Method and mysticism : cosmos, nature, and environment in Islamic mysticism

by Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi

Paperback, 2011

Publication

Imprint: Louisville, Kentucky : Fons Vitae, 2011. Responsibility: Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi. OCLC Number: 769429733. Physical: Text : 1 volume : viii, 104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index.

Call number

Commentary / Mesba

Barcode

BK-07724

ISBN

9781891785863

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Religious Studies

CSS Library Notes

Description: In this pioneering work, Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi offers a new methodology for approaching Islamic mystical concepts by examining the importance, place and manifestation of the concepts of cosmos, nature and environment in Islamic mysticism. The study presents a framework for understanding the exoteric and esoteric dimensions of these concepts, within selected stations (maqamat) of the mystical path (tariqa), and how, in a reciprocal interaction, they weave a “symbiotic whole.”

This work also reexamines the concept of “mystical experience” with regards to the Islamic mystics’ approach toward the concepts of cosmos, nature and environment especially in the thoughts of great masters, such as Hallaj, Bayazid Bastami, Ghazali, Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi, Ibn ‘Arabi, Rumi, and Mulla Sadra. -- From Publisher

Table of Contents: Cosmos, nature and environment --
A Qur'anic doctrinal example --
Mystical texts and masters --
Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj --
Bayazid Bastami --
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali --
Ruzhihan Baqli Shirazi --
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi --
Jalal al-Din Rumi --
A stratospheric example --
Mystical Islam and the concept of constant re-creation (Khalq-i Mudam) --
Mulla Sadra and the "Transsubstantial Motion" (harakat al-jawharia) --
Islamic cosmic strata --
Examples from the natural and environmental symbols and allegories in Islamic mysticism --
The methodology --
The concept of return --
Tradition --
Sanctity --
Experience --
Man and cosmos in the experience of return.

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Physical description

viii, 104 p.; 21 cm

Description

In this pioneering work, Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi offers a new methodology for approaching Islamic mystical concepts by examining the importance, place, and manifestation of the concepts of cosmos, nature, and environment in Islamic mysticism. The study presents a framework for understanding the exoteric and esoteric dimensions of these concepts, within selected stations (maqamat of the mystical path tariqa), and how, in a reciprocal interaction, they weave a "symbiotic whole." This work also reexamines the concept of "mystical experience" with regards to the Islamic mystics' approach toward the concepts of cosmos, nature, and environment, especially in the thoughts of great masters, such as Hallaj, Bayazid Bastami, Ghazali, Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi, Ibn 'Arabi, Rumi, and Mulla Sadra.… (more)