Jihad in premodern Sufi writings /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication; Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Dates; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Greater and#x0;Lesser Jihads; The Practical Role of#x0;Sufis in#x0;Islamic Society; Are Sufis Mystics?; Aims and#x0;Motivations of#x0;the#x0;Book; Methodology; Notes; Chapter 2: Overview of#x0;the#x0;History of#x0;Sufi Studies; The First European Studies Concerning Sufism; Persian Poetry and#x0;Western Sufi Scholarship; Sufi Texts and#x0;Western Sufi Scholarship; The Greater Jihad in#x0;Contemporary Western Sufi Scholarship; Sufi Scholarship in#x0;the#x0;Contemporary Islamic World.
- Orientalists and#x0;the#x0;Misrepresentation of#x0;SufismSufi Zeal for#x0;the#x0;Martial Jihad; The Complementary Nature of#x0;the#x0;Two Aspects of#x0;Jihad; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Islamic Scripture and#x0;the#x0;Doctrine of#x0;Jihad; The Qur'an in#x0;Islam; Abrogation; Hadith and#x0;the#x0;Islamic Scriptural Tradition; Biography (Sira) and#x0;Military Campaign Narratives; Islam, Muslims, and#x0;Salam; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: The Concept of#x0;Spiritual Jihad in#x0;Learned Sufi Texts; Jihad and#x0;Mujahada in#x0;the#x0;Sufi Tradition; What Sufis Have Said About Mujahada; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Martial Jihad in#x0;Learned Sufi Texts.
- The Complementary Nature of#x0;Jihad in#x0;Premodern Sufi WritingsSufi Tafsir; The Complementary Nature of#x0;Jihad in#x0;Sufi Treatises; Sufi Exhortations Regarding the#x0;Martial Jihad; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Representations of#x0;Jihad in#x0;Sufi Hagiography and#x0;Poetry; Sufi Hagiography; Sufi Poetry; The Demarcation of#x0;Mujahada and#x0;Jihad in#x0;Sufi Hagiography; The Struggle with#x0;the#x0;Lower Self in#x0;Sufi Hagiography; Mujahada in#x0;Sufi Poetry; The Martial Jihad and#x0;Ghazw in#x0;Sufi Hagiography and#x0;Poetry; Jihad and#x0;Warfare in#x0;Sufi Hagiography; Abu Ishaq al-Kazaruni; Warfare in#x0;Tadhkirat al-awliya'
- Other Depictions of#x0;Sufis as#x0;Warriors in#x0;Early HagiographyJihad and#x0;Warfare in#x0;Sufi Poetry; Notes; Chapter 7: Historical Role of#x0;Sufis in#x0;Military Endeavors; Shaykh Arslan al-Dimashqi and#x0;the#x0;Second Crusade; Al-Shadhili and#x0;the#x0;Battle of#x0;al-Mansura; Najm al-Din Kubra and#x0;the#x0;Mongol Conquest of#x0;Khwarazm; Aq Shams al-Din and#x0;the#x0;Ottoman Conquest of#x0;Constantinople; Baba Palangpush and#x0;the#x0;Role of#x0;the#x0;Naqshbandi Sufi Order in#x0;Mughal India; Notes; Conclusion; Appendix A: Anecdotes Regarding#x0;Sufis and#x0;Warfare from#x0;Hagiography; From Hilyat al-awliya'; Ibrahim al-Adham; Abd Allah b. al-Mubarak.
- From Tadhkirat al-awliya'Malik al-Dinar; Shaqiq al-Balkhi; Abd Allah b. al-Mubarak; Ahmad Khidravayh-i Balkhi; Bayazid-i Bastami; From Hazar Hikayat-i Sufiyan; The First Tale; The Second Tale; The Eighth Tale; The Tenth Tale; From Firdaws al-murshidiyya; From Nafahat al-uns; From Thamarat al-quds; Appendix B: Some Notes on#x0;Form-Three Verbal Nouns in#x0;Arabic; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Primary Sources in Arabic and Persian; Secondary Sources in Arabic and Persian; Secondary Sources in European Languages; Index.