RT Book
T1 The mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajan and Islamic thought in the twelfth century
T2 Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
A1 Casewit, Yousef
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/893456012
AB The twelfth century CE was a watershed moment for mysticism in the Muslim West. In al-Andalus, the pioneers of this mystical tradition, the Mu'tabirun or 'Contemplators', championed a synthesis between Muslim scriptural sources and Neoplatonic cosmology. Ibn Barrajān of Seville was most responsible for shaping this new intellectual approach, and is the focus of Yousef Casewit's book. Ibn Barrajān's extensive commentaries on the divine names and the Qur'an stress the significance of God's signs in nature, the Arabic bible as a means of interpreting the Qur'an, and the mystical crossing from the visible to the unseen. With an examination of the understudied writings of both Ibn Barrajān and his contemporaries, Ibn al-'Arif and Ibn Qasi, as well as the wider socio-political and scholarly context in al-Andalus, this book will appeal to researchers of the medieval Islamic world and the history of mysticism and Sufism in the Muslim West
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 May 2017)
CN BP188.8.S72
SN 9781316882252
K1 Ibn Barrajān, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad : -1141
K1 Sufis : Spain : Andalusia : Biography
K1 Mysticism : Islam : Spain : Andalusia
K1 Sufism : Spain : Andalusia : History
K1 Ibn Barrajān, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ; -1141
K1 Sufism ; Spain ; Andalusia ; History
K1 Mysticism ; Islam ; Spain ; Andalusia
K1 Sufis ; Spain ; Andalusia ; Biography
DO 10.1017/9781316882252