Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus : 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731

Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus : 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731 /

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts. At the popular level, he has been read as an interpreter of symbolic dreams. Moreo...

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Main Author: Sirriyeh, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2004
Series:Routledge Sufi series.
Subjects:
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, > 1641-1731.
Sufis > Syria > Biography.
Sufism > Syria > Damascus > History.
Sufism > Doctrines.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. The making of a scholarly saint
  • The birth of a saint
  • A family of lawyers
  • A scholar in training
  • Encounters with sufi books
  • Praising the prophet
  • The journey to Istanbul and Qādirî initiation
  • 2. The spiritual son of Ibn 'Arabī
  • In the steps of the Great Master
  • 'Lordly Revelation'
  • Wahdat al-wujūd and the problem of sin
  • Sound doctrine post-Ibn 'Arabī
  • Unbelief in this world and the afterlife
  • Faith and the sinful saint
  • 3. The Naqshabandī recluse
  • Abd al-Ghanī, the Naqshabandī
  • Mujaddidī connections
  • Divine love, platonic love, gay love?
  • The seven-year retreat
  • A voice from the unseen world
  • 4. Interpreter of true dreams
  • 'The two worlds are one'
  • The dreaming of a saint
  • Messages from the 'world of truth'
  • Dreaming in symbols, predicting the future
  • The Perfuming of Humankind
  • An encyclopaedia of God's signs
  • Dreams of mosques, shrines and holy cities
  • Dreams of prophets and caliphs, of scorpions and spiders
  • 5. Solitude in a crowd
  • 'Outwardly in the world'
  • The pure gold of a Lebanese journey
  • Travels in a wild and sacred land
  • Turks, Jews and Christians
  • Events of 1693
  • The longest journey
  • Nābulusî and the rulers
  • 6. 'A new kind of mystical travel-literature'
  • Nābulusī's mystical rihlas
  • Sufi elements in earlier rihlas
  • Men of the tarīqas
  • Encounters with ecstatics
  • Dreams of the righteous
  • Holy graves
  • Sufi saints of southern palestine
  • At the tombs of Ibn 'Arabī and Ibn al-Fārid
  • 7. Last years in Sālihiyya, 1707-1731
  • Conclusion: 'The illustrious mystic' and 'sultan of the learned'
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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