Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation

Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52902-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 202, 558 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically sound and analytically rigorous expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese texts in these disciplines, demonstrating just how important careful reading and responsible translation methods are to the study of pre-modern worldviews.

Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rustom, Mohammed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Contributors

Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata

Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts

1 ?Ayn al-Qu?at’s Tamhidat: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian

Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom

2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rumi

Kazuyo Murata

3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bidil

Ali Karjoo-Ravary

4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light

Shankar Nair

5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nu?rat Amin’s Makhzan-i ?irfan

Maria Massi Dakake

Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition

6 Some Notes on Ibn ?Arabi’s Correlative Prophetology

Gregory Vandamme

7 Beautiful-Doing (i?san) as the Station of No Station (maqam la maqam) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil)

Alireza Pharaa

8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qunawi’s Nafa?at

Justin Cancelliere

9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ?Arabi’s Lettrist Cosmogony

Matthew Melvin-Koushki

10 Jami and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light

Marlene DuBois

11 Al-Qushashi and al-Kurani on the Unity of God’s Attributes (wa?dat al-?ifat)

Naser Dumairieh

12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abu Bakr b. Salim

Omar Edaibat

13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa’s Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Man?uma lil-i??ila? al-?ufiyya)

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology

14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Isma?ili Hermeneutics of ?alat according to al-Sijistani and Na?ir-i Khusraw

Khalil Andani

15 The Necessity of the Return (al-ma?ad): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in A??awiyya 6–7

Davlat Dadikhuda

16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi’s Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies

Rosabel Ansari

17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shah Wali Allah and the End of Selfhood

Muhammad U. Faruque

18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context

Sayeh Meisami

19 Asad Allah Qazwini’s Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitab-i Walayat-i mu?laqa

Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari

Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation

20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation

Amer Latif

21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission

Mukhtar H. Ali

22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative

Laury Silvers

23 The Tao of ma?rifa: Adam’s Encounter with Hell in Paradise

Mohammed Mehdi Ali

24 A Supplication for God’s Mercy on the Day of ?Arafa by the Fatimid Chief da?i al-Mu?ayyad al-Shirazi

Tahera Qutbuddin

25 Made in God’s Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Surat al-Insan (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari

Yousef Casewit

26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher

Atif Khalil

Index of Names and Terms

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammed Rustom, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, is Professor of Islamic Thought at Carleton University and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His most recent book is entitled Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of 'Ayn al-Qudat (SUNY Press, 2023).