Letters of a Sufi scholar
Subtitle: the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731)
By: by Samer Akkach.
Contributors: Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731.
Series: Islamic history and civilization -- v. 74; Islamic history and civilization -- v. 74.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ara
ISBN-13: 9789004171022
Subjects: Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, -- 1641-1731 -- Correspondence; Sufis -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence; Muslim scholars -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence; title: The intellectual milieu; title: The letters of the Wasā'il; title: List and description; title: Places, towns, and correspondents; title: Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces; title: Content and significance; title: On understanding Islam: letter 1; title: On struggle (jihād): letter 3; title: On causality: letter 4; title: On solitude: letters 6 and 10; title: On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14; title: On smoking: letter 25; title: On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62; title: On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters.