It’s not just academic!: essays on sufism and Islamic studies

"Cover" -- "Half title page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "PART 1 GENERAL AND CRITICAL ISSUES IN ISLAMIC STUDIES" -- "1 Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Pr...

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Main Author: Ernst, Carl W. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New Delhi, India SAGE Publications [2018]
New Delhi, India Yoda Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam
B Sufism
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:"Cover" -- "Half title page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "PART 1 GENERAL AND CRITICAL ISSUES IN ISLAMIC STUDIES" -- "1 Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism" -- "2 Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur’an as Literature in an American Public University" -- "3 “The West and Islam?” Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism" -- "4 Muḥammad as the Pole of Existence" -- "5 It’s Not Just Academic: Writing Public Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies" -- "6 The Global Significance of the Arabic Language" -- "PART 2 EARLY SUFISM" -- "7 Esoteric and Mystical Aspects of Religious Knowledge in Sufism" -- "8 Controversies over Ibn `Arabi’s Fusus: The Faith of Pharaoh" -- "9 Mystical Language and the Teaching Context in the Early Lexicons of Sufism" -- "10 The Man without Attributes: Ibn `Arabi’s Interpretation of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī" -- "11 Rūzbihān Baqlī on Love as “Essential Desire”" -- "12 An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgrimage" -- "13 The Stages of Love in Early Persian Sufism, from Rabi`a to Ruzbihan" -- "14 Sufism and Philosophy in Mulla Sadra" -- "15 Shams-i Tabriz and the Audacity of Bayazid Bistami" -- "PART 3 SUFISM, ART, AND LITERATURE" -- "16 The Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani’s Adab al-mashq" -- "17 The Symbolism of Birds and Flight in the Writings of Rūzbihān Baqlī" -- "18 On Losing One’s Head: Hallajian Motifs and Authorial Identity in Poems Ascribed to ʿAṭṭār" -- "19 Beauty and the Feminine Element of Spirituality" -- "20 Sufism and the Aesthetics of Penmanship in Sirāj al-Shīrāzī’s Tuḥfat al-Muḥibbīn (1454)" -- "21 Jalāl al-Dīn Davānī’s Interpretation of Ḥāfiẓ
"22 “A Little Indicates Much”: Structure and Meaning in the Prefaces to Rumi’s Masnavī, Books 1–3" -- "23 Wakened by the Dove’s Trill: Structure and Meaning in the Preface to Rūmī’s Masnavī, Book 4" -- "PART 4 CONTEMPORARYSUFISM" -- "24 Ideological and Technological Transformations of Contemporary Sufism" -- "25 Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the Contemporary World: Methodological Reflections on a Changing Field of Study" -- "PART 5 PERSIANATE THEMES" -- "26 Persianate Islamic Studies in American Universities" -- "27 Concepts of Religion in the Dabistan" -- "28 Early Orientalist Concepts of Sufism" -- "Index
A volume of essays on Islamic Studies with particular emphasis on Sufism and the need to stop looking at Islam as a religion that propagates violence
ISBN:9352800109