The Gardens of the Gnostics: Bustān Al-'Ārifīn

The Gardens of the Gnostics: Bustān Al-'Ārifīn
Author: YAY AB SHARAF. AN-NAWAW
Publisher: Diwan Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781908892621

Imam an-Nawawi's work on classical tasawwuf based on the Qur'an, the Sunnah and explicating sound hadith, most of them from his own collection of Forty, as well as many quotes from the great awliyā' and people of knowledge.

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition
Author: Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1933316667

How has fundamentalism betrayed the true spirit of Islam? This fully revised and expanded edition of the critically acclaimed book provides answers to this question and contains: a new essay on the role of women in Islam; an updated chapter containing insights into the true nature of the jih three fully revised chapters that bring the discussion up-to-date with the current global situation; a revised introduction. Book jacket.

Bustan Al-Salatin

Bustan Al-Salatin
Author: Jelani Harun
Publisher: Khairur Rahim Ahmad Hilme
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2009
Genre: Aceh (Indonesia)
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries

Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries
Author: Mulla Ali B Sultan Muhammad Al-Qari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2014-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780992633516

The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports was written over four hundred years ago by a respected and prolific Meccan savant of Afghan origin. Mulla Ali al-Qari (d. 1014/1605) was thoroughly familiar with the large body of critical literature on hadith forgery, which he refined and reordered alphabetically into 625 entries. Al-Qari's last work, it is the only catalogue of forgeries with both a transmission-based and content-based critique, illustrating the author's vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith methodology and his classic Hanafi and Sufi views. The translator has added his own study of the forgery and "famous hadith" genres, the life and works of the author, extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices. A total of 3,000 reports are documented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridical forgeries, Shia forgeries, Sufi forgeries, racial forgeries, misogynistic forgeries, food forgeries, "Israelite" forgeries, medical forgeries, sex forgeries, spurious books, spurious grave-spots and more. This is the first and long overdue authentic reference work on hadith forgeries in English. 1. Hadith-Criticism, interpretation, etc.-Early works to 1800. 2. Hadith-Forgeries. I. Haddad, Gibril Fouad, 1960- . II. Title. III. Title: Qari, The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Reports. IV. Title: Qari, The Major Book of Forgeries. V. Title: Qari, al-Mawdu'at al-kubra. English.

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism
Author: Carl W. Ernst
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780873959179

This is the first in-depth study in English of the import and impact of ecstatic utterances (shathiyat) in classical Islamic mysticism. It makes available an important body of mystical aphorisms and reveals not only the significance of these sayings in the Sufi tradition, but also explains their controversial impact on Islamic law and society. This study descrives the development and interpretation of shathiyat in classical Sufism and analyzes the principal themes and rhetorical styles of these sayings, using as a basis the authoritative Commentary on Ecstatic Sayings by Ruzbihan Baqli of Shiraz. The special topic of mystical faith and infidelity receives particular emphasis as a type of ecstatic expression that self-reflectively meditates on the inadequacy of language to describe mystical experience. The social impact of ecstatic sayings is clarified by an analysis of the political causes of Sufi heresy trials (Nuri, Hallaj, and 'Ayn al-Qudat) and the later elaboration of Sufi martyrologies. This study also examines the attitudes of Islamic legal scholars toward shathiyat, and concludes with a comparison of Sufi ecstatic expressions with other types of inspired speech.

Sufi Aesthetics

Sufi Aesthetics
Author: Cyrus Ali Zargar
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611171830

Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts, Cyrus Ali Zargar explores the theoretical and poetic pronouncements of two major Muslim mystics, Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240) and Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi (d. 1289), under the premise that behind any literary tradition exist organic aesthetic values. The complex assertions of these Sufis appear not as abstract theory, but as a way of seeing all things, including the sensory world. The Sufi masters, Zargar asserts, shared an aesthetic vision quite different from those who have often studied them. Sufism's foremost theoretician, Ibn 'Arabi, is presented from a neglected perspective as a poet, aesthete, and lover of the human form. Ibn 'Arabi in fact proclaimed a view of human beauty markedly similar to that of many mystics from a Persian contemplative school of thought, the "School of Passionate Love," which would later find its epitome in 'Iraqi, one of Persian literature's most celebrated poet-saints. Through this aesthetic approach, this comparative study overturns assumptions made not only about Sufism and classical Arabic and Persian poetry, but also other uses of erotic imagery in Muslim approaches to sexuality, the human body, and the paradise of the afterlife described in the Qur'an.