The Life, Personality and Writings of al-Junayd : A Study of the Third/Ninth Century Mystic

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻAbd al-Qādir, ʻAlī Ḥasan.

Contributor:

ʻAbd al-Qādir, ʻAlī Ḥasan, Contributor.

Series:

Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Islam.

Mysticism--Islam.

Mysticism.

Local Subjects:

Islam.

Mysticism--Islam.

Mysticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Gibb Memorial Trust, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains an edition and translation of the extant epistles of Ab? l-Q?sim b. Mu?ammad al-Junayd. Al-Junayd was an influential holy man and spiritual thinker who lived in Baghdad in the ninth century. His writings are marked with many of the features of the tradition that later became known as Ta?awwuf, Islamic Mysticism. Later Sufis acknowledged him as shaykh al-mash?yikh, the Sheikh among Sheikhs, and as t?w?s al-fuqar??, the Peacock among the Men of Poverty.Al-Junayd's epistles, addressed to private individuals, are often based upon interpretations of key passages from the Qur??n

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART I THE LIFE, PERSONALITY AND WRITINGS OF AL-]UNAYD; CHAPTER I AL-Junayd''s Early Life and Education; CHAPTER II AL-Junayd''s Mystical Sources; CHAPTER III The Mystical School of Baghdād; CHAPTER IV The Personality of Al-Junayd; CHAPTER V The Writings of Al-Junayd; PART II THE DOCTRINE OF AL-JUNAYD; CHAPTER VI The Doctrine of Unification; CHAPTER VII The Theory of Mithāq; CHAPTER VIII The Theory of Fanā''; CHAPTER IX The Doctrine of Sobriety, Sạhẉ; CHAPTER X The Knowledge of God; CHAPTER XI Al-Junayd and Plotinus; BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART III THE RASA''IL OF AL-JUNAYDTRANSLATION; TEXT

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ISBN:

9781909724495

1909724491

9781909724471

1909724475

OCLC:

890982260