Mysticism Books

Book SynopsisIn recent years maṇḍalas have attracted much interest among a wider public. The main focus of such interest has been directed toward Tibetan maṇḍalas, specimens of which have been included in numerous publications. But maṇḍalas are found across a wide spectrum of South Asian religious traditions, including those of the Hindus and Jains. Hindu maṇḍalas and yantras have hardly been researched. This book attempts to fill this gap by clarifying important aspects of maṇḍalas and yantras in specific Hindu traditions through investigations by renowned specialists in the field. Its chapters explore maṇḍalas and yantras in the Smārta, Pāñcarātra, Śaiva and Śākta traditions. An essay on the vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala and its relationship to architecture is also included. With 13 colour plates.Trade Review"This ecxellent volume presents in depth articles on maṇḍalas and yantras by several leading scholars on this topic…" – Frederick M. Smith, in: Religious Studies Review, 2004 "An outstanding sholarly work." – Georg Feuerstein, in: Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive, 2005 "Un ouvrage à la fois érudit, technique et accessible…" – Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, in: Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 2005

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. This publication is a revised edition of the original hardback publication, please click here for details.Trade Review'Hidden Wisdom is an important interpretation of the changing attitudes toward esotericism that were a significant aspect of the early development of Christianity...wealth of new insights.' Bernard McGinn, History of Religion, 1999. '…the book contains much valuable, intriguing material.' Jorunn J. Buckley, Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 'Stroumsa's book will prove important to anyone interested in esotericism, mysticism, and the Jewish origins of early Christianity. Recommended for all libraries.' Laurence H. Kant, Religious Studies Review, 2001. '…imposante et suggestive documentation…' Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, Compres Rendus.

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Book SynopsisJan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), the most influential medieval Dutch author, is generally acknowledged to be one of the key figures in the tradition of Christian mysticism. This book concentrates on the medieval dimensions of Ruusbroec’s authorship. Warnar offers a comprehensive analysis of Ruusbroec’s oeuvre within the social, religious and literary frameworks of the fourteenth century Low Countries. Ruusbroec emerges as an author who was fully engaged in contemporary discussions on the contemplative life and mystical theology, as a charismatic guide who attracted a growing number of disciples first from the Low Countries but soon from all over Western Europe, and as the architect of a vernacular oeuvre of international interest from the Middle Ages to modern times.Trade Review'Warnar's book will be indispensable for the study of Ruusbroec." Bernard McGinn, The Journal of Religion (July 2008) 403-404.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Contested Wisdom I. BRUSSELS 1. Ancestry and Inwardness 2. Lessons and Liturgy 3. Years of Silence 4. ‘The first book he made’ II. THE ESPOUSALS 1. Bloemardinne and Beguine Mysticism 2. A Chaplain at the Church of St Gudula 3. The Espousals in Context 4. Masterpiece III. ‘THIS AUTHOR IS CALLED JAN VAN RUUSBROEC’ 1. Inspired Authorship 2. Guide to Gottesfreunde 3. Heretics and Clerics 4. Conversation with a Hermit IV. GROENENDAAL 1. Farewell to Brussels 2. Priests in the Forest 3. The Exposition of the Tabernacle 4. Jan van Leeuwen and the Lay Brothers V. THE GOOD PRIOR 1. Scholars at Groenendaal 2. The Letters, the Baroness and the Convent of Rich Clares 3. Ruusbroec’s Women 4. Highest Truth VI. A CLEARLY ENLIGHTENED MAN 1. Ruusbroec’s Latter Years 2. De numero et ordine suorum voluminum 3. Epilogue from Eemstein 4. Fireworks and Feasting Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.Trade Review“fascinating analyses […] these essays will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of early modern religion; among other things, they make useful, nuanced contributions to the debate on whether the Reformation fostered the disenchantment of the world.” Jeffrey R. Watt, University of Mississippi. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 184-185.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editors’ Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Clare Copeland & Jan Machielsen I Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe Euan Cameron II Dangerous Visions: The Experience of Teresa of Avila and the Teaching of John of the Cross. Colin Thompson III Participating in the Divine: Visions and Ecstasies in a Florentine Convent Clare Copeland IV Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940) Jan Machielsen V Discerning the “Call” and Fashioning Dead Disciples: The Many Lives of Augustine Baker Victoria Van Hyning VI A Seventeenth-Century Prophet confronts His Failures: Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß-Spiegel (1625) Leigh T. I. Penman viii CONTENTS VII Visions, Dreams, and the Discernment of Prophetic Passions: Sense and Reason in the Writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640–60 R. J. Scott VIII Gijsbert Voet and Discretio Spirituum after Descartes Anthony Ossa-Richardson IX “Incorporeal Substances”: Discerning Angels in Later Seventeenth-Century England Laura Sangha Afterword: Angels of Light and Images of Sanctity Stuart Clark

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Book SynopsisJohn of Ruusbroec (1293-1381) is one of the most important mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of Ruusbroec studies, including a survey of the mystical tradition in the Low Countries before Ruusbroec, a discussion of his life and works, the manuscript tradition, the most significant mystical-theological and literary themes, Latin translations of his work, and the widespread resonance of his thought across Europe until 1800. Finally, it offers a summary of secondary research since the nineteenth century. To complement the range of scholarly articles, this Companion also includes the first English translation of a series of Middle Dutch texts that offer deeper insight into Ruusbroec, his thought, and his mystical and literary context. Contributors include: Jos Andriessen, John Arblaster, Guido De Baere, Rob Faesen, Bernard McGinn, Hilde Noë, Kees Schepers, Loet Swart, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, and Lieve Uyttenhove.Trade Review“The articles in A Companion to John of Ruusbroec are solid, lucid, and rooted in Ruusbroec’s writings and the relevant secondary literature. They address satisfactorily the central questions associated with his life, mysticism, manuscript tradition, influence, and historiography. Moreover, enhancing and providing further clarification … are numerous maps and illustrations (several of which are in color), including maps of fourteenth-century Brussels and Ruusbroec’s world in the Brabant, and images of manuscript versions of his works as well as printed editions. Indeed, the Companion is a superlative collection of articles and could certainly now be considered the starting point for native English speakers – and really anyone – interested in John of Ruusbroec.” Andrew J.G. Drenas, University of Massachusetts-Lowell. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2015), pp. 148-150. “the present volume is a welcome contribution to the work of this important late medieval mystic.” John T. Slotemaker, Fairfield University. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 4 (December 2016), p. 302.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction John Arblaster & Rob Faesen Mysticism in the Low Countries Before Ruusbroec John Arblaster & Rob Faesen John of Ruusbroec’s Life and Works John Arblaster & Rob Faesen Ruusbroec in Edition: Manuscript and Print Guido de Baere Ruusbroec the Author Hilde Noë Essential Themes in Ruusbroec’s Mysticism Bernard McGinn Ruusbroec as a Theologian: The Holy Spirit Lieve Uyttenhove Ruusbroec, Jordaens, and Herp on the Common Life: The Transformation of a Spiritual Ideal Rik Van Nieuwenhove Ruusbroec in Latin: Impulses and Impediments Kees Schepers Ruusbroec’s Influence Until c.1800 Jos Andriessen Overview of Ruusbroec Research Loet Swart Appendices (Middle Dutch texts related to Ruusbroec translated by John Arblaster): Appendix One: Pseudo-Hadewijch Appendix Two: Two Poems attributed to Ruusbroec Appendix Three: The Prologue by Brother Gerard of Saintes Appendix Four: The Epilogue by the ‘Descendant’ (Nacomelinc) Appendix Five: The Eulogy of John of Ruusbroec by Jan van Leeuwen Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory – Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin – to the analysis of objects.Trade Review"Batsheva Goldman-Ida's Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah sets up a visual feast that recalls the ancient Tabernacle or Temple vessels while, at the same time, expanding our notion of the sacred." - Glenn Dynner, Jewish Review of Books (Fall 2018).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Part 1: Manuscripts 1 Hasidic Prayer Book  Continuity and Change  Significance  Conclusion Part 2: Ritual Objects 2 Hasidic Wine Cup  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 3 Hasidic Seder Plate  Continuity and Change  Models  Influences  Significance  Conclusion 4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament  Continuity and Change  Models  Shpanyer-Arbet  Influences  Significance  Conclusion Part 3: Folk Art 6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox  Continuity and Change  Models  Significance  Conclusion 7 Hasidic Talismans  Continuity and Change  Models  Influence  Significance  Conclusion 8 The Hasidic Rabbi’s Chair  Continuity and Change  Influences  Significance  Conclusion 9 Conclusion  Symbolism  Mythic Context  Hasidic Context  Worship through Corporeality  The Nature of Hasidism  New Directions in Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLiving Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d.1975, Senegal). With millions of followers throughout Africa and the world, the community arguably represents one of the twentieth century’s most successful Islamic revivals. Niasse’s followers, members of the Tijāniyya Sufi order, gave particular attention to the widespread transmission of the experiential knowledge (maʿrifa) of God. They also worked to articulate a global Islamic identity in the crucible of African decolonization. The central argument of this book is that West African Sufism is legible only with an appreciation of centuries of Islamic knowledge specialization in the region. Sufi masters and disciples reenacted and deepened preexisting teacher-student relationships surrounding the learning of core Islamic disciplines, such as the Qurʾān and jurisprudence. Learning Islam meant the transformative inscription of sacred knowledge in the student’s very being, a disposition acquired in the master’s exemplary physical presence. Sufism did not undermine traditional Islamic orthodoxy: the continued transmission of Sufi knowledge has in fact preserved and revived traditional Islamic learning in West Africa.Trade Review'Wright’s close reading of those sources is a particular strength. As an excellent arabist, he offers a fascinating and deep analysis of the doctrines and views of Ibrahim Niasse by looking at his collections of poems, theological treaties, and letters to disciples. Especially Niasse’s poetry is a useful source for the study of this Tijani community as acknowledged by many, however nobody before Wright has undertaken such a deep and systematic reading of Niasse’s poetry'. Ousmane Kane, Harvard University, in Islamic Africa8 (2017), pp. 229-231Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface List of Illustrations Glossary Note on Orthography Introduction Theoretical Considerations Macrohistory Habitus Embodiment and Subjectivity Literature Review Narrative Structure of the Book Chapter 1: Clerical Communities in West African History Enduring Learning Practices Islamic Jurisprudence of the Mālikī School Qurʾān Learning Esoteric Sciences Sufism Muslim Scholars in West African Social History The Jihad of Ma Ba Diakhou The Social Appeal of the New Marabout Communities Chapter 2: A New Senegambian Clerical Community The Niasse: Social and Intellectual Background Ibrāhīm Niasse and the ‟Community of the Flood” Chapter 3: Honored Disciples: The Cissé of the Saloum ʿAbdallāh Niasse and the Cissé of Diossong ʿAlī Cissé and Paradigmatic Discipleship Chapter 4: Knowing God On Spiritual Training Being Filled with God The Prophet Muḥammad, Mirror of God Aḥmad al-Tijānī and Divine Cognizance Chapter 5: Understanding Sufi Discipleship Assuring the Aspirants Conduct of the Disciple Qualities of the Spiritual Guide Disciple Perspectives Chapter 6: The Adaptation of Traditional Learning Practices Maintaining the Sanad Tradition Adopting the Madrasa Maintaining the Learning Circles Strategies of Structural Adaptation Chapter 7: Cognizance and the Revival of the Islamic Sciences Qurʾān Learning and Knowing God Sufism and Mālikī Jurisprudence in Medina-Baye The Esoteric Sciences and Shaykh-Disciple Relations Divine Cognizance and the Sufi Orders in West Africa Chapter 8: Islam and African Decolonization: Community Solidarities and Distinctions Islam and African Liberation Islam and the Postcolonial Nation-State Pan-Africanism A Vision of Global Islamic Solidarity Conclusion Bibliography and Sources Index

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Book SynopsisBased on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains a transcription of the (unfortunately partly damaged) manuscript, an English translation of it, and several articles opening up new horizons concerning the life and spirituality of Maria Petyt and her historical and religious backgrounds. The authors characterize Maria Petyt as a self-confident spiritual daughter with a strong political mission, a zealous figure fighting side by side with Louis XIV for the catholic victory during the Dutch War, and as one who lived and profoundly understood the spirituality of Teresa of Avila.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Elisabeth Hense, Veronie Meeuwsen and Esther van de Vate Part 1 Maria Petyt in her Context 1 Maria Petyt – A Short Biography Esther van de Vate 2 Maria Petyt against the Background of the Political and Religious Situation in Flanders in the Seventeenth Century Esther van de Vate 3 Daily Life at the Hermitage in Mechelen at the Time of Maria Petyt (1657–1677) Michel van Meerbeeck 4 Living as a Spiritual Virgin and Claiming Prophetic Authority: The Parallel Lives of Maria Petyt and Antoinette Bourignon Mirjam de Baar Part 2 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its interpretations 5 Some Notes on the History of the Latin Manuscript of the Life of Maria Petyt by Michael of St. Augustine Giovanni Grosso 6 ‘Oh, How Spiritual Directors are Obliged to Remain Silent!’ Michael’s Redaction of the Writings of Maria Petyt: Some Initial Findings Esther van de Vate 7 The Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War and Its Translation in English Veronie Meeuwsen (ed.) 8 Maria Petyt’s Support of the French King Veronie Meeuwsen 9 The Spirituality of Teresa of Avila and the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War (folios 30r–49v) Elisabeth Hense 10 The Prophetic Spirituality of Maria Petyt in the Latin Manuscript about the Dutch War Anne-Marie Bos Epilogue Joseph Chalmers

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Book SynopsisSayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi’s introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic prayer. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the nature of reality as the countenance of the divine. Drawing upon scriptural sources and the Shīʿah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Translator’s Introduction Author’s Dedication Prologue Introduction 1 The Degrees and Progressions of Man and the Degrees and Levels of Prayer 2 On the Prayer of the Wayfarer and the Perfect Nearmost One 3 On the Mystery of the Prayer of the Folk of Gnosis 4 On the Presence of the Heart and its Levels 5 On the Means of Realising the Presence of the Heart 6 On Matters which Aid in Realising the Presence of the Heart Part 1 On the Preludes to Prayer 1 On the Mystery of Purity 2 On the Mysteries of Purification with Water and Earth 3 On the Tradition of Imām al-Ṣādiq Regarding Ablution 4 On the Mysteries of a Noble Ḥadīth 5 On the Mystery of the Covering Up of Shame 6 On the Removal of Impurity 7 On the Location of Prayer 8 On the Permissibility of a Location of Worship 9 On the Mysteries of Time 10 On the Mystery of Turning Towards the Kaʿbah Part 2 On the Linkings of Prayer and their Correspondences 1 On the Mysteries of the Calls to Prayer 2 On the Mysteries of Standing During Prayer 3 On the Mysteries of Intention 4 On the Mystery of the Opening Magnifications 5 On Some of the Mysteries of Qurʾānic Recitation During Prayer 6 On the Mystery of Seeking Refuge in God 7 On the Mysteries of Sūrat al-Ḥamd 8 On an Allusion to the Exegesis of the Noble Sūrat al-Tawḥīd 9 On Some of the Mysteries of Bowing During Prayer 10 On the Mystery of Raising the Head after Bowing 11 On the Mystery of Prostration 12 On the Mystery of the Testimony of Prayer and the Invocation of Peace in Prayer Epilogue Translator’s Bibliography Persian Editors’ Bibliography Index Index of Qurʾānic Verses

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Book SynopsisSayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi’s introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic prayer. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the nature of reality as the countenance of the divine. Drawing upon scriptural sources and the Shīʿah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Translator’s Introduction Author’s Dedication Prologue Introduction 1 The Degrees and Progressions of Man and the Degrees and Levels of Prayer 2 On the Prayer of the Wayfarer and the Perfect Nearmost One 3 On the Mystery of the Prayer of the Folk of Gnosis 4 On the Presence of the Heart and its Levels 5 On the Means of Realising the Presence of the Heart 6 On Matters which Aid in Realising the Presence of the Heart Part 1 On the Preludes to Prayer 1 On the Mystery of Purity 2 On the Mysteries of Purification with Water and Earth 3 On the Tradition of Imām al-Ṣādiq Regarding Ablution 4 On the Mysteries of a Noble Ḥadīth 5 On the Mystery of the Covering Up of Shame 6 On the Removal of Impurity 7 On the Location of Prayer 8 On the Permissibility of a Location of Worship 9 On the Mysteries of Time 10 On the Mystery of Turning Towards the Kaʿbah Part 2 On the Linkings of Prayer and their Correspondences 1 On the Mysteries of the Calls to Prayer 2 On the Mysteries of Standing During Prayer 3 On the Mysteries of Intention 4 On the Mystery of the Opening Magnifications 5 On Some of the Mysteries of Qurʾānic Recitation During Prayer 6 On the Mystery of Seeking Refuge in God 7 On the Mysteries of Sūrat al-Ḥamd 8 On an Allusion to the Exegesis of the Noble Sūrat al-Tawḥīd 9 On Some of the Mysteries of Bowing During Prayer 10 On the Mystery of Raising the Head after Bowing 11 On the Mystery of Prostration 12 On the Mystery of the Testimony of Prayer and the Invocation of Peace in Prayer Epilogue Translator’s Bibliography Persian Editors’ Bibliography Index Index of Qurʾānic Verses

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Book SynopsisDas vorliegende Buch widmet sich den Lebensumständen und der Berufsethik der arabischen Ärzte des Mittelalters. Auf der Grundlage zahlreicher biographischer, protreptischer, deontologischer und isagogischer Schriften untersucht Bürgel verschiedenste Aspekte der medizinischen Ausbildung, der Berufsausübung und der Rolle von Ärzten in der islamischen Gesellschaft. The present book investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspects of medical education, professional conduct, and the role of doctors in Islamicate societies.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Quellenübersicht Teil I. Orts- und Grenzbestimmungen der Medizi 1. Die Definition der Medizin (ḥadd aṭ-ṭibb) 2. Die Einteilung der Medizin (taqsīm/aqsām aṭ-ṭibb) Die „natürlichen“ und die „notwendigen“ Dinge 3. Die Legitimität der Medizin (ṣiḥḥat aṭ-ṭibb) Das tawakkul-Problem Die rationale Rechtfertigung der Heilkunst, namentlich bei Ibn Hindū Die religiöse Rechtfertigung der Heilkunst Rechtfertigung der Medizin aus dem Hadith Die Rechtfertigung der Medizin aus dem Koran 4. Der Adel der Medizin (šaraf aṭ-ṭibb) Ar-Ruhāwīs Kapitel über den „Adel der Heilkunst“ Ibn Hindūs Kapitel über den „Adel der Heilkunst“ 5. Die medizinischen Schulen (firaq aṭ-ṭibb) Ibn Hindūs Kapitel über die medizinischen Schulen 6. Die Erkenntnismittel der Medizin Bei Ibn Hindū Bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa Bei ar-Ruhāwī Zusammenfassung 7. Das Ideal der „Symmetrie“ (iʿtidāl) Teil II. Die Ausbildung der Ärzte 1. Eignung und Berufswahl 2. Allgemeine Umrisse des Medizinstudiums Qirāʾa und ḫidma – „Lektüre“ und „Dienst“ Zur Rolle des Lehrers Zur Frage der medizinischen Lehrstätten 3. Der Unterricht im maǧlis 4. Der Unterricht am Hospital (bīmāristān) 5. Die praktische Lehrzeit (ḫidma) 6. Der Lehrstoff I: Die propädeutischen Fächer Die Logik 96 – Sonstige Fächer: bei Ṣāʿid Sonstige Fächer: bei Ibn Hindū Sonstige Fächer: bei Ibn Riḍwān und ar-Ruhāwī 7. Der Lehrstoff II: Der Alexandrinische Kanon Gründe für die Entstehung des Kanons laut arabischer Überlieferung Die angeblichen Autoren des Kanons Die Schriften des Kanons Vorzüge und Mängel des Kanons in der Sicht arabischer Ärzte 8. Allgemeine Bildungsbestrebungen 9. Die Spezialisierung 10. Die Prüfung der Ärzte (miḥnat/imtiḥān al-aṭibbāʾ) Ar-Ruhāwīs Prüfungskapitel ar-Rāzīs Prüfungsschrift Ṣāʿids Prüfungskapitel Ibn Buṭlāns „Gastmahl der Ärzte“ as-Sulamīs Prüfungsfragen Die Prüfung der Ärzte in den Ḥisba-Büchern Konkrete Prüfungsfälle: Einzelprüfungen Gruppenprüfungen Zusammenfassung Teil III. Die praktische Berufsausübung des Arztes A Erscheinungsformen des Arztes 1. Lebensführung und Berufsethik Allgemeine Vorstellungen über die rechte Lebensführung des Arztes Äußere Erscheinung, Körperpflege und Kleidung Standesbedingtes Verhalten Der deontologische Aspekt Die Rolle des hippokratischen Eides Über den „Eid“ hinausgehende arztethische Forderungen Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf die Art und den Status der Krankheit Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf den sozialen Status des Kranken Ausmaß und Grenzen ärztlicher Barmherzigkeit im Hinblick auf die Konfession des Kranken Schlussbemerkung 2. Der Erfolgsarzt Spürsinn (ḥads) und Prognose (taqdimat al-maʿrifa) Der Topos vom Puls der Liebeskranken Der Topos von der Erweckung Scheintoter Die Rolle der Suggestionskraft 3. Der Scharlatan Der Scharlatan bei ar-Ruhāwī Der Scharlatan bei ar-Rāzī Scheinoperationen Zusammenfassung 4. Der Arzt als Hüter der Gesundheit Der Begriff der ḥimya Der Weingenuss und das Hören von Musik Der Geschlechtsgenuss 5. Der Arzt als Heilender I.: Der Arzt im Sprechzimmer, im Krankenzimmer und im Hospital 6. Der Arzt als Heilender II.: Psychotherapeutica Die Lehren über den psychosomatischen Zusammenhang und die daraus resultierende Zuständigkeit des Arztes für seelische Leiden Das suggestive und autosuggestive Moment im Heilungsprozess Schocktherapie Psychopharmaka Zusammenfassung B Zur Stellung des Arztes in der Gesellschaft: Der Arzt und seine Partner 1. Arzt und Laie Die Unwissenheit der Laien als Bedingung ärztlicher Existenz Die Unwissenheit der Laien als Gefährdung ärztlicher Existenz 2. Arzt und Herrscher Bewertung des Hofdienstes seitens der Ärzte Karrieren berühmter Hofärzte Hofkarrieren ehemals unbekannter Ärzte Die üblichen Obliegenheiten des Hofarztes Betrauung mit Hofämtern Ehrungen und Privilegien Arroganz und Koketterie Strafen und Willkürakte 3. Der Arzt und sein Kollege 4. Arzt und Apotheker 5. Verantwortlichkeit und Straffälligkeit Teil IV. Koordinaten und Perspektiven 1. Das griechische Erbe Die orientalistische Diskussion über die Rezeption der Antike im Islam Bemerkungen zur Rezeption der vorgalenischen Antike bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa Das Bild Galens bei Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿas „Orientalisches“ und „Griechisches“ in der Galen-Rezeption bei anderen arabischen Autoren Rezeption und Assimilation 2. Die Islamisierung der Medizin Die Bedeutung der Prophetenmedizin Ärztliche Kritik an der Prophetenmedizin Die Islamisierung des „ärztlichen Lebens“ Die Stellung der jüdischen und christlichen Ärzte Zusammenfassung 3. Der Niedergang der arabischen wissenschaftlichen Medizin Das Verfalls-Klischee Symptome und Ursachen des Verfalls der Heilkunst nach Ansicht arabischer Ärzte Ibn Ǧumaiʿs Kapitel über die Ursachen des Verfalls der Heilkunst Schlusswort English Summaries Abkürzungsverzeichnis Literaturverzeichnis I. Liste der in Beirut, Istanbul und Bursa eingesehenen medizinischen arabischen Handschriften II. Sonstige arabische Quellen III. Griechische Quellen IV. 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Book SynopsisIn Power Brokers in Ottoman Egypt, Side Emre documents the biography of Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the history of the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes (c. 1440-1600). Set mainly in Mamluk-Egypt, and in the century following the region’s conquest by the Ottomans, this book analyzes sociopolitical dialogues at the geographic peripheries of an empire through the actions of and official responses to the Gulshaniyya network. Emre argues that the members of this Sufi order exerted social and political leverage and contributed significantly to the political culture of the empire and Egypt. The Gulshanis are uncovered as unexpected figures among the roster of influential players, in contrast with empire-centered historiographies that depict Ottoman ruling and learned elites as the primary shapers and narrators of the fates of conquered provinces and peoples. The Gulshanis’ political and cultural legacy is situated within an analysis of perceptions of Sufism in the early modern Ottoman world.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention award in the 2018 OTSA Köprülü book prize competition “Side Emre’s deeply researched and carefully argued study of one important figure, Ibrāhīm-i Gulshanī (c. 1442–1534), examines the political role of Sufism in the period of transition, and even up to the beginning of the seventeenth century.” Adam Sabra in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published online 23 Februari 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18000368Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration and Dating Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Gülşenī’s Biography in the Hagiographical Imagination (ca. 846–916/1442–1510) Chapter 2: Arrival in a Safe Haven: Gülşenī’s Early Years in Mamluk Egypt (913 or 916–923/1507 or 1510–17) Chapter 3: Gülşenī’s Relationships with the Last Two Mamluk Rulers Chapter 4: After the Ottoman Conquest: A New Life Begins (923–31/1517–25) Chapter 5 :The Establishment of the Gülşeniye Lodge Complex (925–31/1519–25) Chapter 6 :Heresy, Religious Innovation, and Law in Egypt (928–31/1522–25) Chapter 7: Who is an Ideal Sufi? A Reconsideration of the “Heretical” Gülşenīs in the Context of the “Ottoman Way” Chapter 8 :Later Egypt Years (930–31/1524–25) and the conflict between Gülşenī and Aḥmed Pasha Chapter 9: Gülşenī’s Final Years and the Gülşeniye legacy (931–1019/1525–1610) Chapter 10: Gülşenī’s Heirs and the Founder’s Legacy in the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe collection of Aramaic magic bowls and related objects in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin is one of the most important in the world. This book presents a description of each object and its contents, including details of users and other names, biblical quotations, parallel texts, and linguistic features. Combined with the detailed indices, the present volume makes the Berlin collection accessible for further research. Furthermore, sixteen texts, which are representative of the whole collection, are edited. This book results from an impressive collaboration between Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, and Ortal-Paz Saar, with further contributions by Matthew Morgenstern, Marco Moriggi, and Naama Vilozny, and will be of interest for all those engaged in the study of these fascinating objects. "The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects.... The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)Trade Review"The presentation, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries are excellent examples of the finest scholarship from some of the leading scholars in the study of ancient Aramaic and its dialects [...]. The manuscript and the bowls it introduces should be eagerly received and examined by graduate students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible, esoteric traditions of later antiquity (like the seals of Solomon, demonology, etc.), and the historical development of Aramaic." - Peter T. Lanfer, Occidental College, in: Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Sigla List of Contributors Introduction Text Editions I VA.2182 II VA.3854 III VA.2418 IV VA.2428 V VA.Bab.2829 + VA.unnumberedD VI VA.2269 VII VA.2510 VIII VA.2419 IX VA.2445 + VA.unnumberedC X VA.2439 + VA.unnumberedA (rim) + VA.unnumberedB (side) XI VA.2435 XII VA.3383 XIII VA.Bab.2765 XIV VA.Bab.4167i XV VA.Bab.2792 XVI VA.Bab.2764 and VA.Bab.2840 Catalogue Joined Fragments (with Different Shelf Marks) Glossary Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Mandaic Syriac List of Terms Discussed List of Divine Names, Angels, Demons, and Exemplary Figures List of Beneficiaries and Adversaries List of Biblical Quotations List of Texts Bibliography Index

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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

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Book SynopsisFor generations, Central Asian Muslims have told legends of medieval rulers who waged war, died in battle, and achieved sainthood. Among the Uyghurs of East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China), some of the most beloved legends tell of the warrior-saint Satuq Bughra Khan and his descendants, the rulers of the Qarakhanid dynasty. To this day, these tales are recited at the saints' shrines and retold on any occasion. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road introduces this rich literary tradition, presenting the first complete English translation of the Qarakhanid narrative cycle along with an accessible commentary. At once mesmerizing, moving, and disturbing, these legends are essential texts in Central Asia's religious heritage as well as fine, enduring works of mystical literature.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction 1 Introduction 2 The Setting 3 Notes on the Manuscript, the Transcription, and the Translation Translation 4 The Translation 5 The Narrative and Its Meanings Bibliography The Manuscript: Transcription The Manuscript: Facsimile

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Book SynopsisDie Geheimnisse der oberen und der unteren Welt (The Secrets of the Upper and the Lower World) is a substantial new collection of essays on magic in Islamic cultural history. Both comprehensive and innovative in its approach, this book offers fresh insights into an important yet still understudied area of Islamic intellectual history. The seventeen chapters deal with key aspects of Islamic magic, including its historical developments, geographical variants, and modern-day practices. The general introduction identifies and problematizes numerous sub-topics and key practitioners/theoreticians in the Arabo-Islamic context. This, along with terminological and bibliographical appendices, makes the volume an unparalleled reference work for both specialists and a broader readership. Contributors: Ursula Bsees, Johann Christoph Bürgel, Susanne Enderwitz, Hans Daiber; Sebastian Günther, Mahmoud Haggag, Maher Jarrar, Anke Joisten-Pruschke, Fabian Käs, Ulrich Marzolph, Christian Mauder, Tobias Nünlist, Khanna Omarkhali, Eva Orthmann, Bernd-Christian Otto, Dorothee Pielow, Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Johanna Schott & Johannes Thomann.Trade Review".. the most comprehensive overview of this topic in existence..." - George Archer, in: Reading Religion, August 22, 2017 "The very act of bringing together such a large number of specialists in different areas of Islamic studies is an accomplishment in itself, and it is a timely one... Roads to Paradise maps out a beginning of modern academic research into Muslim eschatology." - Sajjad Rizvi, in: Al-Abhath 64 (2016)Table of ContentsZum Geleit  Johann Christoph Bürgel Danksagung Abkürzungsverzeichnis häufig verwendeter Referenzwerke und Zeitschriften Abbildungsverzeichnis Die Autoren Zur Transkription Zur Einführung 1 Magie im Islam Gegenstand, Geschichte und Diskurs  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow  1 Forschungsstand zur Magie im Islam  2 Magietheorien im europäischen Forschungsdiskurs  3 Begriffe und Begrifflichkeit der Magie  4 Die Magie im Verständnis muslimischer Gelehrter  5 Forschungsfragen und Themen der Beiträge Abschnitt I Magie im Kanon der Wissenschaften: Begrifflichkeit und Bedeutung 2 Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār über Magie  Maher Jarrar  1 Magie und Religion  2 Anhang 3 Magie im theologisch-rechtlichen Diskurs der arabisch-islamischen Gelehrsamkeit  Mahmoud Haggag  1 Der Magiebegriff und seine Deutung im Spiegel verschiedener literarischer Genres  2 Magie im zeitgenössischen theologisch-rechtlichen Diskurs  3 Fazit 4 Magie und Kausalität im Islam  Hans Daiber  1 Zwei jemenitische Texte zur Beschwörung des Diebes  2 Die magische Wirkung von „Knoten“ und „Blasen“ – griechische Parallelen  3 Magie und neuplatonische „Sympathie“  4 Eine Philosophie der Magie – Kindī, De radiis  5 Anhang: Drei weitere jemenitische Texte zur Beschwörung des Diebes 5 Magie zwischen galenischer und prophetischer Medizin  Lutz Richter-Bernburg  1 Ibn Hindū (gest. 420/1029)  2 Ibn Ḫaldūn (gest. 808/1406)  3 Ibn Qayyim al-Ǧauziyya (gest. 751/1350)  4 Fazit Abschnitt II Traditionslinien arabisch-magischer Dokumente 6 Dokumentarische Materialien zur Magie aus der Frühzeit des Islams Forschungsfragen und Forschungsansätze  Ursula Bsees  1 Der Forschungsstand zu dokumentarischen Quellen der arabisch-islamischen Magie  2 Mögliche Fragen im Umkreis der Texte  3 Magie in der Praxis: P.Vind.inv. A.P. 10002 7 Arabische magische Dokumente Typen, visuelle Gestaltung und Traditionslinien  Johannes Thomann  1 Informationsmittel  2 Amulette aus Koranpassagen  3 Brillenbuchstaben  4 Zeichnungen von Lebewesen  5 Spiralschrift  6 Magische Quadrate  7 Blockdrucke  8 Horoskopdiagramme  9 Geomantische Figuren Abschnitt III Amulette, Astrologie und magische Formeln 8 Entzauberte Amulettrollen Hinweise zu einer typologischen Gliederung  Tobias Nünlist  1 Der arabische Typ  2 Der persische Typ  3 Der türkisch-osmanische Typ  4 Schlussbemerkungen 9 Astrologische Voraussagen über den Jagderfolg Der Katarchen-Abschnitt des K. al-Qānūn al-wāḍiḥ von Ibn Quštimur  Fabian Käs  1 Zum Autor  2 Zum Werk  3 Zur Handschrift  4 Text und Übersetzung  5 Bezug zur Falknereiliteratur  6 Bezug zur Katarchenliteratur 10 Nur hinter verschlossenen Türen? Das Amt des muḥtasib und die Öffentlichkeit von Astrologie, Wahrsagerei, Zauberei und Amulettgebrauch  Christian Mauder  1 Das Amt des muḥtasib: Geschichte, Funktion und öffentlicher Charakter  2 Wahrsagerei, Astrologie, Zauberei und Amulettgebrauch in der Literatur über den muḥtasib  3 Astrologie und verwandte Praktiken in der theoretischen ḥisba-Literatur  4 Astrologie und verwandte Praktiken in Einstellungsurkunden für muḥtasibs  5 Wahrsagerei, Zauberei, Astrologie und Amulettgebrauch in ḥisba-Handbüchern  6 Fazit Abschnitt IV Buchstaben, Gottesnamen und die Magie der Mystik 11 „Ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß …“ Die Bedeutung des geheimen Namens in der islamischen Magie  Dorothee Pielow  1 Die metaphysische Bedeutung des Namens  2 ʿIlm as-sīmiyāʾ und die Bedeutung der Gottesnamen  3 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick 12 Die Beschwörung von Geistern und Planeten Al-Ǧawāhir al-ḫams von Muḥammad Ġauṯ Gwāliyārī  Eva Orthmann  1 Die Šaṭṭāriyya  2 Muḥammad Ġauṯ Gwāliyārī und Šaiḫ Phūl  3 Al-Ǧawāhir al-ḫams  4 Daʿwat al-asmāʾ al-ʿiẓām  5 Grundlagen  6 Äußere Rahmenbedingungen  7 Rezitationsweisen  8 Die Anrufungen  9 Die Eigenschaften der Namen  10 Planetenbeschwörung  11 Planeten- und Namensbeschwörungen in anderen Quellen  12 Fazit Abschnitt V Magie in der arabisch-islamischen Literatur 13 Magie in den Erzählungen aus Tausendundeine Nacht  Ulrich Marzolph  1 Antoine Galland und 1001 Nacht  2 Dimensionen des Magischen in 1001 Nacht  3 Magie in den populärsten Texten aus 1001 Nacht  4 Magie in den späteren Fassungen  5 Erzähltechnische Aspekte  6 Fazit 14 Magie in der arabischen Literatur und ein verliebter Dschinn aus Dschidda  Susanne Enderwitz  1 Magie und Mystik  2 Magie und Literatur  3 Magie und Science Fiction  4 Schluss: Der Phantasie das Wort Abschnitt VI Islamische Magie im Kontext von Synkretismus und Projektion 15 Kurdische Magie Jesidische magische Schalen  Khanna Omarkhali und Anke Joisten-Pruschke  1 Zur „Vorgeschichte“ der Zauberschalen  2 Magische Schalen bei den Jesiden  3 Fazit 16 Ökonomie der Angst Nordafrikanische und westafrikanische Magie im Vergleich  Johanna Schott  1 Definitionen  2 Theoretischer Hintergrund  3 Magie in Nordafrika  4 Magie in Westafrika  5 Nordafrikanische und westafrikanische Magie im Vergleich  6 Fazit Schlussbetrachtung 17 Magie im Islam Eine diskursgeschichtliche Perspektive  Bernd-Christian Otto Bibliographischer Appendix: Magie in arabischen Quellen und in der Forschungsliteratur  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow Terminologischer Appendix: Häufig in Texten zur Magie verwendete Begriffe: Arabisch-Deutsch  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow Indices Personenregister Geographische Bezeichnungen Bücher Heilige Schriften Hadith Sachregister

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Book SynopsisThe articles collected in Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem present diverse biographical aspects and the scholarly oeuvre of arguably the most influential Jewish-Israeli intellectual of the 20th century. Immigrating to Palestine in 1923, Gershom Scholem became one of the founders of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was the first to establish Jewish Mysticism as a scholarly discipline. The articles collected here reflect the diversity of Scholem’s intellectual scope including his contribution to Jewish Studies as a scholar of Kabbalah, religion and history, as a bibliophile, and an expert librarian of Judaica. Central aspects of Scholem’s impact on Jewish historiography, literature and art in Israel, Europe and the US, are presented to the reader for the first time.

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the origin and structure of the universe in mystical Islam (Sufism) with special reference to parallel realms of existence and their interaction. Contributors address Sufi ideas about the fate of human beings in this and future life under three rubrics: (1) cosmogony and eschatology (“where do we come from?” and “where do we go?”); (2) conceptualizations of the world of the here-and-now (“where are we now?”); and (3) visualizations of realms of existence, their hierarchy and mutual relationships (“where are we in relation to other times and places?”). Contributors are Christian Lange, Alexander Knysh, Noah Gardiner, Stephen Hirtenstein, Saeko Yazaki, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Leah Kinberg, Sara Sviri, Munjed M. Murad, Simon O’Meara, Pierre Lory, Mathieu Terrier, Michael Ebstein, Binyamin Abrahamov and Frederick Colby.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: What Is Sufi Cosmology?  Christian Lange and Alexander Knysh Part 1: Sufi Cosmogony and Eschatology 1 Cosmo-Eschatology in Sufi Thought and Practice  Noah Gardiner 2 Cosmogonic Myths in Sufism  Stephen Hirtenstein 3 Classes of Beings in Sufism  Saeko Yazaki 4 Sufi Views on Time and History  Jean-Jacques Thibon 5 Sufi Views of Life in the Grave  Leah Kinberg 6 Paradise in Sufi Thought  Christian Lange 7 Hell in Sufi Thought  Christian Lange Part 2: Sufi Views of the World 8 Zuhd in Islamic Mysticism  Sara Sviri 9 Sufi Views of Nature  Munjed M. Murad 10 Mecca and Other Cosmological Centres in the Sufi Universe  Simon O’Meara 11 Macrocosm and Microcosm in Sufi Thought  Pierre Lory 12 The Cosmo-Eschatology of Saints and Mahdīs  Noah Gardiner Part 3: Levels of Being in Sufi Thought 13 Sufi Hierarchies of the Worlds or Levels of Existence: Mulk, Malakūt, Jabarūt, and Related Concepts  Mathieu Terrier 14 Emanation (Fayḍ) in Classical Islamic Mysticism  Michael Ebstein 15 Levels of Being in Sufi Thought  Richard Todd 16 Imagination in Islamic Mystical Philosophy: The Eschatological and Ontological Case  Binyamin Abrahamov 17 Otherworldly Journeys in Pre-Modern Sufism  Frederick Colby Index

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Book SynopsisSufism in Western Contexts explores both historical trajectories and multiple contemporary manifestations of Islamic mystical movements, ideas, and practices in diverse European, North and South American countries, as well as in Australia – all traditionally non-Muslim regions of the “global West”. From early French and British colonial administrators who admired Persian poetry to nineteenth-century American transcendentalists, followed by South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant Sufi guides and their movements, expansive and many-faceted expressions of Sufism such as its role in Western esotericism, female whirling dervishes and Rumi cafes, and new articulations in cyberspace, are traced and analyzed by international experts in the field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sufism in Western Contexts  Marcia K. Hermansen and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh Part 1: History, Reception, and Modes of Practice 1 Analytic Essay: The Idea of Sufism in the West  Gregory A. Lipton and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh 2 Sufism and Western Esotericism  Patrick D. Bowen 3 Sufism and New Religious Movements  Olav Hammer 4 Western Sufi Institutions and Practices  Merin Shobhana Xavier 5 Cyber Sufism in the Global West  Robert Rozehnal Part 2: Sufism in Regional Contexts 6 Analytic Essay: Sufism in Western Regional Settings  Jamal Malik 7 Sufism in Britain  Ron Geaves, Ayesha Khan and Amina Khatun 8 Sufism in Latin Europe (France, Spain, Italy)  Francesco Piraino and Antonio de Diego González 9 Sufism in German-Speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, German-Speaking Switzerland)  Gritt Klinkhammer and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh 10 Sufism in the Benelux Countries (Netherlands and Belgium)  M. Amer Morgahi 11 Sufism in Scandinavia  Simon Stjernholm 12 Sufism in North America  William Rory Dickson 13 Sufism in Latin America  Mark Sedgwick 14 Sufism in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand)  Milad Milani Index

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Book SynopsisIn Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interchange and fluidity in the resonance spaces of “East” and “West.” The volume challenges the enduring Orientalist binary coding of East-versus-West and argues instead for a more mutual process of cultural plaiting and shared tradition. By highlighting amendments, adaptations and expansions of Sufi semantics during the last centuries, it also questions the persistent perception of Sufism in its post-classical epoch as a corrupt imitation of the legacy of the great Sufis of the past.Trade Review“Examining texts and movements that transcend the dichotomy of East and West, the twelve essays collected here suggest new ways of studying Sufism as a medium of cross-cultural collusion. These rich case studies reveal how, whether through renewal or reinvention, misapprehension or métissage, Sufism has acquired a range of new meanings through the intercultural contacts of the modern era.” Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles “This collection of essays by some of the world’s leading scholars of Sufism is one of the most important scholarly contributions to have appeared in recent years for an understanding of how Sufism has been comprehended by Muslims and non-Muslims in the modern period.... As such the book is a fitting tribute to Annemarie Schimmel. Students and researchers of Islam and Sufism will find this work indispensable.” Lloyd Ridgeon, University of Glasgow “This is a worthy tribute to the memory of Annemarie Schimmel. From the definition and typology of Sufism to its orientalist and modernist constructions, from early encounters in Arabia and India to today’s manifestations in East and West, it contributes new findings and fresh insights to the ever-expanding study of the mystical aspect of Islam.” Itzchak Weismann, University of Haifa “From among the mass of publications devoted to Islamic mysticism, Sufism East and West stands out brilliantly. With twelve essays authored by leading scholars, the book not only refreshes our historical vision of Sufism in modern times but also shakes up our habits of thought about its socio-religious geography.” Alexandre Papas, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris “An engaging study of Sufism’s journey to the West, this book details the complexities involved in the exchange of philosophical ideas across cultures and offers rich insights into Sufi practitioners and their critics. It is a substantial contribution to Sufi studies.” Imtiaz Ahmad, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Transliteration Notes on Contributors Introduction   Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh Part 1: Construction and Reorientation of Sufism in the Modern World  1 The Dabistan and Orientalist Views of Sufism   Carl W. Ernst  2 Definitions of Sufism as a Meeting Place of Eastern and Western “Creative Imaginations”   Alexander Knysh  3 Sufi Amnesia in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Tahdhib al-Akhlaq     Jamal Malik  4 Discussing the Sufism of the Early Modern Period: A New Historiographical Outlook on the Tariqa Muhammadiyya   Rachida Chih Part 2: Interactions between Sufism and Western Culture  5 Sufism and the Gurdjieff Movement: Multiple Itineraries of Interaction   Mark Sedgwick  6 Beyond West Meets East: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Autobiographical Writings   Marcia Hermansen  7 Sufism in the Modern West: a Taxonomy of Typologies and the Category of “Dynamic Integrejectionism”   Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh Part 3: Sufism and the Representation of Islam  8 Between Two or Three Worlds: Reversion to Islam, Beur Culture and Western Sufism in the Tariqa Budshishiyya   Marta Dominguez Diaz  9 Between Religiosity, Cultural Heritage and Politics: Sufi-Oriented Interests in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina   Catharina Raudvere  10 Transmitting and Transforming Traditions: Salman Ahmad and Sufi Rock   Ali S. Asani Afterword   Bruce B. Lawrence Index

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Book SynopsisThus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 A Manifesto: The Qalandarnāma, by Amīr Ḥusayn Harawī  2 In Search of the Margins 1 In the Streets of Herat  1 A Presentation of the ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī’s Maḥbūb al-qulūb  2 Musicians, Singers, Storytellers  3 Ruffians, Bohemians, Paupers  4 Real and False Dervishes  5 Other Sources: Names and Words 2 Outside the Madrasas of Bukhara  1 About the Ādāb al-ṭarīq, by Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm  2 The Head of the Dervish  3 The Trunk and the Arms  4 The Lower Body  5 From Lexis to Relics 3 In the Ruins of Aksu  1 Kharābātī, a People’s Poet  2 To Peasants, Artisans, Doctors and the Powerful  3 The Call to Renunciation  4 On the Paradox of Language 4 In the Depths of the Grottoes of Central Asia  1 Silences in Khotan  2 Whispers in Tashkent and Samarkand  3 Graffiti in Manguistaou  4 Legends in Fergana and Pamir 5 On the Road with Cantors and Itinerants  1 The maddāḥ in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang  2 Abdāl tili, the Language of Outsiders  3 Argot and Mystical Language Conclusion: Dervishes Yesterday and Today Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisAbū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī (1145-1234) is the author of a classic work of Muslim piety, a key figure in the rise of institutional Sufism in the form of “orders” called “ṭarīqas,” and the influential eponym of one of these famous orders. This book presents studies, editions, and English translations of his shorter treatises that were originally penned in Arabic and Persian. Relying on global archival research, the book discovers materials that shed new light on his teachings and networks, as it traces the context, sources, and reception of his works. Carefully identifying the authentic works of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī, the book presents significant new information on a key moment in the history of Muslim piety and mysticism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Figures and Illustrations General Introduction 1 Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba: al-Suhrawardī’s Mentors in Sufism  1 Introduction: Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī  2 Companionship and the Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī  3 Notes on the Edition  4 Arabic Edition and English Translation of Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba  5 Analysis: The Immediate Masters of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī in the Genealogy  6 Reconstruction of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī’s Training and Travels  7 Abū al-Najīb al-Suhrawardī’s Genealogy of Companionship  8 Conclusion 2 Irshād al-Murīdīn wa Injād al-Ṭālibīn  1 Introduction  2 Irshād al-Murīdīn: What Is in a Title?  3 Reception  4 Technical Observations and Edition Information  5 Arabic Critical Edition of Irshād al-Murīdīn  6 English Translation of Irshād al-Murīdīn: Chapters on the Attire and Travel 3 Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr  1 Introduction: Majd al-Dīn al-Baghdādī and al-Suhrawardī  2 Reception  3 Sources  4 Notes on the Arabic Edition and the Manuscripts: Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr and Risāla fī-l-Sulūk  5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr  6 The Persian Text of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr in MS Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 1589 4 Al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya fī-l-Rūḥ  1 Introduction  2 Debates on the Spirit in Thirteenth Century Central Asian Sufism  3 Gender, Familial and Ontological Hierarchies  4 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition  5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya  6 Persian Text of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya 5 Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr  1 Introduction  2 Poverty and Affluence  3 Reception  4 Notes on the Edition  5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr 6 Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd  1 Introduction  2 Persian Text and English Translation of Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd 7 Futūḥāt  1 Introduction  2 Transmission  3 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition  4 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of the Futūḥāt 8 Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān  1 Introduction  2 Notes on the Edition and the Manuscripts of Ṣifat-i Khalvat  3 Persian Critical Edition and English Translation of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān  4 Turkish Text of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān in MS Hacı Selim Ağa 9 Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  1 Introduction  2 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī 10 Sharḥ al-Faqr  1 Introduction: Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān al-Abharī and al-Suhrawardī  2 Arabic Critical Edition of Sharḥ al-Faqr 11 Risāla dar Tavba  1 Introduction  2 Persian Text and an English Translation of Risāla dar Tavba 12 Ijāza ilā Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī  1 Introduction: Multān and the Transmission of the ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif  2 Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī  3 Arabic Text and an English Translation of Ijāza ilā Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ 13 Manuscript Information  1 Opera Suhrawardiana  2 Other Manuscripts Illustrations Bibliography Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Persons General Index

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Book SynopsisThe Horizons of Being explores the teachings of Ibn al-ʿArabī by examining Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī’s (d. 751/1350) Prolegomena to his commentary on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, popularly known as the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī. A masterpiece of Sufism, the Muqaddima is both a distillation of the Fuṣūṣ and a summary of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s entire metaphysical worldview. As such, it is a foundational text that delves into the most important subjects characterizing the philosophical Sufi tradition: Being, God’s attributes, divine knowledge, the universal worlds, unveiling, creation and the microcosm, the perfect human, the origin and return of the spirit, prophethood and sainthood. The present work is a complete translation of the Muqaddima and a commentary that incorporates the ideas of the main exponents of this tradition.Trade Review"Bringing together years of immersion into the Akbarian tradition, Mukhtar Ali’s study and translation of Qayṣarī’s famous Muqaddima is erudite, poetic, and profound. It clearly demonstrates why this text has historically been seen as one of the most important expositions of the Sufi metaphysical vision of reality, and also hints at why it should be taken seriously today. The Horizons of Being is therefore nothing short of a tour de force in modern scholarship, and is essential reading for all serious mystics, theologians, and philosophers." - Mohammed Rustom, author of Inrushes of the Heart: The Mystical Theology of ʿAyn al-QuḍātTable of ContentsContents Introduction Translation and Edition of the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī (مقدمة القيصري) Author’s Preface مقدمة الشارح 1 On Being, and that it is the Truth في الوجود وأنه هوالحق 2 The Divine Names and Attributes في أسمائه وصفاته تعالى 3 The Permanent Archetypes and a Comment on the Manifestations of the Names في الأعيان الثابتة والتنبيه على المظاهر الأسمائية 4 Substance and Accident According to God’s folk في الجوهر والعرض على طريقة أهل اللّٰه‏ 5 The Universal Worlds and the Five Divine Presences في بيان العوالم الكلية والحضرات الخمسة الإلهيّة 6 The Imaginal World فيما يتعلق بالعالم المثالي‏ 7 The Degrees of Unveiling and its Main Types في مراتب الكشف وأنواعها إجمالا 8 The World is the Form of the Human Reality في أن العالم هوصورة الحقيقة الإنسانية 9 The Vicegerency of the Muḥammadan Reality and that it is the Ultimate Pole في بيان خلافة الحقيقة المحمدية وأنّها قطب الأقطاب‏ 10 The Supreme Spirit, its Degrees and Names in the Human World في بيان الروح الأعظم ومراتبه وأسمائه في العالم الإنساني‏ 11 The Spirit’s Return to God with its Manifestations upon the Greater Resurrection في عود الروح ومظاهره إليه تعالى عند القيامة الكبرى 12 Prophethood, Messengership and Sainthood في النبوة والرسالة والولاية Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite America’s centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap. It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the ‘Other’; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America  Brian Ogren Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America 2 “They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles”: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination  Michael Hoberman 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity  Brian Ogren Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson’s Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America  Clémence Boulouque 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America  Boaz Huss 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor  Vadim Putzu Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America—Max Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)  Peter Lanchidi 8 Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy  Jonathan D. Sarna Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America  Eliyahu Stern 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism  Moshe Idel Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg’s Relation to Kabbalah  Yaakov Ariel 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast  Pinchas Giller 13 Aryeh Kaplan’s Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy  Alan Brill Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism 14 American Reform Judaism’s Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics  Dana Evan Kaplan 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah  Daniel Horwitz Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the ‘Other’ 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism  Ariel Evan Mayse 17 “The Lower Half of the Globe”: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Vision for Judaism’s American Era  Philip Wexler and Eli Rubin 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology  Elliot R. Wolfson Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach  Jody Myers 20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos  Marla Segol 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America  Ron Margolin

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Book SynopsisThe Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book follows al-Wāsiṭī’s physical journey in search of spiritual guidance through a critical study of his autobiographical writings. This provides unique insights into the Rifāʿiyya, the Shādhiliyya, and the school of Ibn ʿArabī, several manifestations of Sufism that he encountered as he travelled from Wāsiṭ to Baghdad, Alexandria, and Cairo. Part I closes with his final destination, Damascus, where his membership of Ibn Taymiyya’s circle and his role as a Sufi teacher is closely examined. The second part focuses on al-Wāsiṭī’s spiritual journey through a study of his Sufi writings, which convey the distinct type of traditionalist Sufism that he taught in early eighth/fourteenth-century Damascus. Besides providing an overview of the spiritual path unto God from beginning to end as he formulated it, this reveals an exceptional interplay between Sufi theory and traditionalist theology.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Physical Journey (al-Riḥla) Introduction: al-Wāsiṭī’s Biography Chapter 1. Leaving Home, Bastion of the Spectacular Rifāʿīs Chapter 2. Scholastic Sufism of the Alexandrian Shādhiliyya Chapter 3. The Final Steps: From Heretics to the Saved Sect Part II. The Spiritual Journey (al-Sulūk) Introduction: Sulūk as Sufism Chapter 4. Traditionalist Sufism: Outlining the Foundations of the Journey Chapter 5. Progressing Towards the Beloved Through the Degrees of Witnessing Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Stigmatics  Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers,  in collaboration with Andrea Graus  1 Introduction  2 Tracing Stigmata  3 The Invention of “Stigmatics”  4 Building Blocks 2 Saints and Celebrities  Tine Van Osselaer  1 Saints in the Spotlight  2 The Scale of Fame: Transnational and Comparative Approach  3 Religious Celebrities  4 An Interactive Approach 3 On Stigmata, Suffering and Sanctity  Tine Van Osselaer  1 Theodor Nolde’s Visit  2 The “Spectacle” of the Holy Wounds  3 The Meaning of Suffering  4 The Effect of Suffering on the Visitors 4 Visiting Stigmatics and Their Promotion from the Ground Up: The Devotees, the Unofficial Movements and the Episcopate in France  Andrea Graus  1 French Stigmatics and Visitors’ Expectations  2 Inside the Fridays of Passion  3 The Diocesan Response to the Visits  4 The Visitors’ Unofficial Movements  5 Conclusions 5 Selling Sensation, Creating Sanctity: The Visual and Material Culture of “Stigmatics”  Tine Van Osselaer  1 In the Public Eye  2 Commerce and Devotion  3 Capturing Corporeal Mysticism  4 Creativity after Death  5 Conclusions 6 Stigmatics, Politics and the Law: On Fake Stigmata and “Self-styled” Sanctity in Spain and France  Andrea Graus  1 Stigmatics and Political Symbolism  2 Sor Patrocinio, Rosette Tamisier and the “Two Spains/Frances”  3 The Law and the Public Debunking of Stigmatics  4 Fake Stigmata and Self-styled Sanctity in the Anticlerical Press  5 Conclusions 7 Stigmatized Blood in the Vatican Courts: Religious Response and Strategy  Leonardo Rossi  1 Introduction: An Ambiguous Relationship  2 The Vatican Perspective  3 Examining Stigmatics  4 Conclusions 8 Conclusion  Tine Van Osselaer  1 A Visible Type  2 New Types and the Scale of Their Circulation  3 Suggestions for Further Research Bibliography Biographical Dictionary of Stigmatics Index of Names and Subjects

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Book SynopsisArticles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres—ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents—developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘orthopraxy’ as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire. Contributors: Helen Pfeifer; Nabil al-Tikriti; Derin Terzioğlu; Tijana Krstić; Nir Shafir; Guy Burak; Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu; Grigor Boykov; H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu; Ünver Rüstem; Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer; Vefa Erginbaş; Selim Güngörürler.Trade Review"This collection of transformative essays provides much-needed contextualization and historicization of the concept of Sunnism in early modern Ottoman culture and practice... a fascinating, broad-ranging discussion of orthodoxy and orthopraxy as multiple, interwoven discursive processes that were and are situated in myriad historical moments and widespread geographical locations. Particularly impressive is how the essays each in different ways address the notorious (or celebrated) Ottoman institutionalization of tradition, belief, ritual, and interpretation as itself a nuanced engagement with ongoing local and global discourses, thereby drastically reconfiguring existing analyses of Ottoman bureaucracy writ large. This lively collection is a welcome intervention into one of the more exciting emergent scholarly conversations today... Summing Up: Highly recommended." - R. A. Miller, in: Choice Connect, July 2021 Vol. 58 No. 11Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Note on Transliteration 1 Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750  Tijana Krstić Part 1 Rethinking Sunni Orthodoxy in Dialogue with the Past and the Present 2 A New Hadith Culture? Arab Scholars and Ottoman Sunnitization in the Sixteenth Century  Helen Pfeifer 3 A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism  Nabil al-Tikriti 4 Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-sharʿiyya, and the Early Modern Ottomans  Derin Terzioğlu 5 You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (ʿilm-i ḥāls)  Tijana Krstić 6 How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman World  Nir Shafir 7 Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant  Guy Burak Part 2 Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization 8 Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʿİmāret as Mosque  Çiğdem Kafescioğlu 9 Abdāl-affiliated Convents and “Sunnitizing” Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli  Grigor Boykov 10 Attendance at the Five Daily Congregational Prayers, Imams and Their Communities in the Jurisprudential Debates during the Ottoman Age of Sunnitization  H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu 11 Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque  Ünver Rüstem Part 3 Sunnis, Shi‘is and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics 12 Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman Realm  Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer 13 Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya in Ottoman Historical Writing  Vefa Erginbaş 14 Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639  Selim Güngörürler Index

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Book SynopsisThe Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib is the devotional work written to expound upon the teachings of Aghā-yi Buzurg, a female religious master active in the early 16th century in Bukhara. The work was produced in 16th century Central Asia, when the region underwent major socio-economic and religio-political changes in the aftermath of the downfall of the Timurid dynasty and the establishment of the Shibanid dynasty in Mavarannahr and the Safavid dynasty in Iran. In its portrayal of Aghā-yi Buzurg, the Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib represents a tradition that maintained an egalitarian conception of gender in the spiritual equality of women and men, attesting to the presence of multiple voices in Muslim discourse and challenging conventional ways of thinking about gender history in early modern Central Asia.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction  1 History of Composition  2 The Manuscript Copies of the Maẓhar al-ʿAjāʾib  3 The Structure of the Maẓhar al-ʿAjāʾib  4 The Three Fables in the Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib  5 Poetry in the Maẓhar al-ʿAjāʾib as a Mirror into the Author’s Worldview  6 Pseudo-ʿAṭṭār’s Maẓhar al-ʿAjāʾib as a Model for Ḥāfiẓ-i Baṣīr’s Maẓhar al-ʿAjāʾib  7 The Question of Genre  8 Conclusion Note Index مظهر العجائب

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Book SynopsisGuy Aiken provides a critical appreciation of Quaker mystic Thomas Kelly (1893-1941) and his classic A Testament of Devotion (1941). This examination of Kelly’s life and devotional writings is largely viewed through an Augustinian lens; Augustine’s Confessions was a touchstone for Kelly after his mystical transformation in 1937-38. Aiken argues that Kelly’s vision of Quakerism transcended religious and historical boundaries, while still speaking directly, and prophetically, to mid-twentieth-century liberal Quakerism and Christianity in the United States. The volume treats, in turn, Kelly’s melding of liberal and evangelical theology, his prophetic call to his contemporaries, and his revival of an ancient ethic, before concluding with helpful suggestions for further research.Table of ContentsContents Abstract 1 Keywords  1 Introduction: Thomas Kelly, Augustinian Quaker  2 Theology: Kelly’s Melding of Liberalism and Evangelicalism  3 History: Kelly’s Challenge to the Social Gospel  4 Ethics: Kelly’s Revival of an Ancient Way of Living  5 Conclusion: Openings for Further Scholarship  6 Postscript  References  Archives

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Book SynopsisIn Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book’s translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Transliterations List of Abbreviations Glossary of Selected Sufi Terms Introduction PART ONE Section A: Setting the Scene Section B: The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word Section C: The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by the Male Sufis Section D: The Sufi Gaze: The Sufi Perception of Family and Familial Responsibilities Section E: The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maid Servants and Women of Ill-repute Section F: Women’s Presence in The Sufi Silsilas Section G: The Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and The Profane Section H: Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi PART TWO Section A. Narratives of Sufi Women According to the Time Period Section B: Biographical Notices of Sufi Women According to Their Specific Status Section C Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting their Shrines Section D: Sufi Women Identified by Names Only Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMystik und Romantik sind Gegenmodelle einer stets fremder werdenden Moderne. Die Romantik als eine Kulturepoche nimmt das überzeitliche religiöse Phänomen der Mystik in sich auf. Der vorliegende Band geht auf zahlreiche Beispiele ein, insbesondere auf die Rezeption Jacob Böhmes in der Romantik. Mysticism and Romanticism are counter-models of an ever stranger modernity. Romanticism as a cultural epoch absorbs the supra-temporal religious phenomenon of mysticism. This volume deals with numerous examples, specifically the reception of Jacob Böhme in Romanticism.Table of ContentsVorwort Abkürzungsverzeichnis Einleitung Teil 1 Mystik und Romantik 1 Wackenroder und die Mystik  Günther Bonheim 2 Friedrich Schlegels Beschäftigung mit der Mystik  Bärbel Frischmann 3 Friedrich Schlegels Mystik-Rezeption im Kontext seiner Idealismus-Kritik  Dorit Messlin 4 Friedrich Schlegel and the Mystical Kingdom of God  Asko Nivala 5 „ wie ein Kind, das heim will“: Clemens Brentano zwischen Erotik und Mystik  Peter Nickl 6 Von den Mythen Asiens zur christlichen Mystik: Der Weg des Joseph Görres  Monika Fink-Lang 7 Unheimliches: Satire und Mystik bei Joseph Görres  Thomas Isermann 8 “Never will I Forget Seeing Him” (Nie werde ich seinen Anblick vergessen): The Influence of Philipp Matthaeus Hahn on Schelling’s Philosophy  Andrés Quero-Sánchez 9 Mystik bei Franz von Baader (1765–1841)  Alberto Bonchino Teil 2 Jacob Böhme und die Romantik 10 Zur Typologie vorromantischer Böhme-Rezeption  Sibylle Rusterholz 11 Zitat und Inspiration: Böhme bei Tieck und Runge  Thomas Isermann 12 Die Aurora, die Europa: Novalis’ Böhme-Lektüre und seine religionsgeschichtliche Konstruktion  Günther Bonheim 13 Jacob Böhmes Aurora in der Morgenröte der Romantik  Steffen Dietzsch 14 „Ultra crepidam!“: Ein Schuster im Athenäum und frühromantische Nachtwachen in Erwartung der Morgenröte  Thomas Regehly 15 Über diejenigen, die eine Kerze ins Sonnenlicht halten: Böhmes Einfluss auf Blakes frühromantisches Werk The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)  Tobias Schlosser 16 Qualitative Dialektik: Hegels Differenzschrift und Jacob Böhme  Donata Schoeller 17 Hilflose Abstraktheit: Die Böhme-Rezeption Franz von Baaders und dessen Kritik an Schellings Idealismus  Andrés Quero-Sánchez Literatur Register

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Book SynopsisGloria Maité Hernández offers an engaging critical review of scholarly works on Spanish mystical literature during the twentieth and early twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. Bringing together for the first time an ample variety of sources, and letting the scholars’ own voices be heard, this study asks how their writings were influenced by their particular notions about mysticism and Spain’s relationship with the Orient. A thematic survey like this one illustrates how ideas are created and re-created throughout time, resulting in the production of a more diverse scholarship. Readers will be enriched with a renewed sense of disciplinary awareness.Table of ContentsThe Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature Through an Orientalist Lens  Gloria Maité Hernández Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Mysticism and Orientalism  2 The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature Pre-1942  3 Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: 1942 and the Next Two Decades  4 The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: The Turn of the Century  Conclusions: The Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature: Its Present and Future List of Works Cited General Bibliography

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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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Book SynopsisThe present volume focuses on Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246–after 1310), the first scholar to bring Ibn Ezra’s astrological work to the knowledge of Latin readers. The volume has two main objectives. The first is to offer as complete and panoramic an account as possible of Bate’s translational project. Therefore, this volume offers critical editions of all six of Bate’s complete translations of Ibn Ezra’s astrological writings. The second objective is to accompany Bate’s Latin translations with literal English translations and to offer a thorough collation of the Latin translation (with their English translations) against the Hebrew and French source texts. This is volume 2 of a two-volume set.

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Book SynopsisThe distinguished position of the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz attracted Sufis from across the Islamic world, making it the largest Sufi center of that era, with more than forty Sufi orders active during the Ottoman period. Most of the region’s many scholars were associated with Sufism and affiliated to these orders; their lives and Sufi activities more broadly were documented by one of their number, al-ʿUjaymī, in two texts. These texts, critically edited here for the first time, constitute some of the best evidence for the character of spiritual life in the Ḥijāz during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Al-ʿUjaymī’s Family  2 Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-ʿUjaymī, Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Ṣūfī (d. 1113/1702)  3 The Two Treatises Edited in This Volume  4 Conclusion Description of the Manuscripts  1 Khabāyā al-zawāyā  2 Risāla fī ṭuruq al-ṣūfiyya  3 Isbāl al-sitr al-jamīl ʿalā tarjamat al-ʿAbd al-dhalīl Explanation of Signs and Conventions Used in the Arabic Critical Edition and Apparatus Bibliography Index Arabic Section

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Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 What Spirituality Is? Problems with Defining Spirituality, and Its Origins  2 The Relationship between Spirituality and Religiousness  3 Faces of Spirituality  4 The Threefold Nature of Spirituality (TNS Model) – Empirical Investigation  5 Further Perspectives of Research  Epilogue  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage offre une analyse approfondie de l’œuvre pionnière consacrée par Louis Massignon (1883-1962) à la mystique musulmane. Il interroge sa vision de la réalité étudiée et en vient à énoncer la question de la subjectivité en sciences des religions. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pioneering work devoted by Louis Massignon (1883-1962) to Muslim mysticism. It questions his vision of the reality he studied and opens up the question of subjectivity in the study of religion.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste des figures Transcription des caractères arabes Sigles et abréviations Introduction  1 Le chercheur et l’ineffable  2 Une œuvre pionnière et controversée  3 Déplacer la frontière entre non-savoir et savoir  4 Jalons biographiques  5 Qu’est-ce que la mystique musulmane ?  6 Louis Massignon : orientaliste ou islamologue ?  7 Vers une compréhension plus juste 1 Le chercheur et son contexte  1 La mystique à l’aube du XXe siècle  2 Émergence de nouveaux champs disciplinaires  3 Internationalisation d’une communauté savante  4 Impact de l’expansion coloniale sur les études arabes et islamiques  5 Savant arabisant : une position médiane et délicate  6 Mouvements intellectuels et religieux à l’œuvre au sein du monde musulman 2 Une courbe de vie  1 Linéaments d’une vocation  2 D’une mission archéologique à l’anthropologie de la sainteté  3 Une relation passionnée au champ d’étude  4 Louis Massignon et les lettrés d’Iraq et de Syrie  5 Louis Massignon et l’Égypte  6 Louis Massignon et Ignác Goldziher  7 Louis Massignon et Henry Corbin 3 Terminologie, méthodologie  1 Comment définir la mystique musulmane ?  2 La méthode de Louis Massignon 4 Centralité de la référence coranique  1 La question de l’origine de la mystique musulmane  2 Louis Massignon et la question des origines  3 L’appropriation de l’idiome arabe par les premiers mystiques musulmans 5 Une certaine conception de la sainteté  1 Une posture chrétienne  2 Une lecture hagiographique des sources  3 La sainteté en islām  4 Al-Ḥallāj, un saint ʿīsawī  5 Signification de la mort d’al-Ḥallāj pour Louis Massignon  6 Une œuvre en faveur de la sainteté d’al-Ḥallāj 6 Une certaine conception de l’Union mystique  1 Épeler l’indicible …  2 Waḥdat al-wujūd et waḥdat al-shuhūd selon Louis Massignon  3 La mystique authentique, selon Louis Massignon est une mystique du dépouillement  4 Quête du vrai et quête de la Vérité Conclusion  1 Vers plus de justesse, vers plus de justice Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIslamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.Trade ReviewFrom the readers' reports: "This is a well-researched and well-written book that is a pleasure to read. It has the potential to reshape the field of South Asian art by exploring the central, affective role of images in devotional practices in the early modern era, and Islamic art, as well as speak to audiences interested in South Asian and Islamic literature and culture more broadly." Holly Shaffer, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Brown University "The virtue of the book lies not just in the originality of its approach, but in the persuasiveness of its arguments and the solidity of its evidence as well. It is a major piece of scholarship that marshals an impressive range of material." Kavita Singh, formerly Professor of Art History, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements IX List of Illustrations XIII Note on Translation and Transliteration XXVI Introduction: The Need for an Ontology of Art  1 What Is Islamic Ontology?  2 Can “Indian Painting” Be Islamic Painting?  3 Ṣūrat and Maʿnī: Islam and Islam  4 Presence  5 Organization of the Book 1 Viewing the Face of a God’s Friend: Conceptual and Literary Premises  1 Sufism  2 Taẕkira Literature  3 Looking at the Face of ʿAli Is Worship 2 Sufi in the Garb of a Yogi: Visual and Literary Articulations of Sanctity  1 The Yogi in Medieval Sufi Romances  2 Yogis in Princely Albums 3 Allegories, Symbols, and the “Marvelous Magic” of Imperial Mughal Painting  1 Akbar: The Saint-King  2 Jahangir: The King of Universal Manifestation  3 Shah Jahan and the Army of Prayer 4 “I Saw My Lord in the Form of a Beardless Youth”  1 In the Company of Dervishes  2 The Princely Youth, Alone  3 Interpreting the Dara Shikoh Album  4 Persianate Antecedents for the Dara Shikoh Album 5 The Face of Shah … the Face of God  1 Jahanara Begum: Sufi Patron and Practitioner 6 Sacred Viewing: Miraculous Gatherings and Iconic Portraits  1 The Majlis Paintings  2 An Iconography of Devotion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe present “turn to religion” has also meant a rekindled interest in transcendence, a concept once deemed a relic of a metaphysical past. This volume approaches transcendence from a particular perspective: that of language and literature seen as a matrix of expression of transcendence and its interplay of immanence. The essays in this volume probe the poetic and literary devices through which transcendence has been solicited, evoked, and generated. This has also meant revisiting the long Christian tradition, not simply to rehabilitate it but as an indispensable source for present writing and thinking.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Elisa Heinämäki, P.M. Mehtonen, and Antti Salminen: Literary Beyonds: An Introduction Part I: Poetics of Mysticism Daniel Acke: Non‐Religious Mysticism: Between Immanence and Transcendence Antti Salminen: Writing Through the Transcendence: On Paul Celan’s Mysticism Kent L. Brintnall: Transcribing Desire: Mystical Theology in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts Part II: Transcendence and Language Shira Wolosky: Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas, Ricoeur, Frost William Franke: Language and Transcendence in Dante’s Paradiso Part III: Tropes of Transcendences Elisa Heinämäki: The Original Analogy: Mediating Transcendence in The Man Without Qualities Jarkko Toikkanen: Transcendental Puppets: Kant and Kleist Hanna Mäkelä: Horizontal Rivalry, Vertical Transcendence: Identity and Idolatry in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Index of Names Index of Subjects Contributors

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