Classical Persian Sufism: from its origins to Rumi

Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications

1993

xl, 666 p.

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 614-640) and index.

9780933546516

Introduction. The rise and development of Persian Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Literature & historical beginnings. An Indo-Persian perspective on the significance of early Persian Sufi Masters / Bruce B. Lawrence ; Persian contributions to Sufi literature in Arabic / Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani -- Sufi Masters & schōols. Abu'l-Husayn al-Nuri : "Qibla of the lights" / Annemarie Schimmel ; Hallaj and the Baghdad school of Sufism / Herbert Mason ; Abu S'id ibn Abi'l-Khayr and the school of Khurasan / Terry Graham ; Historical conditions of Persian Sufism during the Seljuk period / Hamid Dabashi ; Early Sufism in eastern Anatolia / Ahmet T. Karamustafa -- Metaphysics & hermeneutics. Ideas of time in Persian Sufism / Gerhard Böwering ; Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's esoteric exegesis of the Koran / Nicholas Heer --^The significance of Suhrawardi's Persian Sufi writings in the philosophy of illumination / Mehdi Aminrazavi ; In quest of annihilation : imaginalization and mystical death in the Tamhidat of 'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadhani / Leonard Lewisohn -- Literature & poetry. The myth of Adam's fall in Ahmad Sam'ani's Rawh al-arwah / William C. Chittick ; Comparative notes on Sana'i and Attar / J. T. P. de Bruijn ; The Hundred grounds of Abdullah Ansari of Herat (d. 448/1056) : the earliest mnemonic Sufi manual in Persian / A. G. Ravan Farhadi ; The concept of knowledge in Rumi's Mathnawi / Muhammad Este'lami ; Rumi and Hikmat : towards a reading of Sabziwari's commentary on the Mathnawi / John Cooper --^Divine love, sainthood, spiritual disciplines & stations. The stages of love in early Persian Sufism, from Rabi'a to Ruzbihan / Carl W. Ernst ; "The breath of felicity" : Adab, Ahwal, Maqamat and Abu Najib al-Suhrawardi / Ian Richard Netton ; The concept of Wilaya in early Sufism / Bernd Radtke ; Contemplative disciplines in early Persian Sufism / Muhammad Isa Waley -- Spiritual chivalry & Malamati spirituality. Chivalry and early Persian Sufism / Muhammad Ja'far Mahjub ; Hakim Tirmidhi and the Malamati movement in early Sufism / Sara Sviri.

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