Milani Milad
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1136818 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Milani Milad |
| NOMBRES | Milani |
| APELLIDO | Milad |
| FIRMA | MILAD M |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8680-8833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Sufi Controversy
This article revisits the Arberry- Zaehner polemic to highlight persisting problems in the academic study of Sufism. The controversy is important in showing how serious scholarship can quickly descend into tribal polemical apologetics and how this partisanship masquerades as legitimate research and academic comment. The study of Sufism, or sometimes referred to as “Sufi studies,” is enormously important for understanding Islam’s mystical traditio…
Mystical Knowledge and the Limits of Reason
This article offers a comparative study of the religious epistemologies of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas, highlighting their shared resistance to the overintellectualization of theology through Greek philosophical categories. Both thinkers critique the limitations of Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of knowledge, particularly their abstraction of the divine and the reduction of metaphysical inquiry to rational demonstration. Al-Gh…
Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson, 'Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson, Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 72, AUD $64.99, ISBN 9781009460118 (pbk)
Islamic Thought in the Mirror of Philosophy
Intellectual fascination with Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in the Islamicate world began with his introduction to its intellectuals in the 20th century. Since that time, notable intellectuals have drawn upon Heidegger’s philosophy to revise or reinforce the established values and beliefs of their time. Heidegger’s relationship to the Islamicate world has now been brought to the attention of the academic community as an area of study deserving of…
An Ontological Reading of Sufism
This article presents an ontological reading of Sufism in the style of Heidegger’s ontological examination of ancient philosophy. In this regard, it is a novel approach to the study of Sufism as a metaphysical conundrum within the Islamic context. The article explores what we mean by the nature of Sufism and the question of “being Sufi.” It does this for two reasons: to show the frontiers of metaphysical reasoning in Islamic intellectual history …
The Question of Origin and Beginning of Sufism
The question of origin and beginning of Sufism is problematical because the beginning obscures the origin. This statement, which draws on Heidegger’s philosophy of history, underpins the basis of the argument made in this article. We can say that Sufism began with Islam, since Sufi beliefs and practices developed from an initially ascetic and then gradually contemplative praxis that interpreted the Islamic canon in that light. Sufism is therefore…
What is Religious Studies
This address was given in-person at the 2023 annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion, hosted by the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. The purpose of the address was to raise the question about the fundamental aspects of our thinking about religion, and via this process of inquiry to underline the importance of our relationship to words, ideas, and their meaning. So as not t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Religions and Traditions
Thinking Religion in Place
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion (JASR) was founded—under the title of the Australian Religion Studies Review (ARSR)—some 35 years ago in 1988 and renamed in 2013. Now, the co-editors are relaunching the journal: this time, our name remains the same, but our song is changing. Our hope is to make the JASR distinctive in the religious studies publishing landscape. Although there are many high-quality journals in our field, we want to …
Islam, Civility and Political Culture
Modern Thinking in Islam
This special issue will begin by asking the question: just how critical is 'Islamic thinking' in the modern period? Which of the host of Muslim intellectuals throughout the period in question can we say have produced works that show ground-breaking progress in thinking about religion and society? Which of them, even in challenging the status quo, have surpassed conventional paradigms of the Islamicate world? This might seem an unfair, even extrem…
Shahab Ahmed and the Hermeneutics of Islam
In the posthumously published book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016), Shahab Ahmed (1966–2015) presented a new conceptualisation of Islam to address two points: to re-conceptualise Islam in terms of contradiction, and re-present what it meant to be Islamic as a challenge to existing conceptualisations. This article argues that Ahmed’s rethinking of Islam/Islamic is properly situated as a revivalist catholic hermeneutics, and …
Raphael Lataster
An Inquiry into the Nature of the Female Mystic and the Divine Feminine in Sufi Experience
This article is an inquiry into the nature of the female mystic and the divine feminine in Sufi experience. It considers this experience in the general sense with regard to the Sufi tradition, but in its analysis, the article primarily draws on examples from the classical period of Sufi history. Based on an analysis of the thought of key Sufi figures from that period, the assertion is made that the ground of the sacred is female and, as such, the…
Sufism
Reflections on an Academic Pursuit of Religion
The study of religion is a contested field of investigation that has for thepast two decades challenged my thinking on the subject. 'An unofficialphilosopher of religion who received his academic training from a historian'sums up my story as an accidental scholar of religion. On the whole,I see my work as a series of successive leaps, unbound by any one particularproject. As a mid-career academic, I am in the process of yet anotherleap, as it wer…
Quest for justice
This article examines Islamism as phenomenon and category in the context of the study of religion. It enquires about the experience of Islam in modernity at the juncture of Islam, justice, and civility in order to problematise the discourse on Islamism as political Islam. The argument is made that Islam is not a political religion, but a religion that has historically seen political power as part of its religious project. Further, that Islamism a…
Modern talking
This article shares the findings of a socio-political discourse analysis of modern Sufism. The study is conducted from the multi-disciplinary perspective of studies in religion, and is based on the assessment of one-on-one qualitative interviews about the approach of three prominent world Sufi orders—the Chishti, Naqshbandi, and Nimatullahi—to society and politics. The case studies present a new interpretation of modern Sufi religious and politic…
S hariati, A li
Ali Shariati was a significant ideologue of Iranian revolutionary thought. Shariati represented a distinct formulation of social and political thought that placed religion at its center. His academic career was marked by a unique arbitration of “original” and “protestant” Shi'ite Islam with a culturally sensitive modernization process. He remains an influential philosopher on the politics of religion and society.
Sufi Political Thought
Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historically as important civic and political actors in the Muslim world, having participated extensively in inter-faith dialogue and political challenges to religious orthodoxy. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Sufi political tradition, both historically and in its present form. It outlines h…
William GervaseClarence‐Smith
Sufism, spirituality and consumerism
Sufism in the Secret History of Persia
The Religious Landscape of Iranian Identity 1. The Macrohistorical Pursuit of Secret Persia and the Sufi Myth-History 2. From Mithra to Zarathushtra 3. The Gathas and Mithra 4. Mithraism and the Parallels of Sufism 5. The Resurgence of 'Persianate' Identity in the Transmission and Fusion of Ancient Iranian Ideals within Islam 6. From Late Antiquity to Neo-Mazdakism 7. Later Antiquity: Mazdak and the Sasanian Crisis 8. Between Late Antiquity and I…
The Nimatullahiya and Naqshbandiya Sufi Orders on the Internet
This article is an exploration of the level of integration of Nimatullahi and Naqshbandi Sufi orders in the consumer culture of the West. One reason for comparing and contrasting these two orders is that they have originated in similar socio-political and religio-cultural climates within fourteenth century Iran, and have been affected by similar changes in their historical extension, persecution and migration. Notwithstanding, their relations to …
Idols in the East
An Inquiry into the Nature of the Female Mystic and the Divine Feminine in Sufi Experience
This article is an inquiry into the nature of the female mystic and the divine feminine in Sufi experience. It considers this experience in the general sense with regard to the Sufi tradition, but in its analysis, the article primarily draws on examples from the classical period of Sufi history. Based on an analysis of the thought of key Sufi figures from that period, the assertion is made that the ground of the sacred is female and, as such, the…
Michael M. J. Fischer
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Idols in the East
Making Modern Muslims
The Nimatullahiya and Naqshbandiya Sufi Orders on the Internet
This article is an exploration of the level of integration of Nimatullahi and Naqshbandi Sufi orders in the consumer culture of the West. One reason for comparing and contrasting these two orders is that they have originated in similar socio-political and religio-cultural climates within fourteenth century Iran, and have been affected by similar changes in their historical extension, persecution and migration. Notwithstanding, their relations to …
Sufism in the Secret History of Persia
The Religious Landscape of Iranian Identity 1. The Macrohistorical Pursuit of Secret Persia and the Sufi Myth-History 2. From Mithra to Zarathushtra 3. The Gathas and Mithra 4. Mithraism and the Parallels of Sufism 5. The Resurgence of 'Persianate' Identity in the Transmission and Fusion of Ancient Iranian Ideals within Islam 6. From Late Antiquity to Neo-Mazdakism 7. Later Antiquity: Mazdak and the Sasanian Crisis 8. Between Late Antiquity and I…
Sufism, spirituality and consumerism
William GervaseClarence‐Smith
S hariati, A li
Ali Shariati was a significant ideologue of Iranian revolutionary thought. Shariati represented a distinct formulation of social and political thought that placed religion at its center. His academic career was marked by a unique arbitration of “original” and “protestant” Shi'ite Islam with a culturally sensitive modernization process. He remains an influential philosopher on the politics of religion and society.
Sufi Political Thought
Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historically as important civic and political actors in the Muslim world, having participated extensively in inter-faith dialogue and political challenges to religious orthodoxy. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Sufi political tradition, both historically and in its present form. It outlines h…
Quest for justice
This article examines Islamism as phenomenon and category in the context of the study of religion. It enquires about the experience of Islam in modernity at the juncture of Islam, justice, and civility in order to problematise the discourse on Islamism as political Islam. The argument is made that Islam is not a political religion, but a religion that has historically seen political power as part of its religious project. Further, that Islamism a…
Modern talking
This article shares the findings of a socio-political discourse analysis of modern Sufism. The study is conducted from the multi-disciplinary perspective of studies in religion, and is based on the assessment of one-on-one qualitative interviews about the approach of three prominent world Sufi orders—the Chishti, Naqshbandi, and Nimatullahi—to society and politics. The case studies present a new interpretation of modern Sufi religious and politic…
Sufism
Reflections on an Academic Pursuit of Religion
The study of religion is a contested field of investigation that has for thepast two decades challenged my thinking on the subject. 'An unofficialphilosopher of religion who received his academic training from a historian'sums up my story as an accidental scholar of religion. On the whole,I see my work as a series of successive leaps, unbound by any one particularproject. As a mid-career academic, I am in the process of yet anotherleap, as it wer…
Islam, Civility and Political Culture
Modern Thinking in Islam
This special issue will begin by asking the question: just how critical is 'Islamic thinking' in the modern period? Which of the host of Muslim intellectuals throughout the period in question can we say have produced works that show ground-breaking progress in thinking about religion and society? Which of them, even in challenging the status quo, have surpassed conventional paradigms of the Islamicate world? This might seem an unfair, even extrem…
Shahab Ahmed and the Hermeneutics of Islam
In the posthumously published book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016), Shahab Ahmed (1966–2015) presented a new conceptualisation of Islam to address two points: to re-conceptualise Islam in terms of contradiction, and re-present what it meant to be Islamic as a challenge to existing conceptualisations. This article argues that Ahmed’s rethinking of Islam/Islamic is properly situated as a revivalist catholic hermeneutics, and …
Raphael Lataster
An Inquiry into the Nature of the Female Mystic and the Divine Feminine in Sufi Experience
This article is an inquiry into the nature of the female mystic and the divine feminine in Sufi experience. It considers this experience in the general sense with regard to the Sufi tradition, but in its analysis, the article primarily draws on examples from the classical period of Sufi history. Based on an analysis of the thought of key Sufi figures from that period, the assertion is made that the ground of the sacred is female and, as such, the…
The Question of Origin and Beginning of Sufism
The question of origin and beginning of Sufism is problematical because the beginning obscures the origin. This statement, which draws on Heidegger’s philosophy of history, underpins the basis of the argument made in this article. We can say that Sufism began with Islam, since Sufi beliefs and practices developed from an initially ascetic and then gradually contemplative praxis that interpreted the Islamic canon in that light. Sufism is therefore…
What is Religious Studies
This address was given in-person at the 2023 annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion, hosted by the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. The purpose of the address was to raise the question about the fundamental aspects of our thinking about religion, and via this process of inquiry to underline the importance of our relationship to words, ideas, and their meaning. So as not t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Religions and Traditions
Thinking Religion in Place
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion (JASR) was founded—under the title of the Australian Religion Studies Review (ARSR)—some 35 years ago in 1988 and renamed in 2013. Now, the co-editors are relaunching the journal: this time, our name remains the same, but our song is changing. Our hope is to make the JASR distinctive in the religious studies publishing landscape. Although there are many high-quality journals in our field, we want to …
Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson, 'Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson, Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 72, AUD $64.99, ISBN 9781009460118 (pbk)
Islamic Thought in the Mirror of Philosophy
Intellectual fascination with Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in the Islamicate world began with his introduction to its intellectuals in the 20th century. Since that time, notable intellectuals have drawn upon Heidegger’s philosophy to revise or reinforce the established values and beliefs of their time. Heidegger’s relationship to the Islamicate world has now been brought to the attention of the academic community as an area of study deserving of…
Philosophy (24 obras) · Islam (19 obras) · Theology (19 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (18 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Education and Islamic Studies (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Religious studies (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Epistemology (12 obras)