Title: Letters of a Sufi scholar : the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) /
Authors: Akkach, Samer; Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, Correspondence.; Sufis Syria Damascus Correspondence.; Muslim scholars Syria Damascus Correspondence.
Contents: Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence -- The intellectual milieu -- The letters of the Wasā'il -- List and description -- Places, towns, and correspondents -- Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces -- Content and significance -- On understanding Islam: letter 1 -- On struggle (jihād): letter 3 -- On causality: letter 4 -- On solitude: letters 6 and 10 -- On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14 -- On smoking: letter 25 -- On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62 -- On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters.