Al Qushayris Epistle On Sufism

Author : ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī
Publisher : Garnet & Ithaca Press
ISBN 13 : 9781859641866
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism written by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī and published by Garnet & Ithaca Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an insight into the everyday lives of Sufi devotees of the eighth-eleventh centuries and the moral and ethical dilemmas they were facing. This work invites the reader to explore the world of Islamic ascetic and mystical piety.

Author : ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī
Publisher : Kazi Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Risalah written by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī and published by Kazi Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abu 'L-Qasim Al-Qushayri
Publisher : Dar UL Thaqafah
ISBN 13 : 9789394834170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism written by Abu 'L-Qasim Al-Qushayri and published by Dar UL Thaqafah. This book was released on 2023-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the Epistle on Sufism, Abu 'l-Qasim al-Qushayri (376/986-465/1074), was a famous Sunni scholar and mystic (Sufi) from Khurasan in Iran. His Epistle is probably the most popular Sufi manual ever . Written in 437/1045, it has served as a primary textbook for many generations of Sufi novices down to the present. In it, Al-Qushayri gives us an illuminating insight into the everyday lives of Sufi devotees of the eighth to eleventh centuries C.E. and the moral and ethical dilemmas they were facing in trying to strike a delicate balance between their ascetic and mystical convictions and the exigencies of life in a society governed by rank, wealth, and military power. In al-Qushayri's narrative, the Sufi 'friends of God' (awaliya') are depicted as the true, if uncrowned, 'kings' of this world, not those worldly rulers who appear to be lording it over the common herd of believers. Yet, even the most advanced Sufi masters should not take salvation for granted. Miracle-working, no matter how spectacular, cannot guarantee the Sufi a 'favourite outcome' in the afterlife, for it may be but a ruse on the part of God who wants to test the moral integrity of his servant. In the Epistle these and many other Sufi motifs are illustrated by the anecdotes and parables that show al-Qushayri's fellow Sufis in a wide variety of contexts: suffering from hunger and thirst in the desert, while performing pilgrimage to Mecca, participating in 'spiritual concerts', reciting the Qur'an, waging war against the 'infidel' enemy and their own desires, earning their livelihood, meditating in a retreat, praying, working miracles, interacting with the 'people of the market-place', their family members and peers, dreaming, and dying. About The Author Abul Qasim Al-Qushayri was a student of the Shaykh Abu `Ali al-Daqqaq, He was a muhaddith who transmitted hadith to pupils by the thousands in Naysabur, in which he fought the Mu`tazila until he fled to Makkah to protect his life, He was also a mufassir who wrote a complete commentary of the Qur'an entitled Lata'if al-isharat bi tafsir al-Qur'an (The subtleties and allusions in the commentary of the Qur'an).

Author : Abu 'L-Qasim Al-Qushayri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism - Al-Risala Al Qushayriyya Fi 'ilm Al-Tasawwuf written by Abu 'L-Qasim Al-Qushayri and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the Epistle on Sufism, Abu 'l-Qasim al-Qushayri (376/986-465/1074), was a famous Sunni scholar and mystic (Sufi) from Khurasan in Iran. His Epistle is probably the most popular Sufi manual ever . Written in 437/1045, it has served as a primary textbook for many generations of Sufi novices down to the present. In it, Al-Qushayri gives us an illuminating insight into the everyday lives of Sufi devotees of the eighth to eleventh centuries C.E. and the moral and ethical dilemmas they were facing in trying to strike a delicate balance between their ascetic and mystical convictions and the exigencies of life in a society governed by rank, wealth, and military power. In al-Qushayri's narrative, the Sufi 'friends of God' (awaliya') are depicted as the true, if uncrowned, 'kings' of this world, not those worldly rulers who appear to be lording it over the common herd of believers. Yet, even the most advanced Sufi masters should not take salvation for granted. Miracle-working, no matter how spectacular, cannot guarantee the Sufi a 'favourite outcome' in the afterlife, for it may be but a ruse on the part of God who wants to test the moral integrity of his servant. In the Epistle these and many other Sufi motifs are illustrated by the anecdotes and parables that show al-Qushayri's fellow Sufis in a wide variety of contexts: suffering from hunger and thirst in the desert, while performing pilgrimage to Mecca, participating in 'spiritual concerts', reciting the Qur'an, waging war against the 'infidel' enemy and their own desires, earning their livelihood, meditating in a retreat, praying, working miracles, interacting with the 'people of the market-place', their family members and peers, dreaming, and dying. About The Author Abul Qasim Al-Qushayri was the student of the Shaykh Abu `Ali al-Daqqaq, He was a muhaddith who transmitted hadith to pupils by the thousands in Naysabur, in which he fought the Mu`tazila until he flew to Makkah to protect his life, He was also a mufassir who wrote a complete commentary of the Qur'an entitled Lata'if al-isharat bi tafsir al-Qur'an (The subtleties and allusions in the commentary of the Qur'an). This works is his most famous work, which is one of the early complete manuals of the science of tasawwuf.

Author : ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789695191828
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism written by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abulḥasan ʻAlī Nadvī
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaikh-ul-Islam Ibn Taimiyah written by Abulḥasan ʻAlī Nadvī and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Garden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199989621
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book The First Islamic Reviver written by Kenneth Garden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Islamic Reviver presents a new biography of al-Ghazali's final decade and a half, presenting him not as a reclusive spiritual seeker, but as an engaged Islamic revivalist seeking to reshape his religious tradition.

Author : Ibn Abd Al-Salam
Publisher : ISCA
ISBN 13 : 9781930409026
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367889401
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Awhad Al-Din Kirmani and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238) was one of the greatest and most colourful Persian Sufis of the medieval period; he was celebrated in his own lifetime by a large number of like-minded followers and other Sufi masters. And yet his form of Sufism was the subject of much discussion within the Islamic world, as it elicited responses ranging from praise and commendation to reproach and contempt for his Sufi practices within a generation of his death. This book assesses the few comments written about Kirmānī by his contemporaries, and also provides a translation from his Persian hagiography, which was written in the generation after his death. The controversy centres on Kirmānī's penchant for gazing at, and dancing with, beautiful young boys. This anonymous hagiography presents a series of anecdotes that portray Kirmānī's "virtues". The book provides an investigation into Kirmānī the individual, but the story has significance that extends much further. The controversy of his form of Sufism occurred at a crucial time in the evolution of Sufi piety and theology. The research herein situates Kirmānī within this critical period, and assesses the various perspectives taken by his contemporaries and near contemporaries. Such views reveal much about the dynamics and developments of Sufism during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Sufi orders (ṭurūq, s. ṭarīqa) began to emerge, and which gave individual Sufis a much more structured and ordered method of engaging in piety, and of presenting the Sufi tradition to society at large. As the first attempt in a Western language to appreciate the significant contribution that Kirmānī made to the medieval Persian Sufi tradition, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Sufi Studies, as well as those interested in Middle Eastern History.

Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018307
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sufism written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.