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

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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Ḍumayrīyah, Nāṣir Muḥammad Yaḥyá,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Islamicate intellectual history ; 9.
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.

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