Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism (Islamic History and Civilization)

Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism (Islamic History and Civilization)

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Book Description
Fritz Meier (1912-1998) is one of the most outstanding Orientalists of this century. His publications combine masterful philological method and precision, profound and penetrating textual interpretation, and a wide-ranging familiarity with primary sources which may truly be characterized as phenomenal. Among the numerous fields in which he has undertaken original research, Persian poetry and Islamic mysticism (Sufism) in the widest sense stand out in particular. His work on Sufism covers the whole of the Islamic world and Islamic history from its beginnings up to the 20th century.

The present provides for the first time a translation of 15 of Fritz Meier's seminal articles. The selected articles deal with the history of Sufism; Sufi morals and practices such as dhikr and samâ‘; the historical development of the master-disciple relationship; Ibn Taymiyya's attitude toward Sufism; pious devotional practices such as making use of the tasliya; essential sources for the history of Sufism in the Maghreb and the Almoravids.

Extensive indices facilitate the use of this epoch-making work.

About the Author
John O'Kane, B.A. (1963) in Classics, Princeton University, is an independent scholar. He also translated The Secrets of God's Mystical Oneness (Mazda, 1992).

Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism (Islamic History and Civilization),Fritz Meier,John O'Kane,Brill Academic Publishers,9004108653,History,Interior Design - General,Islam,Islam - General,Religion,Religion - World Religions,Sufism

Book Contents:

1. Essence of Blue
2. Ethnicity and the Bible
3. Evliya Celebis Anatolienreise: Aus Dem Dritten Band Des Seyahatname (Aus Dem Dritten Band Des Seyahatname)
4. Ezekiel and the Leaders of Israel (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)
5. Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, Vol 7)
6. Generation X Builds a Dream House
7. Hayagriva in South India: Complexity and Selectivity of a Pan-Indian Hindu Deity (Brill's Indological Library,)
8. Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting: A Comparative Survey of Non-Masoretic Hebrew Dialects and Traditions : Part Two, Phonetics and Phonology, Part T (Studies ... Languages and Linguistic , No 16, Part 2&3)
9. Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (Studies in the History of Religions)
10. Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of a Monarch-Bishop (Supplements to Vigiliae Chris)

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