Islamic thought and the art of translation : texts and studies in honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata / edited by Mohammed Rustom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rustom, Mohammed, editor.

Chittick, William C., honoree.

Murata, Sachiko, 1943- honoree.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; 0929-2403 v. 202.

Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 202

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism.

Islamic philosophy.

Arabic language--Translating into English.

Arabic language.

Persian language--Translating into English.

Persian language.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 558 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, and in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically astute and analytically sound expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of these disciplines (in Arabic, Persian, and Chinese), demonstrating just how important the functions of philology and cross-cultural translation are when studying pre-modern cultures and civilizations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Contributors

Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata

Part I. Sufism in Persianate Contexts: 1. ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian / Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom

2. The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī / Kazuyo Murata

3. Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil / Ali Karjoo-Ravary

4. Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light / Shankar Nair

5. Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn's Makhzan-i ʻirfān / Maria Massi Dakake

Part II. The Akbarian Tradition: 6. Some Notes on Ibn ʻArabī's Correlative Prophetology / Gregory Vandamme

7. Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) / Alireza Pharaa

8. Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī's Nafaḥāt / Justin Cancelliere

9. Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʻArabī's Lettrist Cosmogony / Matthew Melvin-Koushki

10. Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light / Marlene DuBois

11. Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God's Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt) / Naser Dumairieh

12. The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim / Omar Edaibat

13. A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya) / Oludamini Ogunnaike

Part III. Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology: 14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʻili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw / Khalil Andani

15. The Necessity of the Return (al-maʻād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6-7 / Davlat Dadikhuda

16. Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi's Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies / Rosabel Ansari

17. Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood / Muhammad U. Faruque

18. Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context / Sayeh Meisami

19. Asad Allāh Qazwīnī's Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa / Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari

Part IV. Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation: 20. Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation / Amer Latif

21. Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission / Mukhtar H. Ali

22. Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative / Laury Silvers

23. The Tao of maʻrifa: Adam's Encounter with Hell in Paradise / Mohammed Mehdi Ali

24. A Supplication for God's Mercy on the Day of ʻArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʻī al-Muʼayyad al-Shīrāzī / Tahera Qutbuddin

25. Made in God's Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari / Yousef Casewit

26. Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher / Atif Khalil

Index of Names and Terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Islamic thought and the art of translation

ISBN:

9789004529021

9004529020

OCLC:

1347259249

Publisher Number:

99993428615

40031632738