Sufism and theology / / edited by Ayman Shihadeh [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462209303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 0-7486-5312-0; 0-7486-3134-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iv, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 297.41
• Soggetti: Sufism - Theology; Sufism - Doctrines; Mysticism - Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mystical theology and the traditionalist hermeneutics of Maybudī's Kashf al-Asrār / Annabel Keeler -- The all-comprehensive circle (al-Iḥāṭa) : soul, intellect, and the oneness of existence in the doctrine of Ibn Sabʹīn / Vincent J. Cornell -- One aspect of the Akbarian turn in Shīʹī theology / Robert Wisnovsky -- Sufism and theology in the confessions of Ṣāʼin al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 830/1437) / Leonard Lewisohn -- A Sufi theology fit for a Shīʹī king : the Gawhar-i Murād of ʻAbd al-Razzāq Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661-2) / Sajjad Rizvi -- The mystic and the sceptic in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / Ayman Shihadeh -- Ibn Taymiyya's commentary on the Creed of al-Ḥallāj / Yahya Michot -- Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534) on Ibn ʻArabī's hagiology / Tim Winter -- Scriptural Sufism and scriptural anti-Sufism : theology and mysticism among the Shīʻʻī Akhbāriyya / Robert Gleave -- Reconciling Sufism with theology : Abū l-Wafā al-Taftāzānī and the construct of 'al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmi' in modern Egypt / Andreas Christmann.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the relationship between the Sufi and theological currents in Islamic history, underscoring aspects of tension and interaction between them.