Publication
Imprint: Oxford, England : Oneworld Publications, 1999. Context: Originally published London ; New York : Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1993. Series: Heritage of Sufism (3). Responsibility: Edited by Leonard Lewisohn and David O. Morgan ; with a foreword by Javad Nurbakhsh and introduction by S.H. Nasr. OCLC Number: TOC 950030309, 44271238. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxviii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, indexes.
Call number
History / Lewis / vol 3
ISBN
1851681930 / 9781851681938
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CSS Library Notes
Description: This final volume of The Heritage of Sufism celebrates the mystical culture and intellectual life of sixteenth to eighteenth-century Iran and India, an age characterized by a flowering of Persianate culture which marked the peak of Muslim political power in the region. -- from back cover
Table of Contents:
Introduction.
The place of the school of Isfahan in Islamic philosophy and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr --
Persianate Sufism in historical perspective.
Rethinking Safavid Shi'ism / David Morgan ;
Western encounters with Persian Sufi literature / Farhang Jahanpour --
Sufism and society in Safavid Persia.
Sufism and the school of Isfahan : Tasawwuf and 'Irfan in late Safavid Iran ('Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji and Fayd-i Kashani on the relation of Tasawwuf, Hikmat and 'Irfan) / Leonard Lewisohn ;
Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia : arguments over the permissibility of singing (Ghina') / Andrew J. Newman ;
The Ni'matu'llahi order under Safavid suppression and in Indian exile / Terry Graham ; Rewriting Ni'matu'llahi history in Safavid chronicles / Sholeh A. Quinn --
Sufism & Ishraqi & Akbarian philosophy.
Suhrawardi's heir? : the Ishraqi philosophy of Mir Damad / Ian Richard Netton ;
Travelling the Sufi path: a Chishti handbook from Bijapur / William C. Chittick ;
The influence of Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine of the unity of being on the transcendental theosophy of Sadr al-Din Shirazi / Muhammad Reza Juzi --
Esoteric movements & contemplative disciplines.
Isma'ili-Sufi relations in early post-Alamut and Safavid Persia / Farhad Daftary ;
The Rawshaniyya : a Sufi movement on the Mughal tribal periphery / Sergei Andreyev ;
Contemplating sacred history in late Mughal Sufism : the case of Shah Wali Allah of Dehli / Marcia K. Hermansen ;
Chishti meditation practices of the later Mughal period / Carl W. Ernst --
Persianate Sufism in India, central Asia & China.
The role of the Sufis in the changing society of the Deccan, 1500-1750 / M. Z. A. Shakeb ;
Sufi texts in Chinese / Sachiko Murata ; The Yasavi order and Persian hagiography in seventeenth-century central Asia : 'Alim Shaykh of 'Aliyabad and his Lamahat min nafahat al-quds / Devin DeWeese --
Persianate Sufi poetry in Iran & India.
The vernacular tradition in Persianate Sufi poetry in Mughal India / Annemarie Schimmel ;
Persian poetry and Qadiri Sufism in later Mughal India : Ghanimat Kunjahi and his Mathnawi-yi Nayrang-i 'ishq / Christopher Shackle ;
Symbolism and symmetry : shaykh Manjhan's Madhumalti revisited / Simon Weightman ;
The imagery of annihilation (Fana') in the poetry of Sa'ib Tabrizi / Heideh Ghomi.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction.
The place of the school of Isfahan in Islamic philosophy and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr --
Persianate Sufism in historical perspective.
Rethinking Safavid Shi'ism / David Morgan ;
Western encounters with Persian Sufi literature / Farhang Jahanpour --
Sufism and society in Safavid Persia.
Sufism and the school of Isfahan : Tasawwuf and 'Irfan in late Safavid Iran ('Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji and Fayd-i Kashani on the relation of Tasawwuf, Hikmat and 'Irfan) / Leonard Lewisohn ;
Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia : arguments over the permissibility of singing (Ghina') / Andrew J. Newman ;
The Ni'matu'llahi order under Safavid suppression and in Indian exile / Terry Graham ; Rewriting Ni'matu'llahi history in Safavid chronicles / Sholeh A. Quinn --
Sufism & Ishraqi & Akbarian philosophy.
Suhrawardi's heir? : the Ishraqi philosophy of Mir Damad / Ian Richard Netton ;
Travelling the Sufi path: a Chishti handbook from Bijapur / William C. Chittick ;
The influence of Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine of the unity of being on the transcendental theosophy of Sadr al-Din Shirazi / Muhammad Reza Juzi --
Esoteric movements & contemplative disciplines.
Isma'ili-Sufi relations in early post-Alamut and Safavid Persia / Farhad Daftary ;
The Rawshaniyya : a Sufi movement on the Mughal tribal periphery / Sergei Andreyev ;
Contemplating sacred history in late Mughal Sufism : the case of Shah Wali Allah of Dehli / Marcia K. Hermansen ;
Chishti meditation practices of the later Mughal period / Carl W. Ernst --
Persianate Sufism in India, central Asia & China.
The role of the Sufis in the changing society of the Deccan, 1500-1750 / M. Z. A. Shakeb ;
Sufi texts in Chinese / Sachiko Murata ; The Yasavi order and Persian hagiography in seventeenth-century central Asia : 'Alim Shaykh of 'Aliyabad and his Lamahat min nafahat al-quds / Devin DeWeese --
Persianate Sufi poetry in Iran & India.
The vernacular tradition in Persianate Sufi poetry in Mughal India / Annemarie Schimmel ;
Persian poetry and Qadiri Sufism in later Mughal India : Ghanimat Kunjahi and his Mathnawi-yi Nayrang-i 'ishq / Christopher Shackle ;
Symbolism and symmetry : shaykh Manjhan's Madhumalti revisited / Simon Weightman ;
The imagery of annihilation (Fana') in the poetry of Sa'ib Tabrizi / Heideh Ghomi.
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Physical description
xxviii, 548 p.; 22 cm
Description
This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India
Language
Original language
English