A Treatise on Mystical Love /

A Treatise on Mystical Love / / 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, pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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