Sufis In Medieval Baghdad

Author : Atta Muhammad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755647590

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Sufis in Medieval Baghdad by Atta Muhammad Pdf

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.

Author : Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748628971

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Sufism by Ahmet T. Karamustafa Pdf

This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of Sufism, the major mystical tradition in Islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century CE. Based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of Sufism's historical development within an innovative analytical framework. Karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in Islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of Iraq-based Sufism to other regions of the Islamic world and its fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere, most notably the Malr cultural context

Author : Laury Silvers
Publisher : Laury Silvers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781777531331

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The Unseen by Laury Silvers Pdf

Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Islam and early Sufism. She is a North American Muslim living in Toronto. Book Three in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It’s easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad, 295 Hijri (908 CE) When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as anything other than an attack on the Shia community of Baghdad. The city is on edge as religious and political factions are exposed sending the caliph’s army into the streets. Ammar and Tein have to clear the case, one way or another, before violence erupts. But Zaytuna has had a visionary dream of the murder that holds the key to solving the case. Can she can read its signs? And will Tein and Ammar listen? "Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric. Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters." —Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of A Deadly Divide from The Getty-Khattak Mysteries, and The Khorasan Archives “In this exceptionally well-written and lucid book, Laury Silvers brings the intricacies of medieval Islamic religiosities and society to life. In exploring the little-known religious communities of medieval Baghdad, Silvers invites the reader to journey through the often forgotten multifaceted dimensions of pre-modern society, addressing questions such as dissent, sectarianism, and communal relations.” — Ahab Bdaiwi, Leiden and Cambridge Universities

Author : Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107182011

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Philosophers, Sufis and Caliphs by Ali Humayun Akhtar Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history from Morocco to Egypt and Iraq.

Author : Erik Ohlander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047432142

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Sufism in an Age of Transition by Erik Ohlander Pdf

Based on heretofore unexplored sources, this book offers a comprehensive study of the life, work, thought and influence of the eponym of one of the earliest Sufi ṭarīqa lineages, Abū 'Umar al-Suhrawardī (d. 632/1234).

Author : Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422710

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Sufism and Early Islamic Piety by Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi Pdf

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

Author : Daphna Ephrat
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0674032012

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Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety by Daphna Ephrat Pdf

This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed. The narrative centers on the process by which ascetics, mystics, and holy figures living in medieval Palestine and collectively labeled "Sufis," disseminated their traditions, formed communities, and helped shape an Islamic society and space. The work makes an original contribution to the study of the diffusion of Islam's religious traditions and the formation of communities of believers in medieval Palestine, as well as the Islamization of Palestinian landscape and the spread of popular religiosity in this area. The study of the area-specific is placed within the broader context of the history of Sufism, and the book is laced with observations about the historical social dimensions of Islamic mysticism in general. Central to its subject matters are the diffusion of Sufi traditions, the extension of the social horizons of Sufism, and the emergence of institutions and public spaces around the Sufi friend of God. As such, the book is of interest to historians in the fields of Sufism, Islam, and the Near East.

Author : Shahzad Bashir
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231144919

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Sufi Bodies by Shahzad Bashir Pdf

"Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, he explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities with particular attention to three arenas: religious activity in the form of rituals, rules of etiquette, asceticism, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity. Bashir ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives"--Cover p. [4].

Author : John Curry,Erik Ohlander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136659058

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Sufism and Society by John Curry,Erik Ohlander Pdf

This book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the later medieval and early modern Islamic world. Thematically organized, it includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions. It looks to reconceptualize the study of Sufism during an under-researched period of its history.

Author : N. Hanif
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sufis
ISBN : 8176252662

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Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis by N. Hanif Pdf

Author : Laury Silvers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999122879

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The Lover by Laury Silvers Pdf

This edition of The Lover is for academic use and is supplemented at the end with reading questions and a sample assignment.Baghdad, 295 Hijri (907 CE)Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely knows comes and begs her to bring some justice to the death of a local boy, she is forced to face the suffering of the most vulnerable in Baghdad and the emotional and mystical legacy of her mother, a famed ecstatic whose love for God eclipsed everything. The Lover is a historically sensitive mystery that introduces us to the world of medieval Baghdad and the lives of the great Sufi mystics, washerwomen, Hadith scholars, tavern owners, slaves, corpsewashers, police, and children indentured to serve in the homes of the wealthy. It asks what it means to have family when you have nearly no one left, what it takes to love and be loved by those who have stuck by you, and how one can come to love God and everything He's done to you.

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351675802

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Awhad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze by Lloyd Ridgeon Pdf

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238) was one of the greatest and most colourful Persian Sufis of the medieval period; he was celebrated in his own lifetime by a large number of like-minded followers and other Sufi masters. And yet his form of Sufism was the subject of much discussion within the Islamic world, as it elicited responses ranging from praise and commendation to reproach and contempt for his Sufi practices within a generation of his death. This book assesses the few comments written about Kirmānī by his contemporaries, and also provides a translation from his Persian hagiography, which was written in the generation after his death. The controversy centres on Kirmānī’s penchant for gazing at, and dancing with, beautiful young boys. This anonymous hagiography presents a series of anecdotes that portray Kirmānī’s “virtues”. The book provides an investigation into Kirmānī the individual, but the story has significance that extends much further. The controversy of his form of Sufism occurred at a crucial time in the evolution of Sufi piety and theology. The research herein situates Kirmānī within this critical period, and assesses the various perspectives taken by his contemporaries and near contemporaries. Such views reveal much about the dynamics and developments of Sufism during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Sufi orders (ṭurūq, s. ṭarīqa) began to emerge, and which gave individual Sufis a much more structured and ordered method of engaging in piety, and of presenting the Sufi tradition to society at large. As the first attempt in a Western language to appreciate the significant contribution that Kirmānī made to the medieval Persian Sufi tradition, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Sufi Studies, as well as those interested in Middle Eastern History.

Author : A.J. Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135029975

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Sufism by A.J. Arberry Pdf

Originally published in 1950.Thinkers such as Ghazali and Ibn `Arabi, poets such as Ibn al-Farid, Rumi, Hafiz and Jami were greatly inspired by the lives and sayings of the early Sufis. This book was the first short history of Sufism to be published in any language, illustrating the development of its doctrines with numerous quotations from literature.

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018303

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The Cambridge Companion to Sufism by Lloyd Ridgeon Pdf

This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.

Author : A.J. Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134538393

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A Sufi Martyr by A.J. Arberry Pdf

Originally published in 1969. This volume was composed by an eminent Sufi mystic whilst in prison in Baghdad, awaiting execution, in a vain attempt to overthrow his sentence; he was put to death in AD 1311 at the age of 33. This apologia is a document of great poignancy, composed in most elegant Arabic and translated with the customary skill and elegance for which A J Arberry became so well-known.