Intellectual life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism : : Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī's (d. 1101/1690) theology of Sufism / / by Naser Dumairieh.
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...
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Superior document: | Islamicate intellectual history ; 9 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Islamicate intellectual history ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
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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.