Islamic mysticism
Subtitle: a short history
By: by Alexander Knysh.
Series: Themes in Islamic studies,; v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Sufism -- History.; Mysticism -- Islam -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-333) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter I. The Beginnings; title: The Name; title: Assumptions and Goals; title: The Archetypal Sufi: Al-H. asan al-Basrr; title: The Accumulation of Ascetic and Mystical Lore; title: 'Abd al-W\ah.id b. Zayd; title: Variety of Devotional Styles: Ibrahtm Ibn Adham,; title: Ibn al-Mubarak and Fudayl Ibn 'Iyad; title: The Love Mysticism of Rabi'a al-'Adariyya; title: The Formation of Mystical Language and Speculation:; title: Shaqfq al-BalkhT; title: Chapter II. Asceticism and Mysticism in NVestern; title: Provinces: Syria and Egypt; title: Abfu Sulayman al-Darani and His Circle; title: Dhfi 'l-Nun al-Misr; title: Chapter III. The Sufism of the Baghdad School; title: The Rise of Mystical Psychology: al-Mulhasibi; title: The Formation of the Baghdadi Tradition; title: A Mysticism of Sobriety: al-Junayd al-Baghdadl; title: The Tongue of Sufi Science: Abu Sa'Cd al-Kharraz; title: The Blossom of Erotic Mysticism; title: Chapter IV. The "Intoxicated" Mysticism of al-Bistami and; title: al-Hallaj; title: Chapter V. Ascetic and Mystical Movements in Basra; title: and Khurasan .; title: Ibn Karram and the Karramiyya; title: The Path of Blame; title: Why Sufism? Some Observations Regarding Sufism's; title: Ascendancy During Islam's Golden Age; title: Chapter VI. The Systematization of the Sufi Tradition; title: Abu Nasr al-Sarraj and His "Kitab al-Luma"'; title: Abu Talib al-M akki; title: Sufism on the Eastern Fringe; title: The Systematization of Khurasani Tradition:; title: al-S ulam; title: Abu Nu'aym's "Decoration of the Saints"; title: Al-Qushayri's Sufi Manual; title: Sufism Speaks Persian: al-Hujwiri's Kashf al-mahjub; title: Sufism With a Hanbali Flavor: al-Ansarr al-Harawi; title: The Maturity of Sufi Science: al-Ghazali; title: Chapter VII. Sufism As Literature and Metaphysics: The; title: Grand Masters of Mystical Poetry and Philosophy; title: 'Attar; title: Rum; title: Jamy; title: Sufism As Unitive Metaphysics: Ibn [al-]'Arabi; title: Chapter VIII. Unity and Diversity in Sufism The Rise of; title: the Tarqas; title: The Grand Masters of Tarnqa Sufism; title: 'Abd al-Qadir and the Qadiriyya; title: Al-Suhrawardi and the Suhrawardiyya; title: Al-Shadhilr and the Beginnings of the Shadhiliyya; title: Baha' al-Din Naqshband and the Naqshbandiyya; title: Najm al-Din Kubra and the Kubrawiyya; title: Sufism in a Shi'i Context: The Ni'matullahiyya; title: Chapter IX. Sufi Institutions in Regional Contexts Over the; title: Last Six Centuries; title: Sufism and Sufi Brotherhoods in the Maghrib; title: Sufism in sub-Saharan Africa; title: A Turkish Face of Sufism: The Khalwatiyya and Other; title: Turkic Orders; title: Sufi Institutions in Moghul India; title: Sufism in Indonesia; title: Sufism in the Caucasus; title: Shamil and "Muridism": Methodological Problems; title: Chapter X. Major Sufi Concepts and Institutions; title: The Path: Tarq(a); title: The "States" and "Stations" of the Mystical Path; title: The Goal of the Mystical Path: fand'/baqa'; title: Sufi Epistemology: Kashf; title: Methods of Inducing Mystical States: khalwa, dhikr,; title: and sama'; title: General Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: General Index; title: Index of Book Titles; title: Index of Terms.