Title Intellectual life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism : Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī's (d. 1101/1690) theology of Sufism / Naser Dumairieh

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Series Islamicate intellectual history, 2212-8662 ; 9 Contents Introduction: When All Roads Led to the Ḥijāz -- 1. The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global and Local Context -- 2. Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī's Life, Education, Teachers, and Students -- 4. Al-Kūrānī's Works -- 5. Al-Kūrānī's Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought -- 6. Al-Kūrānī's Other Theological and Sufi Thought -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Al-Kūrānī's Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text -- Appendix 2: Al-Kūrānī's Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text -- Appendix 3: Al-Kūrānī's Works Ordered Alphabetically -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "In Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts. Positioning Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalām and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kūrānī's work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn ʻArabī's ideas with Ashʻarī theology, Ibn ʻArabī's ideas became Islamic theology"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2022) Subject Kūrānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan, 1616 or 1617-approximately 1690. SUBJECT Kūrānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan, 1616 or 1617-approximately 1690 fast Subject Muslim philosophers -- Saudi Arabia -- Hejaz -- Biography Sufism -- History -- 17th century Intellectual life Muslim philosophers Sufism SUBJECT Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) -- History -- 17th century Subject Saudi Arabia -- Hejaz Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021052523 ISBN 9004499059 9789004499058

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