Intellectual life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism : : Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī's (d. 1101/1690) theology of Sufism / / by Naser Dumairieh.

• Superior document: Islamicate intellectual history ; 9
• VerfasserIn: Ḍumayrīyah, Nāṣir Muḥammad Yaḥyá,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Islamicate intellectual history ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (371 pages)

In Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism , Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts. Positioning Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalām and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kūrānī's work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn ʿArabī's ideas with Ashʿarī theology, Ibn ʿArabī's ideas became Islamic theology.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Introduction. When All Roads Led to the Ḥijāz -- ‎Chapter 1. The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global and Local Context -- ‎1. The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global Context -- ‎1.1. European Navies in the Indian Ocean -- ‎1.2. Iran's Conversion to Shīʿism -- ‎1.3. The Mughal Empire's Generous Donations to the Ḥijāz -- ‎1.4. Ottomans and the Ḥijāz -- ‎2. The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Local Context -- ‎3. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 2. Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century -- ‎1. Educational Institutions in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century -- ‎1.1. Madrasas, Ribāṭs, and Zāwiyas -- ‎1.2. Libraries, Book-Binders, and Book Scribes in Medina -- ‎1.3. Theoretical and Practical Sciences in the Ḥijāz -- ‎1.3.1. Medicine -- ‎1.3.2. Agriculture (ʿIlm al-filāḥa) -- ‎1.3.3. Astronomy -- ‎1.3.4. Chemistry (Ṣanʿat al-kīmiyāʾ) -- ‎1.3.5. Music Theory and Practice -- ‎2. Rational Sciences in the Ḥijāz -- ‎3. Isnād as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz -- ‎3.1. The Isnād of Intellectual Texts -- ‎4. How the Rational Sciences Reached the Ḥijāz -- ‎4.1. Al-Taftāzānī's (d. 793/1390) Works -- ‎4.2. Al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī's (d. 816/1413) Works -- ‎4.3. Al-Ījī's (d. 756/1355) Works -- ‎4.4. Al-Dawānī's (d. 908/1502) Works -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī's Life, Education, Teachers, and Students -- ‎1. Al-Kūrānī's Life -- ‎1.1. Al-Kūrānī's Early Life and Studies in His Homeland -- ‎1.2. Al-Kūrānī in Baghdad -- ‎1.3. Al-Kūrānī in Damascus -- ‎1.4. Through Cairo to the Ḥijāz -- ‎2. Al-Kūrānī's Education -- ‎3. Al-Kūrānī's Teachers -- ‎4. Al-Kūrānī's Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time -- ‎5. Al-Kūrānī's Students -- ‎6. Al-Kūrānī's Affiliation to Sufi Orders -- ‎7. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 4. Al-Kūrānī's Works -- ‎1. Al-Kūrānī's Works (Examined).

‎2. Al-Kūrānī's Works (Inaccessible) -- ‎3. Works Misattributed to al-Kūrānī -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Al-Kūrānī's Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought -- ‎1. God is Absolute Existence (al-wujūd al-muṭlaq or al-wujūd al-maḥḍ) -- ‎2. God's Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (taʾwīl) -- ‎3. God's Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms -- ‎4. Nafs al-amr in al-Kūrānī's Thought -- ‎5. Ashʿarites and Mental Existence -- ‎6. Realities: Uncreated Nonexistent Quiddities -- ‎6.1. Classifications of Nonexistents -- ‎6.2. The Description of Nonexistent and the Concept of "Thing" (shayʾ) -- ‎7. God's Knowledge of Particulars -- ‎8. Creation -- ‎9. Unity and Multiplicity -- ‎10. Destiny and Predetermination -- ‎11. Kasb: Free Will and Predestination -- ‎11.1. Good and Bad According to the Intellect (al-ḥusn wa-l-qubḥ al-ʿaqliyyayn) -- ‎11.2. Legal Responsibility (al-taklīf) -- ‎12. The Unity of the Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt) -- ‎13. Waḥdat al-Wujūd -- ‎14. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Al-Kūrānī's Other Theological and Sufi Thought -- ‎1. The Faith of Pharaoh -- ‎2. The Precedence of God's Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fanāʾ al-nār) -- ‎3. Satanic Verses -- ‎4. Preference for the Reality of the Kaʿba or for the Muḥammadan Reality -- ‎5. God's Speech (kalām Allāh) -- ‎6. Conclusion -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Appendix 1. Al-Kūrānī's Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text -- ‎Appendix 2. Al-Kūrānī's Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text -- ‎Appendix 3. Al-Kūrānī's Works Ordered Alphabetically -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.