Sanctity and mysticism in medieval Egypt : the Wafa Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn Arabi / Richard J.A. McGregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGregor, Richard J. A.

Series:

SUNY series in Islam

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wafā, Muḥammad, 1302 or 1303-1363.

Wafā, Muḥammad.

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.

Ibn al-ʻArabī.

Sufism--Egypt--History.

Sufism.

Muslim saints--Egypt--History.

Muslim saints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Wafa's, a complete mystical worldview unfolds, one with a distinct doctrine of sainthood and a novel understanding of the apocalypse. Using almost entirely unedited manuscript sources, author Richard J.A. McGregor shows in detail how Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa' drew on earlier philosophical and gnostic currents to construct their own mystical theories and notes their debt to the Sufi order of the Shadhiliyya, the mystic al-Tirmidhi, and the great Sufi thinker Ibn 'Arabi. Notably, although located firmly within the Sunni tradition, the Wafa's felt free to draw on Shi'ite ideas for the construction of their own theory of the final great saint."--Jacket

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Tirmidhī, Ibn ͑Arabī, and Others on Sanctity

The Early Shādhiliyya and Sanctity

The Wafā’iyya in Time and Space

The Writings of the Wafā’s

Sanctity and Muḥammad Wafā’

Sanctity according to ͑Alī Wafā’

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780791460122

0791460126

9780791485477

0791485471

OCLC:

62735023