kazakh Islamic Society Ashirbek Muminov 10 The Biographical Tradition of Muḥammad Bashārā: Sanctification and Legitimation in Tajikistan Jo-Ann Gross Index 333
£104.88
Brill Ranks of the Divine Seekers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qurʾanic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fanāʾ) and subsist (baqāʾ) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Translation Notes Translator’s Introduction 1 Madārij and Its Author 2 The Formation of Sufism 3 Sufism and Antinomianism 4 Sufism and Mysticism 5 Defining Sufism 6 Al-Harawī and Manāzil 7 Madārij’s Reverential Critique of Manāzil 8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fanāʾ) 9 Causality and Ethics 10 The Problem of Epistemology 11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path 12 Conclusion Selected Bibliography Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madārij al-Sālikīn: Text and Translation Prolegomenon 1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qurʾan, The Opening 2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity 3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes 4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance 5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies 6 Refutation of Heresies 7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help” 1 The Stations of the Journey 1 The Station of Awakening 2 The Station of Insight 3 The Station of Purpose 4 The Station of Resolve 5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations 2 The Station of Reflection 1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation 2 Three Types of Annihilation 3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation 4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation 5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism 6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous 3 The Station of Self-Reckoning 1 The First Pillar 2 The Second Pillar 3 The Third Pillar 4 The Station of Repentance 1 Repentance and The Opening 2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance 3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins 4 The Inner Realities of Repentance 5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance 8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality 9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners 10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance 11 The Full Meaning of Repentance 12 Sins: The Object of Repentance 13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qurʾan 14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and Repentance Index
£56.00
Brill Visualizing Sufism: Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century)
Book SynopsisVisualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticism—Ibn al-ʿArabī, Aḥmad al-Būnī, Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh, al-Shaʿrānī—, and in intellectual networks—Ḥurūfiyya and Bektashiyya, Shīrīn Maghribī and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history. Contributors Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Plates Notes on Contributors Introduction Giovanni Maria Martini 1 Diagrams and Visionary Experience in al-Būnī’s (d. 622/1225) Laṭāʾif al-ishārāt fī al-ḥurūf al-ʿulwīyat Noah Gardiner 2 Illustrating the Forms: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Images in al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya Ali Karjoo-Ravary 3 Visualizing the Architecture of the Universe: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) Diagrams in Chapter 371 of the Meccan Openings Sophie Tyser 4 Reading and Reciting the Qurʾan: Calligraphic Spaces in Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh’s (d. 649/1252) Kitāb al-Maḥbūb Elizabeth Alexandrin 5 Use of Diagrams in the Ḥurūfī and Nuqṭavī Manuscripts, and Possible Links between the Ḥurūfī ‘Verbal’ and the Bektashi Visual Iconographies Orkhan Mir-Kasimov 6 Shīrīn Maghribī’s (d. 810/1407) Visual Sufism: Diagrams, Intellectual Networks, and the Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge in 14th Century Tabriz and beyond Giovanni Maria Martini 7 “Sensible Images”: Pictograms in the Manuscript Transmission of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī’s (d. 973/1565) al-Mīzān al-kubrā Evyn Kropf Index
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Brill The Mongols Middle East
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£47.20
East-West Publications Complete Works of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat
Book SynopsisAll known talks compiled from original sources.
£34.84
Kosmos - Z & K Uitgevers Vision of God & Man
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a set of addresses on varying subjects by the founder of the Sufi Movement, given at different times during his stay in the West and covering a wide field of his teaching. The second part of the book consists of Inayat Khan''s Confessions or reminiscences which he dictated around 1918, while in the third part the reader will find four short plays, written principally to be performed by his pupils in the course of their training.
£11.69
East-West Publications Complete Works of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat
Book SynopsisAll known talks compiled from original sources.
£24.79
East-West Publications Complete Works of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat
Book SynopsisCollected sayings from original sources with history.
£30.59
Leiden University Press The Rise of the Ni‘matull.h. Order: Shi'ite Sufi
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Leiden University Press Ayatollah Khomeini’s Mystical Poetry and its
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Oxford University Press,Pakistan 'We are Lovers of the Qalandar': Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam
Book SynopsisThis book is about Pakistan's most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. At the time of pilgrimage, this flourishing cult centre becomes a vibrant place of ecstatic religiosity marked by intense forms of devotion. The present ethnographic study is organized around three themes: piety, pilgrimage, and ritual. Thus, its focus is first on visual culture and 'material religion' as well as various aspects of religious aesthetics which highlight how sacred spaces are constructed and shaped. Secondly, it deals with the year-round pilgrimage, mainly investigating pilgrims from Punjab (including a unique life history of a female 'Sufi lineage' from Lahore), but also discussing remarkable ritual agents in the cult. The third theme is the spectacular trance dance known as dhamāl. On February 16, 2017, a suicide bomber executed a horrible massacre among the dancing devotees. This work, which is the fruit of the author's field-research between 2003 and 2015 in Sindh and Punjab, aims to contribute to a 'Sufism observed' which often seems to be neglected in mainly text-based Sufi studies. It is an academic companion to his earlier At the Shrine of the Red Sufi (OUP, 2011).Trade Review"We are Lovers of the Qalandar" is a vital addition to the scholarship of Pakistani Sufism and the anthropology of Islam. Frembgen's meticulous, granular ethnography is nuanced by his attention to broader historical, literary, and theoretical source materials...this book will serve as a useful resource for graduate and undergraduate courses in cultural anthropology, Islamic studies, Sufism, South Asia, and material culture and religion. It will also appeal to a broad readership searching for a more informed account of Islam and Sufism beyond the reductive, one-dimensional caricatures that too often (mis)inform journalistic and mass media reporting. * Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Journal of Sufi Studies *We are Lovers of the Qalandar is a profoundly rich contribution to the field of South Asian Sufism, Anthropology of Art, and Islam. It is a novel addition to the visual material theory of Sufi tradition in Islam. * M. Rafique Wassan, Anthropos *
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The American University in Cairo Press Jihad of the Pen: Sufi Scholars of Africa in
Book SynopsisOutsiders have long observed the contours of the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Muslim societies, but the most renowned voices of West African Sufism have rarely been heard outside of their respective constituencies. This volume brings together writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal), who, between them, founded the largest Muslim communities in African history. Jihad of the Pen offers translations of Arabic source material that proved formative to the constitution of a veritable Islamic revival sweeping West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recurring themes shared by these scholars—etiquette on the spiritual path, love for the Prophet Muhammad, and divine knowledge—demonstrate a shared, vibrant scholarly heritage in West Africa that drew on the classics of global Islamic learning, but also made its own contributions to Islamic intellectual history. The authors have selected enduringly relevant primary sources and richly contextualized them within broader currents of Islamic scholarship on the African continent. Students of Islam or Africa, especially those interesting in learning more of the profound contributions of African Muslim scholars, will find this work an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation Introduction: Zachary Wright Four Saintly Biographies Islamic Intellectual Production in West Africa Islamic Law in West Africa Philosophy and Metaphysics Women Scholars of West Africa Structure of the Book Shaykh ?Uthman b. Fudi: Rudolph Ware, with translations by Aisha Bewley and Muhammad Shareef Roots of the Religion (Kitab usul al-din) Sciences of Behavior (?Ulum al-mu?amala) Book of Distinction (Kitab al-tafriqa) Shaykh ?Umar al-Futi Tal: Amir Syed Reminder for the Seekers (Tadhkirat al-mustarshidin) Lances of the Party of the Merciful (Rimah hizb al-Rahim) Vessel of Happiness (Safinat al-sa?ada) Shaykh A?mad Bamba Mbacké: Rudolph Ware The Valiant One (al-Sandid) Pathways to Paradise (Manasalik al-jinan) Gifts of the Benefactor (Mawahib al-Nafi?) Shaykh Ibrahim ?Abdallah Niasse: Zachary Wright The Spirit of Etiquette (Ruh al-adab) The Removal of Confusion (Kashif al-ilbas) The Jeweled Letters (Jawahir al-rasa?il) Poetry for the Prophet (from Diwawin al-sitt) Conclusion: Rudolph Ware
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State University of New York Press Inscriptions of Wisdom
£80.75
Academic Studies Press Faith and Trust
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Fons Vitae A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching
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