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1. | Title | Title of document | References - A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | S.Z. Chowdhury; Independent Scholar; |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Islamic Studies |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami; Nishapur; Sufism; Prophet Muhammad; Islamic mysticism; nafs; isnad |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | Islamic Studies; Sufism |
6. | Description | Abstract | Abū cAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Sulamī (d.412/1021) lived in the 3rd and 4th century AH / 9th and 10th century CE. He was born in the city of Nīshāpūr, one of the most renowned cities in the Islamic world. He was part of a line of earlier Ṣūfī figures who attempted to defend the cardinal tenets of Sufism from accusations of heresy. However al-Sulamī’s surpassed his predecessors by amassing a corpus of antecedent mystical dicta from the architects of Islamic mysticism and substantiating them with transmission channels (isnad) or grounding them in a core teaching of the Prophet Muḥammad. This study demonstrates that al-Sulamī was an accomplished mystic. It outlines his life and times and surveys in full all his works as far as they can be identified. Moreover, the important sources that shaped the development and impression of his thinking and modality of transforming the ego-self (nafs) are presented in detail bringing together earlier and current academic scholarship on him. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Sep-2019 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/31694 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.31694 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; A Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Middle East, 9th and 10th Century CE |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |