Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for Suhraward Sufis,9780700716876

Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for Suhraward Sufis

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780700716876
ISBN10: 0700716874
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Pub. Date: 2002-12-06
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

This book examines the theological, philosophical and Islamic mystical dimensions of the Suhraward sufi order from the 13th to 15th centuries. The Suhrawards were a legally grounded and intellectually vibrant sufi order whose mystical path was based on exchanges and debates on the Qur'an and on the Prophet's customs. The book analyses their interpretation of sacred texts: the Qur'an, hadiths, sunna, and malfuzat. This created a unique self-understanding, which developed specific sufi spiritual exercises. The book discusses new important ways of thinking about the sufi hermeneutics of the Qur'an and its contribution to Islamic intellectual and spiritual life.

Table of Contents

List of plates
x
Acknowledgments xi
Transliteration notes xiii
Introduction: striving for divine union: spiritual exercises for Suhrawardhi sufis 1(3)
Suhrawardi studies
4(2)
Why study the Suhrawardi sufis?
6(1)
The goal of this book
7(6)
The life of Shaikh `Abu Hafs `Umar al-Suhrawardi
13(28)
Islamic education: a Hanbali scholar and sufi
14(4)
Shaikh al-Islam and political statesman under Caliph al-Nasir
18(1)
Caliph al-Nasir's involvement with futuwwa groups
19(11)
Political and diplomatic trips
30(5)
Shaikh al-Suhrawardi's relationship with the Nizari Ismailis
35(6)
`Awarif al-Maarif: the sufi manual of Shaikh `Abu Hafs `Umar al-Suhrawardi
41(42)
The sufi background of Shaikh `Abu Hafs `Umar al-Suhrawardi
42(2)
Shaikh `Abu Hafs `Umar al-Suhrawardi: `Awarif al-Ma'arif
44(1)
The tasawwuf of Shaikh al-Suhrawardi
45(11)
Shaikh al-Suhrawardi on prayers
56(3)
Explanations of spirituality (ruhaniyyat)
59(1)
Knowledge of the spirit and soul
60(2)
On proper etiquette -- adab
62(10)
Practicing the art of patience -- sabr
72(4)
Poverty and asceticism -- faqr wa zuhd
76(7)
Sacred identities in the Suhrawardiyya order
83(26)
Religious identities and rituals
83(6)
Characteristics of Suhrawardi sacred identities
89(1)
Historical panegyric poetry
90(2)
The sacred identity and sacred place of hadiths with sufi poetry
92(2)
Nat'iyya poetry as a source of imagery
94(6)
The prophet as the intercessor in sufi nat'iyya poetry
100(1)
Suhrawardiyya dhikr rituals
101(8)
The Suhrawardiyya silsila in Multan and Ucch
109(28)
Suhrawardi sources
109(6)
Suhrawardi silsila genealogy from the Prophet Muhammad
115(1)
Suhrawardi shaikhs in Multan (thirteenth to fourteenth centuries)
116(2)
State politics and Suhrawardi sufis
118(1)
The Suhrawardiyya silsila under Sultan Iltutmish
119(6)
The clash of Shaikh Rukn al-din and Aiba Kishlu's rebellion
125(4)
The Suhrawardiyya silsila expansion into Ucch
129(8)
Multani Suhrawardi tasawwuf spiritual exercises
137(36)
Suhrawardi tasawwuf
137(9)
Tasawwuf exercises
146(2)
Purifying the heart
148(5)
Khulasat al-'Arifin and Al-Award texts
153(4)
The practice of spiritual exercises -- dhikr
157(7)
Salutations for Shaikh al-Suhrawardi's death celebration -- `urs
164(5)
Salutations to Shaikh as-Sufiyya wa Shaikh al-Islam -- Shaikh `Abu Hafs `Umar al-Suhrawardi
169(1)
Katam Sharif Khajghan silsila Suhrawardiyya (rahmat Allah alah)
170(3)
Appendix A Praises for God; Remembrance of prayers 173(4)
Appendix B Prayer for enlightenment; Prayer for shab-e barat 177(2)
Notes 179(20)
Bibliography 199(14)
Index 213

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