{"title":"Ẕahīn Shāh Tājī’s (d. 1978) Signs of Beauty (Āyāt-i Jamāl)","authors":"Amer Latif","doi":"10.1163/22105956-bja10018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-bja10018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Bābā Ẕahīn Shāh Tājī (d. 1978) is a well-known Sufi poet in Pakistan. He belonged to the Chishtī Sufi order and his mausoleum in Karachi is a center of pilgrimage known for its weekly Qawwali (devotional singing) gatherings. This article presents an overview of Tājī’s experience and articulation of the Sufi path through selected English translations from his collection of Urdu ghazals, Signs of Beauty (Āyāt-i jamāl), which are performed by Qawwals and ghazal singers both in India and in Pakistan to this day.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41363642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traduction commentée des sentences parallèles (duilian) de Ma Qixi (1857-1914), fondateur du Xidaotang","authors":"Marie-Paule Hille","doi":"10.1163/22105956-12341330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341330","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cet article propose d’explorer les procédés par lesquels une pensée soufie s’est diffusée dans les lieux de culte et de vie communautaire des musulmans chinois dans le nord-ouest de la Chine pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle. La traduction et l’étude des seize sentences parallèles (duilian) écrites entre 1908 et 1914 par le saint fondateur du Xidaotang, Ma Qixi (1857-1914), montrent que l’usage d’une terminologie puisée dans les registres de la pensée morale et des religions chinoises (néo-confucianisme, bouddhisme, taoïsme) et la maîtrise de procédés textuels chinois, tels que le parallélisme et la correspondance, ont été des ressorts efficaces pour répandre les préceptes islamiques, les règles de conduite morale en société et les principes d’une spiritualité soufie. Ces sentences parallèles, exposées dans les lieux fréquentés par les croyants, rappelaient les règles de vie en communauté et guidaient les fidèles sur le chemin de la Voie. Bien que le message religieux soit exprimé dans la matrice d’une pensée chinoise, tant terminologique que textuelle, sa signification n’en reste pas moins islamique pour ceux qui le reçoivent et l’interprètent. L’examen approfondi de ce corpus de sentences parallèles révèle qu’elles véhiculent des catégories de l’action qui incitent à l’accomplissement des actes méritoires ; leur originalité réside probablement dans le fait qu’elles rappellent à tout moment, dans les espaces communs, la figure de l’exemplarité et le principe de l’unicité divine.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45815326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Institutionalization of Islamic Mysticism","authors":"Nile Green","doi":"10.1163/22105956-12341332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48670486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Remainder of Adam’s Clay","authors":"Ali Karjoo-Ravary","doi":"10.1163/22105956-bja10015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-bja10015","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article presents an introduction to and a complete English translation of the eighth chapter of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) magnum opus al-Futūḥāt al-makkiyya. The chapter, entitled, “On the earth that was made from the remainder of Adam’s leaven clay, which is the Earth of Reality, and on some of the strange and wondrous things contained therein,” contains a description of a world wholly separate from our own. An underlying argument in this chapter is that the human intellect, constrained as it is by the categories of possibilities which pertain to our earthly configuration, is incapable of grasping the vast expanse of this “Earth of Reality.” Ibn al-ʿArabī also aims to show how many of the Qur’anic and Prophetic traditions which the intellect struggles to comprehend exist in this other world without any contradiction. In this sense, the chapter in question seeks to inculcate a sense of wonder and bewilderment in readers, reminding them that there will always be worlds, beyond our immediate sensory world, that remain to be seen and known.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49340039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nearness to the Real","authors":"Arthur G. Schechter","doi":"10.1163/22105956-BJA10012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-BJA10012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article presents the theory of sainthood found in the writings of Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī (d. 751/1350), a major commentator on the Sufi thought of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240). Building on previous philosophical interpretations of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought to systematize the worldview now known as the “Oneness of Being” (waḥdat al-wujūd), Qayṣarī also developed a sophisticated theory of sainthood that not only described, but explained in detail what a saint was, how to become one, and what made the methods for doing so effective. After a historical introduction, I examine the principles of Qayṣarī’s hagiology in the broader context of his worldview, with special attention to his innovative use of philosophical language. Finally, my analysis of the spiritual path in Qayṣarī’s writings shows the consistency with which his account of Sufi wayfaring reflects these principles, according to which the acquisition of sainthood was a journey from the particular to the universal.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43021090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn al-ʿArabī in the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī, written by Mukhtar H. Ali","authors":"Cyrus Ali Zargar","doi":"10.1163/22105956-12341326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43397631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sainthood and Authority in Early Islam: Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī’s Theory of wilāya and the Reenvisioning of the Sunni Caliphate, written by Aiyub Palmer","authors":"Juan Cole","doi":"10.1163/22105956-12341324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44022143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eternity Made Temporal","authors":"Muhammad U. Faruque","doi":"10.1163/22105956-bja10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-bja10009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study investigates the Deobandī engagement with classical Sufi thought through the writings of one of modern South Asia’s most influential Sufi thinkers, namely Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī (d. 1943). The article brings to focus Thānavī’s contributions to South Asian Sufism by showing how he sought to preserve, defend, revive, and disseminate classical Sufi teachings in a climate of social reform. The article documents how Deobandī scholars such as Thānavī – far from being propagators of shallow fundamentalist discourses – immersed themselves in the ocean of some of the most sophisticated strands of Islamic learning such as Sufi metaphysics that often employ rational methods of argumentation, alongside symbols and imageries to articulate complex metaphysical doctrines in both prose and poetry.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64560802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Replacing Sharīʿa, Ṭarīqa and Ḥaqīqa with Fiqh, Akhlāq and Tawḥīd","authors":"SeyedAmirhossein Asghari","doi":"10.1163/22105956-bja10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-bja10010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Shaykh Muḥammad Bahārī (1265/1849–1325/1907), aside from being a Shīʿite cleric (mujtahid), was a scholar and follower of Sufism. He was a disciple of Mullā Ḥusayn-Qulī Hamadānī (1239/1824–1311/1894) in ʿirfān (gnosis) in the Shīʿī seminary. In his treatise on spiritual wayfaring, Tadhkirat al-muttaqīn, Bahārī represents a triad of jurisprudence (fiqh), ethics (akhlāq) and monotheism (tawhīd). In his terms, fiqh is an introduction to ʿamal (practice), practice is an introduction to the refinement of character (tahdhīb akhlāq), and akhlāq is an initial step to tawḥīd (the assertion of God’s unity). This paper examines the intersection of Shīʿī and Sufi spiritual movements within the Shīʿī seminary. It demonstrates that Bahārī sought to reframe mystical thought to present it as more acceptable to the Shīʿī seminary, which was characterized by rigid interpretations of Islamic law. This paper also studies the development of the Ẕahabiyya esoteric school within the Shīʿī seminary by tracing the Sufi chain of Bahārī and his masters.","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64560808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repentance and the Return to God: Tawba in Early Sufism, written by Atif Khalil","authors":"Mukhtar H. Ali","doi":"10.1163/22105956-12341323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37993,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sufi Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42580818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}