Sainthood and authority in early Islam : : Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī's Theory of wilāya and the reenvisioning of the Sunnī Caliphate / / by Aiyub Palmer.

• Superior document: Studies on Sufism ; Volume 5
• VerfasserIn: Palmer, Aiyub,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Sufism ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam Aiyub Palmer recasts wilāya in terms of Islamic authority and traces its development in both political and religious spheres up through the 3rd and 4th Islamic centuries. This book pivots around the ideas of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, the first Muslim theologian and mystic to write on the topic of wilāya . By looking at its structural roots in Arab and Islamic social organization, Aiyub Palmer has reframed the discussion about sainthood in early Islam to show how it relates more broadly to other forms of authority in Islam. This book not only looks anew at the influential ideas of al-Tirmidhī but also challenges current modes of thought around the nature of authority in Islamicate societies.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- System of Transliteration for Arabic Letters -- Introduction -- 0.1 The Study of Islamic Sainthood -- 0.2 / Wilāya/Walāya in the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth Literature -- 0.3 The Cult of Saints -- 0.4 Sainthood and Authority in the Age of Sanctification -- 0.5 Methodology -- 0.6 Sources -- 0.7 Thematic Classification of al-Tirmidhī’s Works -- 0.7.1 / Wilāya -- 0.7.2 / Disciplining the Lower Self -- 0.7.3 / Esoteric Vocabulary -- 0.7.4 / Esoteric Interpretation -- 0.7.5 / Polemical and Theological Works -- 0.7.6 / Knowledge and Men of Learning -- 0.7.7 / Moral and Ethical Teachings -- 0.7.8 / Correspondence -- 0.7.9 / Autobiography -- 0.8 Secondary Sources -- 1 / Wilāya/Walāya and the Basis of Authority in Early Islam -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Language of Authority -- 1.3 / Wilāya/walāya as a Socio-political Construct in Early Islam -- 1.4 / Walāʾ as a Pattern of Social Relations in the Umayyad Period -- 1.5 The ʿAbbāsid Revolution: / Wilāya and / Walāya in Action -- 1.6 Legal Authority and the Development of the Schools of Law -- 1.7 The Ḥanābila as a Solidarity Group -- 1.8 / Wilāya/Walāya and the Rise of the Ṣūfiyya -- 1.9 The Appearance of the / Awliyāʾ -- 1.10 Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and the Early / Awliyāʾ -- 2 The Historical and Social Context of Al-Tirmidhī’s Life and Times -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Al-Tirmidhī’s Clash with the Local / ʿUlamāʾ -- 2.3 The Scholarly Class or the / ʿUlamāʾ -- 2.4 The Shīʿīs and the Ṣūfī Alternative -- 2.5 Al-Tirmidhī and the Shīʿī Challenge -- 2.6 Clientage ( / walāʾ ) as a Social basis for Understanding Sunnī Authority -- 2.7 The / Wilāya -authority Paradigm -- 3 Wisdom Mediates the Terrestrial and Celestial -- 3.1 The Importance of / Ḥikma -- 3.2 Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm in the Near East -- 3.3 / Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm in Jewish and Christian Thought (7th- and 10th-centuries ce) -- 3.4 / Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm in 9th- and 10th-Century ce Khurāsān and Transoxania -- 3.5 / Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm among the Ṣūfīs -- 3.6 / Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm among the Early Ismāʿīlī Shīʿīs -- 3.7 / Ḥikma and the / Ḥakīm in the Theosophy of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī -- 3.8 The / Uṣūlī Roots of / Ḥikma -- 4 The Theological Significance of / Wilāya -- 4.1 Al-Tirmidhī’s Scholarly Background -- 4.2 Major Texts of the Ḥanafī Theological Tradition -- 4.3 The Development of Ḥanafī Theology -- 4.4 Al-Tirmidhī’s Ḥanafī Credentials -- 4.5 Al-Tirmidhī’s Ḥanafī Theology -- 4.6 Al-Tirmidhī’s Relationship to Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī -- 4.7 Al-Tirmidhī and the Later Ḥanafī Tradition -- 4.8 Mysticism in the Ḥanafī Tradition -- 4.9 The Effect of Ḥanafism on al-Tirmidhī’s Doctrine of / Wilāya -- 4.10 The / Awliyāʾ in early Creedal Texts -- 5 Al-Tirmidhī’s Gnoseology of Sainthood -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Sainthood in the / Homilies of Isaac of Nineveh -- 5.3 Sainthood in the 9th-Century ce -- 5.4 The Light-basis of al-Tirmidhī’s Doctrine of / Wilāya -- 5.5 Restricting Sainthood -- 5.6 The Optimism of al-Tirmidhī’s Doctrine of / Wilāya -- 5.7 / Wilāya Creates a Third Space -- 5.8 The Political Ramifications of / Ḥikma -- 5.9 The / Khātim al-Awliyāʾ -- 5.10 The “Hierarchy of Saints” -- 6 A Ṣūfī by Any Other Name: Al-Tirmidhī’s Relationship to Islamic Mysticism -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Was al-Tirmidhī a ‘Ṣūfī’? -- 6.3 Sufism and Hellenism -- 6.4 Early Sufism -- 6.5 Al-Junayd and al-Tirmidhī Build on the Work of al-Muḥāsibī -- 6.6 Nīshāpūr and the Development of Sufism as a Meta-Identity -- 6.7 Al-Sarrāj and al-Kalābādhī -- 6.8 Al-Sulamī and al-Qushayrī -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.