Sufism and theology / edited by Ayman Shihadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shihadeh, Ayman, Author.

Contributor:

Shihadeh, Ayman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Theology.

Sufism.

Sufism--Doctrines.

Mysticism--Islam.

Mysticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the relationship between the Sufi and theological currents in Islamic history, underscoring aspects of tension and interaction between them.

Contents:

Mystical theology and the traditionalist hermeneutics of Maybudī's Kashf al-Asrār / Annabel Keeler

The all-comprehensive circle (al-Iḥāṭa) : soul, intellect, and the oneness of existence in the doctrine of Ibn Sabʹīn / Vincent J. Cornell

One aspect of the Akbarian turn in Shīʹī theology / Robert Wisnovsky

Sufism and theology in the confessions of Ṣāʼin al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 830/1437) / Leonard Lewisohn

A Sufi theology fit for a Shīʹī king : the Gawhar-i Murād of ʻAbd al-Razzāq Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661-2) / Sajjad Rizvi

The mystic and the sceptic in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / Ayman Shihadeh

Ibn Taymiyya's commentary on the Creed of al-Ḥallāj / Yahya Michot

Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534) on Ibn ʻArabī's hagiology / Tim Winter

Scriptural Sufism and scriptural anti-Sufism : theology and mysticism among the Shīʻʻī Akhbāriyya / Robert Gleave

Reconciling Sufism with theology : Abū l-Wafā al-Taftāzānī and the construct of 'al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmi' in modern Egypt / Andreas Christmann.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5312-0

0-7486-3134-8

OCLC:

795695172