Ethics and spirituality in Islam
Subtitle: sufi adab
By: edited by Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Luca Patrizi
Series: Islamic literatures -- volume 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 685
ISBN-13: 9789004335097
Subjects: Sufism; Islamic ethics
Description: This collection of articles tries to explore how the formulations and reformulations of adab during the first centuries of Islam engages with the crucial period of the first great spiritual masters, exploring the importance of normativity, but also of transgression, in order to define the rules themselves. Assuming that adab is ethics, the articles analyse the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until the modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.