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Esoteric Traditions in Islamic Thought
An Anthology of Texts on Esoteric Knowledge and Gnosis in Islam
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Esoteric Traditions in Islamic Thought
An Anthology of Texts on Esoteric Knowledge and Gnosis in Islam
About this book
The notion of esoteric knowledge is one of the pillars of Islamic intellectual tradition. Though most visible in Sufism, it also dominated the first three and a half centuries of Shi‘ite thought.
In this rich anthology, Leonard Lewisohn explores Islamic esotericism through the works of eleven authors who flourished in Persia, Central Asia and Asia Minor from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries. He presents excerpts from each text in translation, accompanying these with introductions to the author’s life, works and thought. In the course of his erudite and enlightening commentary, he explores the common ground of esoteric thought and terminology, revealing a unity of perspective among Muslim thinkers.
In this rich anthology, Leonard Lewisohn explores Islamic esotericism through the works of eleven authors who flourished in Persia, Central Asia and Asia Minor from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries. He presents excerpts from each text in translation, accompanying these with introductions to the author’s life, works and thought. In the course of his erudite and enlightening commentary, he explores the common ground of esoteric thought and terminology, revealing a unity of perspective among Muslim thinkers.
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Islamic TheologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. The science of symbolic allusions: selections from abū ibrāhīm ismā‘īl b. muḥammad mustamlī bukhārī’s (d. 434/1042–43) sharḥ ta‘arruf li-madhhab al-taṣawwuf
- II. On the true meaning of esoteric knowledge: abū ḥāmid al-ghazālī’s (d. 505/1111) al-risālat al-ladunī
- III. Esoteric psychology and knowledge of the heart: selections from rashīd al-dīn maybudī’s (d. 520/1126) kashf al-asrār wa ‘uddat al-abrār151
- IV. Typologies of gnosis and knowledge: rashīd al-dīn maybudī’s commentary on qur’ān v:98 in his kashf al-asrār 164
- V. Gnosis and the via negativa: ‘ayn al-quḍāt hamadhānī (executed 526/1132) on gnosis
- VI. The initiatic science of unveiling: selections from ibn ‘arabī’s (d. 638/1240) al-futūḥāt al-makkīyya
- VII. The typology of knowledge in sufism: selections from ‘izz al-dīn maḥmūd kāshānī’s (d. 735/1334) miṣbāḥ al-hidāya wa miftāḥ al-kifāya
- VIII. Epistemological deliberations on gnosis and visionary unveiling: a chapter from sayyid ḥaydar āmulī’s (d. after 787/1385) kitāb naṣṣ al-nuṣūṣ (fī sharḥ fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam
- IX. The seven stages of the spiritual hierarchy: ṣā’īn al-dīn turkah iṣfahānī’s (d. 830/1427) risāla-yi shaqq al-qamar va sā‘at
- X. Visionary unveiling and the esoteric sciences: selections from mullā ṣadr’s (d. 1045/1636) mafātīḥ al-ghayb
- XI. Esoteric and exoteric paths of knowledge in islam: selections from ‘abd al-razzāq lāhījī’s (d. 1072/1661–2) gawhar-i murād
- XII. The reality of visionary unveiling: selections from sabziwārī’s (d. 1289/1873) correspondence
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Qur’ānic References
- General Index
- Copyright