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Subject(s)

• Sufism [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy [Browse]
• Arabic language—Translating into English [Browse]
• Persian language—Translating into English [Browse]

Editor

• Rustom, Mohammed [Browse]

Honoree

• Chittick, William C. [Browse]
• Murata, Sachiko, 1943- [Browse]

Series

• Islamic history and civilization ; v. 202. [More in this series]
• Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 202 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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, and in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically astute and analytically sound 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 these disciplines (in Arabic, Persian, and Chinese), demonstrating just how important the functions of philology and cross-cultural translation are when studying pre-modern cultures and civilizations"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

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Contents

• Foreword / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Notes on the Contributors
• Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
• Part I. Sufism in Persianate Contexts: 1. ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian / Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom
• 2. The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī / Kazuyo Murata
• 3. Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil / Ali Karjoo-Ravary
• 4. Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light / Shankar Nair
• 5. Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn's Makhzan-i ʻirfān / Maria Massi Dakake
• Part II. The Akbarian Tradition: 6. Some Notes on Ibn ʻArabī's Correlative Prophetology / Gregory Vandamme
• 7. Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) / Alireza Pharaa
• 8. Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī's Nafaḥāt / Justin Cancelliere
• 9. Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʻArabī's Lettrist Cosmogony / Matthew Melvin-Koushki
• 10. Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light / Marlene DuBois
• 11. Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God's Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt) / Naser Dumairieh
• 12. The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim / Omar Edaibat
• 13. A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya) / Oludamini Ogunnaike
• Part III. Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology: 14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʻili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw / Khalil Andani
• 15. The Necessity of the Return (al-maʻād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 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: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood / Muhammad U. Faruque
• 18. Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context / Sayeh Meisami
• 19. Asad Allāh Qazwīnī's Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa / Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari
• Part IV. 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 maʻrifa: Adam's Encounter with Hell in Paradise / Mohammed Mehdi Ali
• 24. A Supplication for God's Mercy on the Day of ʻArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʻī al-Muʼayyad al-Shīrāzī / Tahera Qutbuddin
• 25. Made in God's Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (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.

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ISBN

• 9789004529021 (hardcover)
• 9004529020 (hardcover)

LCCN

2022048693

OCLC

1347259249

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