Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism: The World of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and his Contemporaries - Rilegato

Sviri, Sara

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ISBN 10: 0415302838 ISBN 13: 9780415302838

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2008

Riassunto

This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the 8th –10th centuries, with special attention to 9th c. mystics, such as al-Tustarī, al-Muḥāsibī, al-Kharrāz, al-Junayd and, in particular, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. Unlike other studies dealing with the so-called ‘Formative Period’, this book focuses on the extant writings of early mystics rather than on the later Sufi compilations.

These early mystics articulated what would become a hallmark of Islamic mysticism: a system built around the psychological tension between the self (nafs) and the heart (qalb) and how to overcome it. Through their writings, already at this early phase, the versatility, fluidity and maturity of Islamic mysticism become apparent. This exploration thus reveals that mysticism in Islam emerged earlier than customarily acknowledged, long before Islamic mysticism became generically known as Sufism.

The central figure of this book is al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, whose teaching and inner world focus on themes such as polarity, the training of the self, the opening of the heart, the Friends of God (al-awliyāʾ), dreams and visions, divine language, mystical exegesis and more.

This monograph thus offers a fuller picture than hitherto presented of the versatility of themes, processes, images, practices, terminology and thought models during this early period. The volume will be a key resource for scholars and students interested in the study of religion, Sufi studies, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sara Sviri is Professor Emerita at the Department of Arabic and the Department of Comparative Religions of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She had also taught at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and at The Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. Her fields of study include Islamic mysticism, mystical philosophy, comparative aspects of early Islam, the formative period of Islamic mysticism, Medieval Jewish mysticism, and the mystical wisdom of Ibn Arabi. Her book The Taste of Hidden Things: Images on the Sufi Path was published in 1997. Her comprehensive Sufi Anthology was published in Hebrew in 2008. The Arabic version of the Anthology came out in Beirut by Manshūrāt al-jamal (2016).

Contenuti:

An Introductory Overview  1. Asceticism and Mysticism: Anti-Zuhdi Trends in Early Sufism  2. The Self and its Transformation  3. Words of Power and the Power of Words  4. Does Allah Have a Feminine Side?  5. Ahwal wa-maqamat Sufi Vocabulary in the Making  6. Binaric Models in the Works of Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi  7. 'Coincidence of Opposites' in Islamic Mysticism  8. Al-Haqq - A Divine Name in the Making  9. 'Does God Pray?'  10. The Myrtle and the Holy Man  11. Malamatiyya, Sufiyya and other Mystics  12. The Formation of the Mystical Schools in Khurasan and the Emergence of the Sufi Compilations.  Appendix 1:  Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi (9th Century) and Ibn al-'Arabi (d.1240).  Appendix 2: Translation of Sections from Risalat Al-Malamatiyya and from the Tirmidhi Corpus

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415302838
• ISBN 13: 9780415302838
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 364