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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leonard Lewisohn |
| ISBN: | 0933546459 9780933546455 0933546475 9780933546479 |
| OCLC Number: | 26861674 |
| Description: | xiv, 434 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Javad Nurbakhsh -- Introduction : Persian Sufi literature : its spiritual and cultural significance / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Overview : Iranian Islam and Persianate Sufism / Leonard Lewisohn -- Yūsuf in Mawlānā Rumi's poetry / Annemarie Schimmel -- Ecstasy and order : two structural principles in the Ghazal poetry of Jalāl al-Dı̄n Rumi / Johann Christoph Bürgel -- The Qalandariyyāt in Persian mystical poetry, from Sanāʼı̄ onwards / J.T.P. De Bruijn -- The Hurūfı̄ legacy of Fadlullāh of Astarābad / H.T. Norris -- Diverse tastes in spiritual life : textual play in the diffusion of Rumi's order / Victoria Holbrook -- Sayyid ʻAlı̄ Hamadānı̄ and Kubrawı̄ hagiographical traditions / Devin DeWeese -- Authority and miraculous behavior : reflections on Karāmaāt stories of Khwāja ʻUbaydullaāh Ahrār / Jo-Ann Gross -- Shāh Niʻmatullāh Walı̄ : founder of the Niʻmatullaāhı̄ Sufi order / Terry Graham -- Sufism in Saʻdi, and Saʻdi on Sufism / Homa Katouzian -- Spectrums of Islamic thought : Saʻid al-Dı̄n Farghānı̄ on the implications of oneness and manyness / William C. Chittick -- The Futūhāt Makkiyya and its commentators : some unresolved enigmas / Michel Chodkiewicz -- The Sophianic feminine in the work of Ibn ʻArabı̄ and Rumi / R.J.W. Austin -- The neoplatonic substrate of Suhrawardı̄'s philosophy of illumination : Falsafa as Tasawwuf / Ian Richard Netton -- The dawning places of the lights of certainty in the divine secrets connected with the commander of the faithful by Rajab Bursı̄ / Todd Lawson -- What is Sufi music? / Jean During -- A Kubrawı̄ manual on Sufism : the Fusūs al-ādāb of Yahyā Bākharzı̄ / Muhammad Isa Waley -- The importance of the spiritual guide in the Naqshbandı̄ Order / Johan Ter Haar -- A Sufi scientist of the thirteenth century : the mystical ideas and practices of Qutb al-Dı̄n Shı̄razı̄/ John T. Walbridge -- "Mysteries of Marriage" : notes on a Sufi text / Sachiko Murata -- The symbolism of birds and flight in the writing of Rūzbihān Baqlı̄ / Carl W. Ernst -- ʻAbd al-Rahman Christı̄ and the Bhagavadgita : 'Unity of religion' theory in practice / Roderic Vassie -- The transcendental unity of polytheism and monotheism in the Sufism of the Shabistarı̄ / Leonard Lewisohn. |
| Other Titles: | Legacy of medieval Persian Sufism. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Leonard Lewisohn ; foreword by Javad Nurbaksh ; introduction by S.H. Nasr. |
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