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Letters of a Sufi scholar : the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akkach, Samer
Other Authors: Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, 1641-1731
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 74.
Subjects:
Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl, > 1641-1731 > Correspondence.
Sufis > Syria > Damascus > Correspondence.
Muslim scholars > Syria > Damascus > Correspondence.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.