Jamal J Elias
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamal J Elias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamal J |
| FAMILY NAME | Elias |
| SIGNATURE | ELIAS J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
After Rumi
John J. Curry. The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire
This book by John J. Curry represents one of only a handful of close historical studies of religious movements in the Ottoman Empire. It would be a welcome publication on that basis alone. Fortunately, it has more to commend it, since it constitutes a fine piece of scholarship on the development of a specific Sufi order over a period of centuries, with special attention given to its relationship to the Ottoman state. The book is comprised of thre…
Aisha's Cushion
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha's Cushion emphasizes Islam's perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visu…
Ṣūfī tafsīr Reconsidered
Ṣūfī tafsīr on the Qur'an is widely accepted as a distinct scholarly or literary genre within the wider field of Islamic scholarship. Ṣūfī writers frequently describe themselves as participating within an identifiable tradition when they write commentaries on the Qur'an, and over the last century a number of scholars – writing from within the Muslim tradition and without – not only have accepted the notion of a millennium-long genre of Ṣūfī tafsī…
Ṣūfī tafsīr Reconsidered
Ṣūfī tafsīr on the Qur'an is widely accepted as a distinct scholarly or literary genre within the wider field of Islamic scholarship. Ṣūfī writers frequently describe themselves as participating within an identifiable tradition when they write commentaries on the Qur'an, and over the last century a number of scholars – writing from within the Muslim tradition and without – not only have accepted the notion of a millennium-long genre of Ṣūfī tafsī…
Prophecy, Power and Propriety
The encounter of Solomon with the Queen of Sheba stands out as one of the more noteworthy stories related in the Qur'an. Among the distinguishing characteristics of the majority of Qur'anic pericopes of pre-Islamic prophetic figures are the apparent disjointedness of the references, the absence of sustained narrative, and allusions to characters and events that do not appear in the Qur'anic text itself. The story of the Queen of Sheba is elliptic…
Truck decoration and religious identity
Truck decoration in Pakistan is a pervasive practice in which virtually all trucks are ornamented with some combination of epigraphic formulae, poetry, repetitive patterns and figural images. Both the images and epigraphic formulae may or may not be religious in nature. The decoration of a truck can signify a great deal about the religious identities of the individuals associated with the culture of truck decoration and, more specifically, how ch…
On Wings of Diesel
Interpreting the Self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent…
A Second 'Al
Sufi Saints and Shrines in Muslim Society
Sufism
Sufism is One of the Most Dynamic and Interesting Dimensions of Islamic religious and cultural expression. It is an umbrella term for a variety of philosophical, social, and literary phenomena occurring within the Islamic world. In its narrowest sense, the term “Sufism” refers to a number of schools of Islamic mystical philosophy and theology, to the phenomenon of religious orders and guilds (tarīqāt) that have exerted considerable influence over…
The Throne Carrier of God
The Sufi Lords of Bahrabad
The Seljuk and Kh w arazmid periods witnessed a growing relationship between Sufism and the state in the central Islamic lands. This link grew even stronger during the Ilkhanid Mongol period when there was an immense rise in the influence of Sufi masters in court circles, so much so that, in many ways, some Sufi figures became the primary religious authorities in Ilkhanid Iran. At the same time, there also appears to have been a blurring of the p…
A Kubraw? Treatise on Mystical Visions
Aisha's Cushion
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha's Cushion emphasizes Islam's perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visu…
Truck decoration and religious identity
Truck decoration in Pakistan is a pervasive practice in which virtually all trucks are ornamented with some combination of epigraphic formulae, poetry, repetitive patterns and figural images. Both the images and epigraphic formulae may or may not be religious in nature. The decoration of a truck can signify a great deal about the religious identities of the individuals associated with the culture of truck decoration and, more specifically, how ch…
A Kubraw? Treatise on Mystical Visions
The Sufi Lords of Bahrabad
The Seljuk and Kh w arazmid periods witnessed a growing relationship between Sufism and the state in the central Islamic lands. This link grew even stronger during the Ilkhanid Mongol period when there was an immense rise in the influence of Sufi masters in court circles, so much so that, in many ways, some Sufi figures became the primary religious authorities in Ilkhanid Iran. At the same time, there also appears to have been a blurring of the p…
On Wings of Diesel
A Second 'Al
A Kubraw? Treatise on Mystical Visions
The Sufi Lords of Bahrabad
The Seljuk and Kh w arazmid periods witnessed a growing relationship between Sufism and the state in the central Islamic lands. This link grew even stronger during the Ilkhanid Mongol period when there was an immense rise in the influence of Sufi masters in court circles, so much so that, in many ways, some Sufi figures became the primary religious authorities in Ilkhanid Iran. At the same time, there also appears to have been a blurring of the p…
Sufism
Sufism is One of the Most Dynamic and Interesting Dimensions of Islamic religious and cultural expression. It is an umbrella term for a variety of philosophical, social, and literary phenomena occurring within the Islamic world. In its narrowest sense, the term “Sufism” refers to a number of schools of Islamic mystical philosophy and theology, to the phenomenon of religious orders and guilds (tarīqāt) that have exerted considerable influence over…
The Throne Carrier of God
A Second 'Al
Sufi Saints and Shrines in Muslim Society
Interpreting the Self
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation. The authors of these autobiographies represent…
On Wings of Diesel
Truck decoration and religious identity
Truck decoration in Pakistan is a pervasive practice in which virtually all trucks are ornamented with some combination of epigraphic formulae, poetry, repetitive patterns and figural images. Both the images and epigraphic formulae may or may not be religious in nature. The decoration of a truck can signify a great deal about the religious identities of the individuals associated with the culture of truck decoration and, more specifically, how ch…
Prophecy, Power and Propriety
The encounter of Solomon with the Queen of Sheba stands out as one of the more noteworthy stories related in the Qur'an. Among the distinguishing characteristics of the majority of Qur'anic pericopes of pre-Islamic prophetic figures are the apparent disjointedness of the references, the absence of sustained narrative, and allusions to characters and events that do not appear in the Qur'anic text itself. The story of the Queen of Sheba is elliptic…
Ṣūfī tafsīr Reconsidered
Ṣūfī tafsīr on the Qur'an is widely accepted as a distinct scholarly or literary genre within the wider field of Islamic scholarship. Ṣūfī writers frequently describe themselves as participating within an identifiable tradition when they write commentaries on the Qur'an, and over the last century a number of scholars – writing from within the Muslim tradition and without – not only have accepted the notion of a millennium-long genre of Ṣūfī tafsī…
Ṣūfī tafsīr Reconsidered
Ṣūfī tafsīr on the Qur'an is widely accepted as a distinct scholarly or literary genre within the wider field of Islamic scholarship. Ṣūfī writers frequently describe themselves as participating within an identifiable tradition when they write commentaries on the Qur'an, and over the last century a number of scholars – writing from within the Muslim tradition and without – not only have accepted the notion of a millennium-long genre of Ṣūfī tafsī…
Aisha's Cushion
Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha's Cushion emphasizes Islam's perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visu…
John J. Curry. The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire
This book by John J. Curry represents one of only a handful of close historical studies of religious movements in the Ottoman Empire. It would be a welcome publication on that basis alone. Fortunately, it has more to commend it, since it constitutes a fine piece of scholarship on the development of a specific Sufi order over a period of centuries, with special attention given to its relationship to the Ottoman state. The book is comprised of thre…
After Rumi
Islamic Studies and History (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)