A Luminous Intellect : Essays in Honor of Hamid Algar / edited by Amina Inloes and Alan Godlas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Godlas, Alan, editor.

Inloes, Amina, editor.

Series:

Islamic History and Civilization ; 225.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Islamic History and Civilization ; 225

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Essays in Honor of Hamid Algar

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Luminous Intellect—a nod to the expression al-ʿaql al-munawwar , used by the Persian poet Jāmī—is a tribute to the vast scholarly output of one of the pioneers of Islamic studies, Hamid Algar. In an era of rapid cultural, intellectual, and political change, Algar’s scholarship brought fresh perspectives to the study of Shiʿism, Sufism, and Islamic intellectual history, bridging worlds of language, thought, and spirituality and combining acute analyses of contemporary events with a respect for tradition. This festschrift features essays by leading scholars who engage with the themes of Algar’s intellectual legacy. From Shiʿi theology and Qur’anic exegesis, to the poetics of Ḥāfiẓ and the metaphysics of Ibn ʿArabī; from the untold stories of Naqshbandī shaykhs and the evolution of Islamic knowledge in Qom, to the early history of Islam and Arabic literature in the Americas, these chapters offer both tribute and fresh scholarship. At once a celebration and a scholarly contribution in its own right, A Luminous Intellect is a unique volume featuring original, innovative pieces for anyone interested in the living legacy of Islamic thought.

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Series Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎A Luminous Intellect: The Scholarly Legacy of Hamid Algar (1940-) (Inloes)

‎Hamid Algar: A Global Itinerary (Rasiah)

‎Publications by Hamid Algar

‎Notes on Contributors

‎Part 1. Shiʿism

‎Chapter 1. From Tradition to Reason: The Evolution and Development of Early Shiʿi Exegesis (Takim)

‎Chapter 2. The Nahj al-balāgha before and after Canonization: From Literary Masterpiece to Islamist Manifesto (Medoff)

‎Chapter 3. A Critical Comparison of Conceptions of Tawḥīd in Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī's al-Kāfī and Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj's Kitāb al-ṭawāsīn (Masterton)

‎Chapter 4. Occult Curios in Twelver Shiʿi Ḥadīth (Inloes)

‎Part 2. Literature

‎Chapter 5. Aesthetics and Spirituality in the Poetry of al-Shushtarī (Abou-Bakr)

‎Chapter 6. Bākikhānov and Ākhundzāda and the Literary Milieu of Tiflis (Javadi)

‎Chapter 7. Arabic Literature in America: Sufi Poems Quoted by Omar ibn Said (Ernst)

‎Part 3. Sufism

‎Chapter 8. "Eyes on the Chosen One, Breathing with God": The Teachings of Abū'l-Ḥasan Kharaqānī (Safi)

‎Chapter 9. Narrativity in the Poetry of Ḥāfiẓ (Zargar)

‎Chapter 10. Ibn ʿArabī and Ḥamūya on the Concept of Waḥda: A Glimpse (Mesbahi)

‎Chapter 11. Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and His Legacy in the Riyāḍ al-awliyā: A Retrospective on the Kubrawī Silsila from 16th-Century Central Asia (DeWeese)

‎Chapter 12. The Category of Uwaysī Sufi according to Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (Hermansen)

‎Chapter 13. Muḥammad Jān: An Important Naqshbandī Shaykh of Mecca in the 19th Century (Tosun)

‎Chapter 14. A Territorial Oil Lamp: The Zaynī/Ḳarāmānī Ascendancy in the Sufi Landscape of Meḥmed II's Istanbul (Karataş).

‎Chapter 15. Tāj al-Dīn b. Zakariyyā (d. 1050/1640) and His Risāla fī sulūk al-ṭarīqat al-Naqshbandiyya (al-Tājiyya) (Qureshi)

‎Part 4. Knowledge and Wisdom

‎Chapter 16. Notes on Classifying the Disciplines in Islam: Configurations of Knowledge in Qom (Rasiah)

‎Chapter 17. Wisdom as the Sublime Measure: A New Epistemology of Ḥikma (Ali)

‎Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-74910-1

9789004749108

OCLC:

1559920274

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004749108 DOI