The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
In The Grey Falcon , Hamza Malik offers an account of the life and teaching of the twelfth century scholar and Sufi of Baghdad, and eponym of the Qadiri order, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077-1166). The question of whether Jīlānī was a Sufi, or simply a scholar appropriated by later Sufis as ha...
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| Superior document: | Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 155 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic History and Civilization
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Time, Place and Person
- Setting the Scene: Baghdad Around The Time of Jīlānī
- The Life of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
- Thought, Practice and Experience
- Theology I: The Ḥanbalī Foundation
- Theology II: Names and Nomenclature
- Sufism I: Reading the Ghunya
- Sufism II: the Path to the Truth
- The Figure of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
- Concluding Remarks
- Back Matter
- Select Bibliography
- Index.