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Book SynopsisThis is an authoritative reference for the field, edited by two of its most prominent scholars. The essays explain the historical role of spirituality from the founding of Islam, to the rise of Sufism, through to present day concerns.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
General Introduction xi
Vincent J. Cornell and Bruce B. Lawrence
Part I Expressive Dimensions of Islamic Spirituality
Introduction to Part I
Vincent J. Cornell
IA The Spirituality of Words and Letters
1 The Spirituality of the Qurʾān 23
Bruce B. Lawrence
2 The Spirituality of Hadith 44
Abbas Barzegar
3 The Spirituality of Invocations and Litanies in Islam 61
Kenneth Lee Honerkamp
4 The Many Spirits of the Islamic Past 74
Shahzad Bashir Copyrighted Material
5 Translating Sainthood in Islamic Hagiography 91
Vincent J. Cornell
IB The Spirituality of Places and Spaces
6 The Spiritual Meaning of Mecca, the Ka‘ba, and the Ḥajj 113
Gordon D. Newby
7 The Spiritual Meaning of Medina 130
Daoud Stephen Casewit
8 Jerusalem in Islamic Spirituality 147
Brannon Wheeler
9 The Spirituality of the Sufi Shrine 165
Carl W. Ernst
IC The Spirituality of People and Human Relations
10 The Spiritual Meaning of Muḥammad and the Prophets of Islam 183
Ali A. Allawi
11 The Spiritual Meaning of Devotion to the Shī‘ī Imams 202
Abdulaziz Sachedina
12 Spirituality and Gender in Islam 217
Sa‘diyya Shaikh
13 Spirituality and Social Justice in Islam 234
Mustafa Gokhan Sahin
Part II Performative Dimensions of Islamic Spirituality
Introduction to Part II
Bruce B. Lawrence
IIA Devotional Practices in Islam
14 The Spirituality of Prayer in Islam 263
Hugh Talat Halman
15 The Spirituality of Qurʾān Recitation 277
Pieternella van Doorn-Harder
16 Ascetic Spirituality in Islam 297
Rkia Elaroui Cornell
17 The Spirituality of the Sufi Path 316
William C. Chittick
IIB Spirituality in Literature, Poetry, and the Visual Arts
18 Narrating Transcendence in the Modern Novel 333
miriam cooke
19 The Spirituality of Arab Islamic Poetry 352
Muhsin al-Musawi
20 The Spirituality of Persian Islamic Poetry 372
Franklin D. Lewis
21 Islamic Spirituality in English Translation 395
Michael Beard
22 Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts 412
Stefan Sperl
IIC Spirituality in Music, Song, and Cinema
23 Spirituality in Art Musics of the Islamic World 435
Ali Jihad Racy
24 The Spirituality of Qawwali: Lyrics and Ritual in the Sufi Music of South Asia 454
Scott Kugle
25 One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality 476
Negar Mottahedeh
IID Islamic Spirituality in the Anthropocene Age
26 Islamic Spirituality and the Internet 497
Gary R. Bunt
27 The Islamic Spirituality of HipHop 515
Michael Muhammad Knight
28 Ibn Taymiyya and the Case for a Salafism of Mercy 531
Yahya M. Michot
Index 545
