Islamic thought and the art of translation : : texts and studies in honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata / / edited by Mohammed Rustom.

"Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, and in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than...

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Superior document:Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 202
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 202.
Physical Description:1 online resource (586 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • ‎Contents
  • ‎‮هو‬‎ Foreword
  • ‎Preface
  • ‎Acknowledgements
  • ‎List of Figures
  • ‎Notes on the Contributors
  • ‎Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
  • ‎Part 1. Sufism in Persianate Contexts
  • ‎Chapter 1. ʿAyn al-Quḍāt's Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian (Ariankhoo and Rustom)
  • ‎Chapter 2. The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī (Murata)
  • ‎Chapter 3. Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil (Karjoo-Ravary)
  • ‎Chapter 4. Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light (Nair)
  • ‎Chapter 5. Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn's Makhzan-i ʿirfān (Massi Dakake)
  • ‎Part 2. The Akbarian Tradition
  • ‎Chapter 6. Some Notes on Ibn ʿArabī's Correlative Prophetology (Vandamme)
  • ‎Chapter 7. Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) (Pharaa)
  • ‎Chapter 8. Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī's Nafaḥāt (Cancelliere)
  • ‎Chapter 9. Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʿArabī's Lettrist Cosmogony (Melvin-Koushki)
  • ‎Chapter 10. Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light (DuBois)
  • ‎Chapter 11. Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God's Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt) (Dumairieh)
  • ‎Chapter 12. The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim (Edaibat)
  • ‎Chapter 13. A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma li-l-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya) (Ogunnaike)
  • ‎Part 3. Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology
  • ‎Chapter 14. Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʿili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw (Andani).
  • ‎Chapter 15. The Necessity of the Return (al-maʿād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6-7 (Dadikhuda)
  • ‎Chapter 16. Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi's Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies (Ansari)
  • ‎Chapter 17. Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood (Faruque)
  • ‎Chapter 18. Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context (Meisami)
  • ‎Chapter 19. Asad Allāh Qazwīnī's Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa (Zargar and Asghari)
  • ‎Part 4. Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation
  • ‎Chapter 20. Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation (Latif)
  • ‎Chapter 21. Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission (Ali)
  • ‎Chapter 22. Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative (Silvers)
  • ‎Chapter 23. The Tao of maʿrifa: Adam's Encounter with Hell in Paradise (Mehdi Ali)
  • ‎Chapter 24. A Supplication for God's Mercy on the Day of ʿArafa by the Fatimid Chief Dāʿī al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī (Qutbuddin)
  • ‎Chapter 25. Made in God's Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari (Casewit)
  • ‎Chapter 26. Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher (Khalil)
  • ‎Index of Names and Technical Terms.