Ranks of the Divine Seekers

A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51096-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, 910 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g

Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)

This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madarij al-Salikin. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abu Isma'il of Herat, Madarij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qur'anic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self (fana') and subsist (baqa') in God. The translator, Ovamir ('Uwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anjum, Ovamir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Translation Notes

Translator’s Introduction

1 Madarij and Its Author

2 The Formation of Sufism

3 Sufism and Antinomianism

4 Sufism and Mysticism

5 Defining Sufism

6 Al-Harawi and Manazil

7 Madarij’s Reverential Critique of Manazil

8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fana?)

9 Causality and Ethics

10 The Problem of Epistemology

11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path

12 Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madarij al-Salikin: Text and Translation

Prolegomenon

1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qur?an, The Opening

2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity

3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes

4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance

5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies

6 Refutation of Heresies

7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help”

1 The Stations of the Journey

1 The Station of Awakening

2 The Station of Insight

3 The Station of Purpose

4 The Station of Resolve

5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations

2 The Station of Reflection

1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation

2 Three Types of Annihilation

3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation

4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation

5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism

6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous

3 The Station of Self-Reckoning

1 The First Pillar

2 The Second Pillar

3 The Third Pillar

4 The Station of Repentance

1 Repentance and The Opening

2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance

3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins

4 The Inner Realities of Repentance

5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance

8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality

9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners

10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance

11 The Full Meaning of Repentance

12 Sins: The Object of Repentance

13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qur?an

14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and Repentance

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ovamir Anjum, Ph.D. (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor and Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Toledo. His publications include numerous articles and a monograph Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2012).