Visualizing Sufism

Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72968-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Islamicate Intellectual History

Visualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticism—Ibn al-'Arabi, Ahmad al-Buni, Sa'd al-Din Hamuyeh, al-Sha'rani—, and in intellectual networks—Hurufiyya and Bektashiyya, Shirin Maghribi and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history.

Contributors

Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martini, Giovanni Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Giovanni Maria Martini

1 Diagrams and Visionary Experience in al-Buni’s (d. 622/1225) La?a?if al-isharat fi al-?uruf al-?ulwiyat Noah Gardiner

2 Illustrating the Forms: Ibn al-?Arabi’s Images in al-Futu?at al-Makkiyya Ali Karjoo-Ravary

3 Visualizing the Architecture of the Universe: Ibn al-?Arabi’s (d. 638/1240) Diagrams in Chapter 371 of the Meccan Openings Sophie Tyser

4 Reading and Reciting the Qur?an: Calligraphic Spaces in Sa?d al-Din ?amuyeh’s (d. 649/1252) Kitab al-Ma?bub Elizabeth Alexandrin

5 Use of Diagrams in the ?urufi and Nuq?avi Manuscripts, and Possible Links between the ?urufi ‘Verbal’ and the Bektashi Visual Iconographies Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

6 Shirin Maghribi’s (d. 810/1407) Visual Sufism: Diagrams, Intellectual Networks, and the Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge in 14th Century Tabriz and beyond Giovanni Maria Martini

7 “Sensible Images”: Pictograms in the Manuscript Transmission of ?Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha?rani’s (d. 973/1565) al-Mizan al-kubra Evyn Kropf

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Maria Martini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Naples L’Orientale, is a research fellow at that university. His primary areas of interest are the history of Sufism, the history of the occult sciences in the Islamicate world, and Qur'anic Studies.

Contributors

Elizabeth Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.