Title The mystics of al-Andalus : Ibn Barrājan and Islamic thought in the twelfth century / Yousef Casewit

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. Contents Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Ibn Barrajān at the Forefront of the Muʿtabirūn Tradition; Literature Review; Overview of Chapters; The Historical Context: The Rise and Demise of the al-Murābiṭūn Dynasty; 1 The Beginnings of a Mystical Discourse in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Mālikism, and the Politics of an Epistemological Debate; Introduction; I Renunciation; The Early Umayyad Period; Retreaters from the Political Sphere; The Late Emirate and Early Caliphate Period The Renunciant Tradition in SevilleII Ibn Masarra: The First Andalusī Muʿtabir; III Politicized Epistemological Debates; Polemics Over the "Acquisition of Prophecy" and "Miracles of Saints"; Was There an Uṣūl Controversy in al-Andalus?; The Al-Murābiṭūn State-Jurist Entente; The Iḥyāʼ Controversy; 2 The Rise of the Andalusī Muʿtabirūn: The Influence of Ghazālī, Markers of the Muʿtabirūn Tradition, and the Onset of Institutional Sufism; Introduction; I Ghazālī's Intellectual Influence During the Formative Period of Andalusī Mysticism; Ibn Barrajān; Ibn al-ʿArīf; Ibn Qasī II Were Ibn Barrajān, Ibn al-ʿArīf, and Ibn Qasī "Sufis"?Was Renunciation a Precursor of Sufism?; III The Onset of Institutional Sufism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus; Ibn Tūmart; Abū Madyan: "The Junayd of the West"; Tādilī's Sufi Hagiography: al-Tashawwuf; 3 The Life of a Contemplative: Ibn Barrajān's Educational Formation, Spiritual Practices, Political Views, and Decease; Introduction; I Early Years, Educational Training; His Nisba, Kunya, Ism, Laqab; His Brother and "Grandson"; Educational Formation; The religious sciences and the "sciences of the ancients" (ʿulūm al-awāʼil) His attitude toward jurisprudence (fiqh) and legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh)II His Students and Disciples; III Eschewing the Sultan (inqibāḍ ʿan al-sulṭān), Political Views, and Decease; Practice of Inqibāḍ; Methodical Practice of Iʿtibār; Practice of Dhikr; Political Views; The Imāmate; Jihād; End-times; Summoning of Ibn al-ʿArīf, Mayūrqī, and Ibn Barrajān to Marrakesh; Ibn al-ʿArīf's Death; Abū Bakr b. al-Mayūrqī's Death; Ibn Barrajān's Death; 4 The Works of Ibn Barrajān: Chronological Sequence, Manuscript Tradition, Central Themes; Introduction; I Al-Irshād ilā subul al-rashād Contextualizing the IrshādExcerpt of the Irshād from Zarkashī; II Sharḥ asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusnā; Ibn Barrajān's Interpretive Approach to the Divine Names; Organizational Structure of the Sharḥ; 1 Lexical analysis (takhrīj lughawī); 2 Contemplative crossing (iʿtibār); 3 Devotional practice of servanthood (taʿabbud); Letter Speculations in the Sharḥ; Ibn Barrajān's Sharḥ versus Ghazālī's Maqṣad; Unidentified Sources of the Sharḥ; Citations and References in the Sharḥ; III Tanbīh al-afhām ilā tadabbūr al-kitāb al-ḥakīm wa-taʿarruf al-āyāt wa-l-nabaʼ al-ʿaẓīm Summary A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajān, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West Subject Ibn Barrajān, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, -1141. SUBJECT Ibn Barrajān, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, -1141 fast Subject Sufism -- Spain -- Andalusia -- History Mysticism -- Islam -- Spain -- Andalusia Sufis -- Spain -- Andalusia -- Biography RELIGION -- Islam -- General. Mysticism -- Islam Sufis Sufism Spain -- Andalusia Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316887479 1316887472 9781316882252 131688225X 9781316888346 1316888347 1316888053 9781316888056 9781316636022 131663602X

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