Narrating Muhammad's night journey : tracing the development of the Ibn Abbas ascension discourse / / Frederick S. Colby

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967499203321
• Autore: Colby Frederick Stephen <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9780791477885; 0791477886; 9781435666887; 1435666887
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.6/33
• Soggetti: Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-304) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- NARRATING MUHAMMAD'S NIGHT JOURNEY -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MUHAMMAD'S NIGHT JOURNEYIN THE QURAN -- THE NIGHT JOURNEY VERSE -- VERSES FROM THE CHAPTER OF THE OVERTURNING -- THE OPENING VERSES OF THE CHAPTER OF THE STAR -- THE APPROPRIATION OF TERMS AND PHRASES FROM THE QURĀN -- THE HEAVENLY HOST DEBATE -- THE FINAL VERSES (SEALS) OF THE CHAPTER OF THE COW -- PASSING REFERENCES TO ASCENSION IN THE QURĀN -- 2. ORALITY AND THE PRIMITIVE VERSION OF THE IBN ABBĀS ASCENSION NARRATIVE -- APPROACHING IBN ABBĀS AND THE PRIMITIVE VERSION -- COMPARATIVELY ANALYZING THE PRIMITIVE VERSION OF THE IBN ABBĀS ASCENSION NARRATIVE -- AUTHENTICATING AND DATING THE CIRCULATION OFTHE PRIMITIVE VERSION -- ECHOES OF MUQĀTIL B. SULAYMĀN'S COMMENTARYIN THE PRIMITIVE VERSION -- TRACING THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PRIMITIVE VERSION -- 3. EARLY HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MUHAMMAD'S JOURNEY -- FROM QURĀN AND ORAL REPORTS TO EARLY NARRATIVE HISTORY:IBN ISĀQ -- IBN ISĀQ'S ACCOUNT OF THE PROPHET'S NIGHT JOURNEYAS NARRATED BY IBN HISHĀM -- IBN ISĀQ'S ACCOUNT OF THE HEAVENLY JOURNEY AS NARRATED BY IBN HISHĀM -- THE EARLY ASCENSION NARRATIVE AS PRESENTED IN IBN SAD'S HISTORY -- THE ; NIGHT JOURNEY AS NARRATED BY IBN SAD -- 4. PROTO-SHĪĪ NARRATIVES OF HEAVENLY ASCENT -- THE ASCENSION EXPERIENCES OF PROTOSHĪĪ "EXTREMISTS" -- ASCENSION-RELATED SAYINGS IN SAFFĀR QUMMĪ'S COLLECTION -- THE QURĀN COMMENTARY OF FURĀT KŪFĪ -- 5. CANONICAL SUNNĪ HADĪTH REPORTS ON MUHAMMAD'S JOURNEY -- NIGHT JOURNEY AND ASCENSION HADĪTH REPORTS IN BUKHĀRĪ AND MUSLIM -- HADĪTH REPORTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NASĀĪ -- HADĪTH REPORTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF TIRMIDHĪ -- 6. THE USE AND APPROPRIATION OF THE IBN ABBĀS DISCOURSE IN COMMENTARIES -- NIGHT JOURNEY AND ASCENSION ACCOUNTS IN TABARĪ'S TAFSĪR.; THE ABŪ HURAYRA ASCENSION NARRATIVE FROM TABARĪ'S TAFSĪR -- THE ABŪ SAĪD KHUDRĪ ASCENSION NARRATIVE FROM TABARĪ'S TAFSĪR -- THE APPROPRIATION OF THE PRIMITIVE VERSION IN OTHER EARLY COMMENTARIES -- THE USE OF THE PRIMITIVE VERSION IN ALĪ QUMMĪ'S TAFSĪR -- THE USE OF THE PRIMITIVE VERSION IN THALABĪ'S TAFSĪR -- 7. CONTESTING THE PRIMITIVE VERSION IN NISHAPUR -- IBN HIBBĀN'S REJECTION OF THE PRIMITIVE VERSION -- SULAMĪ AND HIS COMPILATION OF SUFI SAYINGS ON MUHAMMAD'S ASCENSION -- QUSHAYRĪ AND HIS KITĀB ALMIRĀJ -- THE EXTENDED COSMOLOGICAL ASCENSION HADĪTH -- BAYHAQĪ'S REJECTION OF THE EXTENDED ASCENSION NARRATIVES -- 8. BAKRĪ'S TOTAL AND COMPLETE IBN ABBĀS DISCOURSE -- THE EVENTS PRIOR TO THE NIGHT JOURNEY IN TEXTS THAT INVOKE BAKRĪ -- MUHAMMAD'S NIGHT JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM IN TEXTS THAT INVOKE BAKRĪ -- BAKRĪ VERSIONS OF MUHAMMAD'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEAVENS -- MUHAMMAD'S JOURNEY BEYOND THE SEVEN HEAVENS IN BAKRĪ TEXTS -- DATING THE ASCENSION NARRATIVES ASCRIBED TO ABŪ AL-SAN BAKRĪ -- 9. THE CIRCULATION AND DIFFUSION OF BAKRĪ'S VERSIONS -- THE BASE NARRATIVE BEHIND IBN SĪNĀ'S ALLEGORICAL TREATISE -- EVIDENCE FROM SIXTH / TWELFTH CENTURY NORTH AFRICA -- LIBER SCALE AND THE DIFFUSION OF THE BAKRĪ VERSIONS IN THE SEVENTH/ THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- AN ANONYMOUS EASTERN PERSIAN MIRĀJNĀMA -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: TRANSLATION OF THEPRIMITIVE VERSION -- Appendix B: BAKRĪ'S "TOTAL AND COMPLETE" ASCENSION -- GLOSSARY: KEY THEMES AND TROPES IN THE IBN ABBĀS ASCENSION NARRATIVES -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: Discusses the historical development of the well-loved story of the Prophet Muhammad's night journey to the divine realm and back again.