Islamic Mysticism: a Short History

Islamic Mysticism: a Short History

Alexander Knysh

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill

2000

Series: Themes in Islamic studies; Vol. 1

Chapter I. The Beginnings -- The Name -- Assumptions and Goals -- The Archetypal Sufi: Al-H. asan al-Basrr -- The Accumulation of Ascetic and Mystical Lore -- 'Abd al-W\ah.id b. Zayd -- Variety of Devotional Styles: Ibrahtm Ibn Adham, -- Ibn al-Mubarak and Fudayl Ibn 'Iyad -- The Love Mysticism of Rabi'a al-'Adariyya -- The Formation of Mystical Language and Speculation: -- Shaqfq al-BalkhT -- Chapter II. Asceticism and Mysticism in NVestern -- Provinces: Syria and Egypt -- Abfu Sulayman al-Darani and His Circle -- Dhfi 'l-Nun al-Misr -- Chapter III. The Sufism of the Baghdad School -- The Rise of Mystical Psychology: al-Mulhasibi -- The Formation of the Baghdadi Tradition -- A Mysticism of Sobriety: al-Junayd al-Baghdadl -- The Tongue of Sufi Science: Abu Sa'Cd al-Kharraz -- The Blossom of Erotic Mysticism -- Chapter IV. The "Intoxicated" Mysticism of al-Bistami and -- al-Hallaj -- Chapter V. Ascetic and Mystical Movements in Basra -- and Khurasan . -- Ibn Karram and the Karramiyya -- The Path of Blame -- Why Sufism? Some Observations Regarding Sufism's -- Ascendancy During Islam's Golden Age -- Chapter VI. The Systematization of the Sufi Tradition -- Abu Nasr al-Sarraj and His "Kitab al-Luma"' -- Abu Talib al-M akki -- Sufism on the Eastern Fringe -- The Systematization of Khurasani Tradition: -- al-S ulam -- Abu Nu'aym's "Decoration of the Saints" -- Al-Qushayri's Sufi Manual -- Sufism Speaks Persian: al-Hujwiri's Kashf al-mahjub -- Sufism With a Hanbali Flavor: al-Ansarr al-Harawi -- The Maturity of Sufi Science: al-Ghazali -- Chapter VII. Sufism As Literature and Metaphysics: The -- Grand Masters of Mystical Poetry and Philosophy -- 'Attar -- Rum -- Jamy -- Sufism As Unitive Metaphysics: Ibn [al-]'Arabi -- Chapter VIII. Unity and Diversity in Sufism The Rise of -- the Tarqas -- The Grand Masters of Tarnqa Sufism -- 'Abd al-Qadir and the Qadiriyya -- Al-Suhrawardi and the Suhrawardiyya -- Al-Shadhilr and the Beginnings of the Shadhiliyya -- Baha' al-Din Naqshband and the Naqshbandiyya -- Najm al-Din Kubra and the Kubrawiyya -- Sufism in a Shi'i Context: The Ni'matullahiyya -- Chapter IX. Sufi Institutions in Regional Contexts Over the -- Last Six Centuries -- Sufism and Sufi Brotherhoods in the Maghrib -- Sufism in sub-Saharan Africa -- A Turkish Face of Sufism: The Khalwatiyya and Other -- Turkic Orders -- Sufi Institutions in Moghul India -- Sufism in Indonesia -- Sufism in the Caucasus -- Shamil and "Muridism": Methodological Problems -- Chapter X. Major Sufi Concepts and Institutions -- The Path: Tarq(a) -- The "States" and "Stations" of the Mystical Path -- The Goal of the Mystical Path: fand'/baqa' -- Sufi Epistemology: Kashf -- Methods of Inducing Mystical States: khalwa, dhikr, -- and sama' -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Book Titles -- Index of Terms.

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