Sufi Cosmology

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-38982-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 154/2, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East / Handbook of Sufi Studies

This volume discusses the origin and structure of the universe in mystical Islam (Sufism) with special reference to parallel realms of existence and their interaction. Contributors address Sufi ideas about the fate of human beings in this and future life under three rubrics: (1) cosmogony and eschatology (“where do we come from?” and “where do we go?”); (2) conceptualizations of the world of the here-and-now (“where are we now?”); and (3) visualizations of realms of existence, their hierarchy and mutual relationships (“where are we in relation to other times and places?”).

Contributors are Christian Lange, Alexander Knysh, Noah Gardiner, Stephen Hirtenstein, Saeko Yazaki, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Leah Kinberg, Sara Sviri, Munjed M. Murad, Simon O’Meara, Pierre Lory, Mathieu Terrier, Michael Ebstein, Binyamin Abrahamov and Frederick Colby.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lange, Christian

Knysh, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: What Is Sufi Cosmology?

Christian Lange and Alexander Knysh

Part 1: Sufi Cosmogony and Eschatology

1 Cosmo-Eschatology in Sufi Thought and Practice

Noah Gardiner

2 Cosmogonic Myths in Sufism

Stephen Hirtenstein

3 Classes of Beings in Sufism

Saeko Yazaki

4 Sufi Views on Time and History

Jean-Jacques Thibon

5 Sufi Views of Life in the Grave

Leah Kinberg

6 Paradise in Sufi Thought

Christian Lange

7 Hell in Sufi Thought

Christian Lange

Part 2: Sufi Views of the World

8 Zuhd in Islamic Mysticism

Sara Sviri

9 Sufi Views of Nature

Munjed M. Murad

10 Mecca and Other Cosmological Centres in the Sufi Universe

Simon O’Meara

11 Macrocosm and Microcosm in Sufi Thought

Pierre Lory

12 The Cosmo-Eschatology of Saints and Mahdis

Noah Gardiner

Part 3: Levels of Being in Sufi Thought

13 Sufi Hierarchies of the Worlds or Levels of Existence: Mulk, Malakut, Jabarut, and Related Concepts

Mathieu Terrier

14 Emanation (Fayd) in Classical Islamic Mysticism

Michael Ebstein

15 Levels of Being in Sufi Thought

Richard Todd

16 Imagination in Islamic Mystical Philosophy: The Eschatological and Ontological Case

Binyamin Abrahamov

17 Otherworldly Journeys in Pre-Modern Sufism

Frederick Colby

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University and Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies. His research focuses on premodern Islamic intellectual and cultural history, particularly in the areas of Islamic eschatology, Islamic law and legal theory, Islamic mysticism, and the Muslim sensorium.

Alexander Knysh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan and Director of an Islamic studies project at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He specializes in Sufism, Qur’anic studies, Muslim theological, philosophical and juridical thought, and modern Islamic movements in comparative perspective.