...Pavel V. Basharin Abstract This article examines the story of Iblīs’s disobedience in early Sufism. The motif of justifying and condemning Satan is a characteristic feature of the ideological heritage of some Sufis. The first Sufi line estimates Satan as a sufferer and a sacrifice of God’s...

...John J. Curry Political involvement on the part of prominent Sufi leaders was also checked by the rise of puritanical Muslim reform movements throughout the Ottoman domains. These movements have been broadly subsumed under the term Kadızâdeli , which describes the followers of Kadızâde Mehmed...

...Matthew B. Lynch 3 Moin al-din was a Seljuk vizier who later worked as a vassal in Konya for the Mongol rulers. See Hillenbrand, “Muʿīn Al-Dīn Sulaymān Parwāna.” 4 Aflaki, Feats , 207 . 5 Cf. Peacock, “Sufis and the Seljuk Court.” 6 Cf. Wolper, Cities and Saints...

... , prepared by Güldaş Ayhan . Ankara : Ministry of Culture , 1996 . ʻAttār Farid ad-Din . Farid ad-Din ʻAttār’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis , translated by Losensky Paul . New York : Paulist , 2009 . Emre Yunus . The City of the Heart: Yunus...

...-Kāshānī, al-Rāzī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021)]—acquired through Divine inspiration rather than through human effort [Abū l-Qāsim al-Qushayrī (d. 465/1072)]” ( tsq , 751). Based on verse 65, Sufis developed the technical term ʿilm ladunnī , meaning knowledge acquired through “unveiling...

... of buying and selling. This is in contrast to the activities of the church and even the monastic groups, or tariqas in the case of Sufi orders, that survive the death of their often more austere founders. Yet I argue here that even mysticism could be shaped by the forces of economic exchange...

... by Sufi orders, which feature chanting and dancing set to sacred music. In this dream vision, McKay also samples Moroccan soundscapes that are closely affiliated with the Afro-Oriental diasporic currents embodied by Aslima’s lost mother and father. In particular, McKay combines imagery and rhythms...

... discipleships under Abdul Rahim Qalandar Saffapuri and also Sheikh Ghiyasuddin, two Sufi masters in Kashmir. Professionally, Mahjur spent a large part of his life working as one of the few Muslim bureaucrats under the repressive Dogra rule. His dealings were mostly with the department of agriculture and revenue...

....” The idea that one seeks and can achieve perfection, or knowledge of the divine, through study of holy texts and the perfection of the soul echoes a Sufi belief found in the work of medieval Andalusi thinkers, such as the early thirteenth-century Ibn ‘Arabi, whose ideal of the “perfect man” ( al-insān al...

... Garcia De Orta and Thomas Bowrey, see Breen, Age of Intoxication , 98–104 ; da Costa, Medicine ; and Mills, Cannabis Britannica , 18–32 . On bhang use among warrior Sufis in Deccan courts, see Eaton, Sufis of Bijapur , 255–70 . 4 Mills, Madness Cannabis and Colonialism . 5...

... on the Sufi influence on both Carmelite mysticism and Goytisolo, while others like Stanley Black, Bradley S. Epps, and Paul Julian Smith have shifted their emphasis to the specter of AIDS that also runs the course of the novel. 5 What is more, any reference to John of the Cross in this body of scholarship...

..., a medieval Ottoman Islamic scholar. For Durak, however, who traces the origins of the story of Abraham as it was told in the Sufi tradition to a particular Jewish text, the payoff of comparison lies in those places where parts of the Hebrew Bible and midrashic stories about Abraham surface and recede...

..., Kashmiri women dancers or hafizas were considered charming women who danced to Sufi music. 7 Kashmiri music absorbed influences from Iran, Arabia, Samarkand, and Tashqand during Muslim rule. Under Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin’s patronage, the arts, including music and dance, flourished, aided by Sufi...

... of contemplating sunlight in a bowl of olive oil, also discussed by Moses de León.) 43 Although I am unable to find a reference to eyeball indentation in the Sufi and Christian mystical literature with which I am familiar, others may be more successful. For now, we remain in the dark as to the origin...

... annihilation of the self as a way to become a mirror for the divine, to mirror the divine, and to give one’s body to what is beyond form can be re-presented by means of Sufi terminology. To mirror the image of another and to assume another’s name is a way to empty the self of the self, opening up...

... a eu des m o rts , qu'on n'a pas dénom b ré ju sq u 'à présent . . . " Visages p u blique s du Sénégal, in te rvie w w ith M a dior Diop, 192-194. 53 Infin ite, all-encom passing light, is a re curre nt Sufi m e taph or: in W o lo f Sufi po etry, G od's q u a lity o f in fin ite oneness is re c u rre n...

... " (165). A n o th e r black n a tio n a list is the rea l-life la b o r org a n ize r Sufi A b d u l H a m id th e tu rb a n -d o n n in g le a d e r o f a p s e u d o -m y s tic a l " S u fis t" s e c t w h o m th e no ve l d e s c rib e s at one p o in t as a "b la c k B u d d h a " (1 6 5 ).29 T he...