Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology
Subtitle: 'Abd Al-Ghan? Al-N?bulus? and His Network of Scholarship
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG
Published: 2019
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9783161566684
Subjects: Islam, syria
Description: The present volume is dedicated to the study of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731), an outstanding religious scholar, sufi thinker and man of letters from 17th-18th-century Ottoman Syria. With its focus on a careful examination of Nābulusī's multifaceted and enriching textual corpus, the present volume offers an in-depth analysis of both his thought and his intellectual milieu. The essays presented here reflect the wide spectrum of  Nābulusī's interests, from scriptural exegesis to theology, from jurisprudence to mysticism, from philosophy to poetry, ethics and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary character of the present volume contributes to a better appreciation of Nābulusī's impact on the diversified intellectual and religious history of the 17th-18th-century world of Islam, described until recently as a time of 'stagnation' and 'decline'.