A Treatise on Mystical Love / / Hassan Al Shafie, Ali al-Daylami, Joseph Norment Bell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: al-Daylami, Ali,; Al Shafie, Hassan,; Bell, Joseph Norment,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: JAIS Monographs : JAIS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Manuscript title page in English --; Author's Preface --; I. On the Chapters of the Book --; II. May the Word 'lshq Be Applied to Love for God and from God? --; III. Preliminary Considerations --; IV. On the Word Love, Its Derivation, and Its Meanings --; V. On the Origin and Beginning of Love and Eros --; VI. On the Essence and Quiddity of Love --; VII. On the Diverse Views People Hold about Love --; VIII. On the Description and Character of Eros --; IX. On Praiseworthy Love --; X. On Those Who Disparaged Love for Some Cause --; XI. On the Effects of Love [and Eros] and Their Signs and Symptoms --; XII. On the Signs of Love, Including the Sayings of Unimpeachable Spiritual Authorities among the Mystics and the Righteous --; XIII. On the Classification of Love according to Our Opinion --; XIV. On the Signs of God's Love for Man --; XV. On the Explanation of the Signs of Man's Love for God --; XVI. On the Signs [of the Love] of Those Who Love One Another in God --; XVII. On the Love of the Elite among Believers --; XVIII. On the Love of the Commonality of Muslims --; XIX. On the Love of All Other Animate Beings --; XX. On the Meaning of the Word Shāhid --; XXI. On the Definition of the Perfection of Love --; XXII. On Those Who Died of Natural Love --; XXIII. On Those Who Killed Themselves for Love --; XXIV. On the Death of Divine Lovers --; Bibliography --; Index of Persons, Peoples, and Places
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474463867; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474463867
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hassan Al Shafie, Ali al-Daylami, Joseph Norment Bell.

The earliest major Islamic treatise on mystical love, this work reflects a moderate version of the ecstatic mysticism of the Sufi martyr al-Hallaj. Writing around 1000 C.E., the author summarizes the views of lexicographers, belletrists, philosophers, physicians, theologians, and mystics on love, providing much information that would otherwise have been lost. In setting forth his own opinions he relies heavily on erotic poetry with accompanying frame stories from the Umayyad and early Abbasid periods, Sufi biography, the lives of the prophets, and personal information.