The Sufi and the friar : a mystical encounter of two men of God in the abode of Islam / Minlib Dallh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dallh, Minlib, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beaurecueil, Serge de, 1917-2005.

Beaurecueil, Serge de.

Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1006-1089.

Anṣārī al-Harawī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad.

Islam--Influence.

Islam.

Dār al-Islām.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

This book explores the profound spiritual encounter between Serge de Beaurecueil (1917-2005), a twentieth-century French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-century Hanbali Sufi master Khwaja 'Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006-1089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the foremost expert on the life and thought of Ansari. His mystical conversation and scholarly engagement with Ansari, his experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the religious other. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 1

I The Abode of Islam (dar al Islam) 3

II The Religious Other in the Postmodern World 6

Chapter 1 Serge de Beaurecueil, OP (1917-2005): A Life Curve 17

I A Wounded Privilege 18

II Le Saulchoir: A Rebirth of Dominican Scholarship 24

III The French Dominican Friars in Cairo 32

IV At the IDEO 37

Chapter 2 De Beaurecueil: Heeding Ansari's Call 43

I A Journey to Afghanistan, a Promised Land 43

II Born Under the Ghaznavi Rule (977-1186) 50

III Ansari: A Controversial Sufi Master (or Shaykh) 52

Chapter 3 De Beaurecueil: A Premier Scholar of Ansari's Works 69

I The Corpus Attributed to Ansari 70

II The Munajat or Cris du Coeur 89

Chapter 4 De Beaurecueil's Pastoral Mysticism in Kabul 99

I In the Footsteps of Jesus: Charles de Foucauld and de Beaurecueil 101

II A Priest of Non-Christians 113

III My Children of Kabul 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dallh, Minlib, 1968- author. Sufi and the friar

ISBN:

9781438466170

143846617X

OCLC:

989518781