Letters of a Sufi scholar : the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) / by Samer Akkach.
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TextLanguage: English, Arabic Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 74.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 534 pages) : mapContent type: - text
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- Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731 -- Correspondence
- Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731
- Sufis -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence
- Muslim scholars -- Syria -- Damascus -- Correspondence
- Soufis -- Syrie -- Damas -- Correspondance
- Savants musulmans -- Syrie -- Damas -- Correspondance
- RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi
- Muslim scholars
- Sufis
- Syria -- Damascus
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- BP80.N23 A643 2010eb
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Text in English and Arabic.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence -- The intellectual milieu -- The letters of the Wasā'il -- List and description -- Places, towns, and correspondents -- Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces -- Content and significance -- On understanding Islam: letter 1 -- On struggle (jihād): letter 3 -- On causality: letter 4 -- On solitude: letters 6 and 10 -- On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14 -- On smoking: letter 25 -- On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62 -- On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters.
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For the first time, this book presents the original Arabic texts of a ~Abd al-GhanA al-NAbulusAa (TM)s letters, along with selected translations and fresh insights into the culture of correspondence, postal history, and main theological debates in the early modern period of Islam.
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