Perspectives on early Islamic mysticism : the world of al-Hak'm al-Tirmidh and his contemporaries /: the world of al-Hak'm al-Tirmidh and his contemporaries. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sara Sviri.
• Authors: Sviri, Sara
• Contents: Introduction: Sweetness and Inner Struggle Part I Asceticism and Mysticism (zuhd and taṣawwuf ) 1. ‘Sufism’: Reconsidering terms, definitions and processes. ; 2. Zuhd in Islamic Mysticism: Conduct and Attitude. 3. "Wa-rahbāniyyatan ibtadaʿūhā ": Monasticism and Asceticism False and Sincere. P art II Schools and Teachers 4. Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and the Malāmatī s of Nīshāpūr. 5. Teachers and Disciples in Baghdad and Nīshāpūr. 6. Facing Hostility in Transoxiana: Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl. Appendix: The Letters Letters of Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Tirmidhī to Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl Part III Polarity 7. "Between Fear and Hope": Coincidence of Opposites in Islamic Mysticism Appendix 8. The Self (nafs ) and Her Transformation. 9. Faces of al-Ḥaqq : The Name and the Named. Part IV The Spiritual Hierarchy 10. Wilāya : Contemplating Friendship with God. 11. Myrtle and Holy Men: Echoes of Ancient Traditions in a Woman’s Dream. Part V Language and Hermeneutics 12. The Power of Words: Mystical Linguistics in al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. 13. "The Countless Faces of Understanding ": Istinbāṭ, Listening and Exegesis. Bibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 297.4; Mysticism -- Islam
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134413171
• Related ISBNs: 9781134413188; 9781134413133; 9780203022726
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