Sufis and Sharīʿa : : The Forgotten School of Mercy / / Samer Dajani.

Establishes the existence of an important school of Sufi thought developed by Ibn ʿArabī Gives the first detailed analysis of the legal thought of Ibn ʿArabī, one of the most influential Muslims in general, and Sufis in particularShows that Ibn ʿArabī had created his own madhhab (legal methodology)...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations 3 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Sufis and Legal Theory
  • Part 1 Mysticism, Traditionalism and the School of Mercy
  • 1 The Schools of Law
  • 2 Sufis and Traditionalism
  • 3 Al-Tirmidhī’s Critique of Rationalism
  • 4 Ibn ʿArabī’s Traditionalism
  • 5 The Akbarī Madhhab: Ibn ʿArabī’s School of Mercy
  • 6 Loyalty to the Akbarī Way: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī
  • Part 2 Mercy in Flexibility: A Pat h for All Mankind
  • 7 The All-Comprehensive Nature of the Sharīʿa: From Tirmidhī to Suyūṭī
  • 8 The ‘Scale’ of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī
  • Part 3 The Akbarī Madhhab in Practice and its Influence on the Modern World
  • 9 Aḥmad ibn Idrīs and the Implementation of Ibn ʿArabī’s Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century
  • 10 The Teachings and Influence of Aḥmad ibn Idrīs
  • 11 From Ibn ʿArabī to the Salafīs
  • Conclusion: The Spirit of the Law – Competing Visions
  • Appendix: The Classical Juristic Debate on Whether Every Mujtahid Was Correct
  • References
  • Index