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Book SynopsisIslamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically sound and analytically rigorous expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese texts in these disciplines, demonstrating just how important careful reading and responsible translation methods are to the study of pre-modern worldviews. Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.
Trade Review"This massive book is a fitting tribute to William Chittick and Sachiko Murata, and the papers contained therein are all written in the best traditions of modern, academic, critical textual, and philological scholarship." – Reviewer A "The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." – Reviewer B
Table of ContentsForeword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts 1 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom 2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī Kazuyo Murata 3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil Ali Karjoo-Ravary 4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light Shankar Nair 5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn’s Makhzan-i ʿirfān Maria Massi Dakake Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition 6 Some Notes on Ibn ʿArabī’s Correlative Prophetology Gregory Vandamme 7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) Alireza Pharaa 8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī’s Nafaḥāt Justin Cancelliere 9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʿArabī’s Lettrist Cosmogony Matthew Melvin-Koushki 10 Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light Marlene DuBois 11 Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God’s Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt) Naser Dumairieh 12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim Omar Edaibat 13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa’s Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya) Oludamini Ogunnaike Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology 14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʿili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw Khalil Andani 15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maʿād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6–7 Davlat Dadikhuda 16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi’s Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies Rosabel Ansari 17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood Muhammad U. Faruque 18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context Sayeh Meisami 19 Asad Allāh Qazwīnī’s Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation 20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation Amer Latif 21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission Mukhtar H. Ali 22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative Laury Silvers 23 The Tao of maʿrifa: Adam’s Encounter with Hell in Paradise Mohammed Mehdi Ali 24 A Supplication for God’s Mercy on the Day of ʿArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʿī al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī Tahera Qutbuddin 25 Made in God’s Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari Yousef Casewit 26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher Atif Khalil Index of Names and Terms
