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Author Akkach, Samer, author

Title Letters of a Sufi scholar : the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) / by Samer Akkach
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 534 pages) : map
Series Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; v. 74
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 74.
Contents Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence -- The intellectual milieu -- The letters of the Wasā'il -- List and description -- Places, towns, and correspondents -- Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces -- Content and significance -- On understanding Islam: letter 1 -- On struggle (jihād): letter 3 -- On causality: letter 4 -- On solitude: letters 6 and 10 -- On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14 -- On smoking: letter 25 -- On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62 -- On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters
Summary For the first time, this book presents the original Arabic texts of a ̃Abd al-GhanA al-NAbulusAa (TM)s letters, along with selected translations and fresh insights into the culture of correspondence, postal history, and main theological debates in the early modern period of Islam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English and Arabic
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Subject Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731 fast
Subject Sufis -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence
Muslim scholars -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence
RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.
Muslim scholars
Sufis
Syria -- Damascus
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731, author.
LC no. 2009023371
ISBN 9789047424338
9047424336
1282602411
9781282602410
9786612602412
6612602414