Publication Date
2004
Publication Place
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State University of New York Press
Subject
Wafā, Muḥammad, 1302 or 1303-1363., Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240., Sufism -- Egypt -- History., Muslim saints -- Egypt -- History.
Type
Book
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
246
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations, map
Library
University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID
1417575832 (electronic bk.), 9781417575831 (electronic bk.), 0791460118 (alk. paper), 9780791460115 (alk. paper), 0791460126 (pbk. ; alk. paper), 9780791485477
Record ID
b3102128
Library Location
In collection: Ebook Central Academic Complete UKI Edition
Date
2004
Sample Text
"Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Wafa's, a complete mystical worldview unfolds, one with a distinct doctrine of sainthood and a novel understanding of the apocalypse. Using almost entirely unedited manuscript sources, author Richard J.A. McGregor shows in detail how Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa' drew on earlier philosophical and gnostic currents to construct their own mystical theories and notes their debt to the Sufi order of the Shadhiliyya, the mystic al-Tirmidhi, and the great Sufi thinker Ibn 'Arabi. Notably, although located firmly within the Sunni tradition, the Wafa's felt free to draw on Shi'ite ideas for the construction of their own theory of the final great saint."--Jacket.
Bibliyografya
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and indexes.
Seri
SUNY series in Islam.
