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Containing the Essence of Islamic Mysticism: Notes on a Sufi Version of the Game “Snakes and Ladders” from Afghanistan 蕴含伊斯兰神秘主义的精髓：阿富汗苏菲派 "蛇梯 "游戏笔记

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341341

Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

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Poetry as Exegesis: St. Ephrem and Ibn ʿArabī on the Representation of Scriptural Exegesis in Poetry 作为注释的诗歌：圣埃弗勒姆和伊本-阿拉比关于诗歌中训诂的表现形式

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10034

Tareq Moqbel

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Sufis, Renunciants, and Worshippers in Tārīkh Baghdād 塔里克-巴格达的苏菲派、弃徒和崇拜者

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341340

Christopher Melchert

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The Spiritual Teachings of Zakariyyā Kāndhlavī (d. 1982) in Fażāʾil-i Durūd Sharīf 《扎卡里耶的精神教诲Kāndhlavī》(1982年出版)，收录于Fażā - il-i - Durūd sharj . f .

Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10031

Imad Jafar

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Al-Shaʿrānī’s Defence of Ibn ʿArabī in Context: Interpreting ‘the Oneness of Existence’ (waḥdat al-wujūd) as Experiential Oneness Al-Sha - ahu rānī在语境中为伊本·阿拉伯语辩护:将“存在的统一性”(waḥdat al-wujūd)解释为经验统一性

Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10033

Haruka Cheifetz

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Building an Archival Persona: The Transformation of Sufi Ijāza Culture in Russia, 1880s–1920s 建立档案人物:苏菲文化在俄罗斯的转变Ijāza, 1880 - 1920

Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10032

Alfrid Bustanov, Shamil Shikhaliev, Ilona Chmilevskaia

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On Wine-Drinking in Sufi-Philosophical Islam: A Response to Shahab Ahmed 论苏菲哲学伊斯兰的饮酒:对沙哈布·艾哈迈德的回应

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10030

Arjun Nair

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Summoned Letters, the Disjointed Letters and the Talisman of Ibn ʿArabī 召唤的信件，脱节的信件和伊本·阿拉伯的护身符

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10029

Dunja Rašić

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Writing about the Mawlid al-Sharīf in Eighth/Fourteenth-Century Maghrib: A Sufi-Legal Discourse 关于八、十四世纪马格里布的马布里德·沙里夫的写作：苏菲的法律话语

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-bja10027

Kameliya Atanasova

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Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, written by Domenico Ingenito 《看得见的美：设拉子的萨与中世纪波斯诗歌中的欲望美学》，多梅尼科·英格尼托著

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Journal of Sufi Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341337

Marc Toutant

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