| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations, map |
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SUNY series in Islam.
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| Contents |
Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Tirmidhi, Ibn 'Arabi, and Others on Sanctity -- Tirmidhi on Walaya -- Sahl Tustari on Walaya -- Lesser Treatments of Walaya -- Walaya and Shi'ism -- Ibn 'Arabi and Walaya -- 2. The Early Shadhiliyya and Sanctity -- Literature and History of the Shadhiliyya -- Al-Shadhili, Tirmidhi, and Ibn 'Arabi -- The Early Figures of the Order -- The Writings of Ibn Bakhila -- Proximity to the Divine -- The Levels of Walaya -- Sanctity and Prophecy |
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3. The Wafa'iyya in Time and Space -- Arriving from the Maghreb -- Among the Elite of Cairo -- 4. The Writings of the Wafa's -- Poetry -- Supplications (du'a) -- Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Exegesis (tafsir) -- Mystical Treatises (Mu ammad Wafa') -- Mystical Treatises ('Ali Wafa') -- 5. Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa' -- Absolute Being and Its Self-disclosure -- The Preexistential and the Everlasting -- Spiritual Anthropology -- Cosmology -- The Teaching Shaykh and Beyond -- The Muhammadan Reality and the Pole -- Sanctity, the Renewer, and the Seal -- 6. Sanctity according to 'Ali Wafa' |
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Divine Oneness, Self-disclosure, and Creation -- The Teacher and Oneness -- On Walaya and Nubuwwa -- The Seal of Sainthood -- The Seal and the Renewer of Religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Tirmidhi, Ibn 'Arabi, and Others on Sanctity -- 2. The Early Shadhiliyya and Sanctity -- 3. The Wafa'iyya in Time and Space -- 4. The Writings of the Wafa's -- 5. Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa' -- 6. Sanctity according to 'Ali Wafa' -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index to the Qur'an -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W |
| Summary |
"Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Wafa's, a complete mystical worldview unfolds, one with a distinct doctrine of sainthood and a novel understanding of the apocalypse. Using almost entirely unedited manuscript sources, author Richard J.A. McGregor shows in detail how Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa' drew on earlier philosophical and gnostic currents to construct their own mystical theories and notes their debt to the Sufi order of the Shadhiliyya, the mystic al-Tirmidhi, and the great Sufi thinker Ibn 'Arabi. Notably, although located firmly within the Sunni tradition, the Wafa's felt free to draw on Shi'ite ideas for the construction of their own theory of the final great saint."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and indexes |
| Notes |
Predominantly in English with some Arabic |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wafā, Muḥammad, 1302 or 1303-1363.
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Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240.
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| SUBJECT |
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240 fast |
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Wafā, Muḥammad, 1302 or 1303-1363 fast |
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Sufism -- Egypt -- History
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Muslim saints -- Egypt -- History
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.
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Muslim saints
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Sufism
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Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1417575832 |
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9781417575831 |
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0791460118 |
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9780791460115 |
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