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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450947803321

Autore

Sirriyeh Elizabeth

Titolo

Sufi visionary of Ottoman Damascusa : 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731 / / Elizabeth Sirriyeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-29467-0

1-280-11005-8

0-203-34137-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

Routledge Sufi Series

Disciplina

297.4092

Soggetti

Sufis - Syria

Sufism - Syria - Damascus - History

Sufism - Doctrines

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The making of a scholarly saint; The birth of a saint; A family of lawyers; A scholar in training; Encounters with sufi books; Praising the prophet; The journey to Istanbul and Qādirî initiation; 2. The spiritual son of Ibn 'Arabī; In the steps of the Great Master; 'Lordly Revelation'; Wahdat al-wujūd and the problem of sin; Sound doctrine post-Ibn 'Arabī; Unbelief in this world and the afterlife; Faith and the sinful saint; 3. The Naqshabandī recluse; Abd al-Ghanī, the Naqshabandī

Mujaddidī connectionsDivine love, platonic love, gay love?; The seven-year retreat; A voice from the unseen world; 4. Interpreter of true dreams; 'The two worlds are one'; The dreaming of a saint; Messages from the 'world of truth'; Dreaming in symbols, predicting the future; The Perfuming of Humankind; An encyclopaedia of God's signs; Dreams of mosques, shrines and holy cities; Dreams of prophets and caliphs, of scorpions and spiders; 5. Solitude in a crowd; 'Outwardly in the world'; The pure gold of a Lebanese journey; Travels in a wild and sacred land; Turks, Jews and Christians



Events of 1693The longest journey; Nābulusî and the rulers; 6. 'A new kind of mystical travel-literature'; Nābulusī's mystical rihlas; Sufi elements in earlier rihlas; Men of the tarīqas; Encounters with ecstatics; Dreams of the righteous; Holy graves; Sufi saints of southern palestine; At the tombs of Ibn 'Arabī and Ibn al-Fārid; 7. Last years in Sālihiyya, 1707-1731; Conclusion: 'The illustrious mystic' and 'sultan of the learned'; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts. At the popular level, he has been read as an interpreter of symbolic dreams. Moreover, he played a crucial role in the transmission of the teachings of the Naqshabandiyya in the Ottoman Empire, and he contributed to the eighteenth-century Sufi revival via his disciples. This pioneering book analyzes important aspects of al-Nabulusi's work and places him in the historical context.