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スーフィズム・タリーカ論Ⅱ
Sufism and Tariqa Studies II

Target year From 1st to 5th year students Number of credits 2Day/period Mon.5

Class style

LectureGraduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
Professor,TONAGA YASUSHI
Part-time Lecturer,FUTATSUYAMA TATSURO

Course offeredyear/period

2017/Second semester

Language Japanese[Outline and Purpose of the Course]
When researching Sufism,, tariqa, or reverence for wali, one needs to study many genres of documents. In
this course, we will read a succession of major documents in these areas.
[Course Goals]
The objective of this lecture is to get the ability to read the Arabic classical texts and to have enoughknowledge of how to use the reference books for the reading the texts.
[Course Schedule and Contents]
For the above research, we will need to deal with various types of materials, such as books about theory,
collections of biographies, stories of virtuous acts, records of pilgrimages, chronologies, genealogies, andglossaries. In this course, we will deal with one or two types of materials per year and practice reading themclosely, continuing from the previous semester.
The following are among the types of documents we may read:al-Sulami, Collection of Sufi Biographies (descriptions of the lives of notable Sufis)
al-Ghazali, The Revival of the Religious Sciences (a major theoretical work of Sufism)#699Abd al-Qahir al-Suhrawardi: Spiritual Etiquette for Seekers of Tasawwuf (rules for practices inSuhrawardi Order)
During the first class session, we will talk about which books we should choose and read.
[Class requirement]
Knowledge of elementary Arabic grammar[Method, Point of view, and Attainment levels of Evaluation]
Students will be evaluated on the basis of attendance and class participation.
[Textbook]
Instructed during class
Assigned during class.
We will provide them and distribute them in class.

[Reference books, etc.]（Reference books）
Sato Tsugitaka, ed.: Isuramu no rekishi 1 [The History of Islam 1] (Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2010) ISBN:978-4-634-43141-6 (See Chapter 5: Tonaga Yasushi, Sufizumu no seiritsu to hatten [The Establishment
and Development of Sufism]. )Kosugi Yasushi, ed.: Isuramu no rekishi 2 [The History of Islam 2] (Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2010) ISBN:Continue to スーフィズム・タリーカ論Ⅱ(2)↓↓↓スーフィズム・タリーカ論Ⅱ(2)978-4-634-43142-3 (See Chapter 3: Tonaga Yasushi, Sufi kyodan no kakushin to saisei [Renewal andRevival of Sufi Religious Communities]. )Yamauchi Masayuki, Otsuka Kazuo, eds.: Isuramu o manabu hito no tameni [For People Studying Islam](Sekaishisosha, 1993) (See I-4: Tonaga Yasushi, Sufi to kyodan [Sufi and Religious Communities]. Thisis out of print, so borrow it from the library.)
Zarcone Thierry: Sufi: Isuramu no shinpishugishatachi [Sufi: Islamic Mystics] (Sogensha, 2011) ISBN: 9784-422-21212-8 (Features a rich variety of photographs. Tonaga Yasushi, supervising editor)
Other reference books will be assigned during class.

[Regarding studies out of class (preparation and review)]
Students will need to prepare themselves sufficiently before class. Be sure to confirm citations from theQuran and Hadiths that occur in the reading materials. When poems occur, be sure to research the meter. Also
consult not only the dictionaries but also the concordances of Quran and Hadith, dictionaries of place-names,
biographical dictionaries, and encyclopedia and glossaries.
（Others (office hour, etc.) ）*Please visit KULASIS to find out about office hours.