Leonard Lewisohn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 490513 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leonard Lewisohn |
| PRENOMES | Leonard |
| SOBRENOME | Lewisohn |
| ASSINATURA | LEWISOHN L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From Rumi’s Mathnawī
Metaphysical Time in Rūmī’s Mathnawī
This article explores the idea of Metaphysical Time in the poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī against more general understandings of time and temporality in Sufi thought and Persian poetry. Various attitudes toward serial time and the subjective experience of past, present, and future are reflected in the poetry of not only Rūmī, but also ʽUmar Khayyām and Ḥāfiẓ. The philosophical approaches toward human temporality discussed here include sentient carpe…
Heritage of Sufism
Sufism’s Religion of Love, from Rābi‘a to Ibn ‘Arabī
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315–1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz’s verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and myst…
Theoretical Extremes of the Study of Mystic Man in Modern Iran
Highlighting certain fallacies in a recent anthropological study of three branches of the Ni‘matu’llāhī Sufi Order in modern Iran, this review article tries to cast light on the little-understood relationship between legalistic Islam and Persian Sufism. It also attempts to clarify the connection (or rather, lack thereof) between Sufism and the Pahlavi state and the current Islamist regime, while discussing the subtle distinction between and ‘irfā…
Hierocosmic Intellect and Universal Soul in a Qaṣīda by Nāṣir-I Khusraw
This essay attempts to decipher some of obscure religious, cosmological, theological, and psychological allusions found in Nāṣir-i Khusraw's metaphysical poetry. A single qaṣīda is translated, each line given exhaustive commentary and its key concepts—particularly Soul (nafs, jān). Intellect (ʿaqil, Substance (jawhar), and Form (ṣūrat)—placed in their proper philosophical and literary context. Some resemblances between this poet and other Ismāʿīl…
ʿAṭṭār and the Persian Sufi Tradition
Sufism and Ismāʿīlī Doctrine in the Persian Poetry of Nizārī Quhistānī (645-721/1247-1321)
An Introduction to the History of Modern Persian Sufism, Part II
The revival of the Dhahabī order in modern Persia took place several decades earlier than that of the Ni'matullāhī through the person of Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī (d. 1173/1759), the thirty-second in line from the Prophet. Nayrīzī was well-versed in all of the various Islamic sciences of his day and among his followers are counted a number of notable Shiite clerics, such as Shaykh Jaՙfar Najafī, Mullā Miḥrab Gīlānī, Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥs ̄'ī and Sayyid Mahd…
Imaginal Worlds
An introduction to the history of modern Persian Sufism, Part I
Following the political upheavals of 1978, the history and development of Shiite religious thought in modern-day Persia has been the subject of detailed scholarly studies, but the modern development of Sufism-the mystical tradition that lies at the heart of traditional Persian culture, literature and philosophy, which is, from the cultural and literary point of view at least, the most fascinating aspect of the Perso-Islamic religious tradition-re…
All the King's Falcons
The sacred music of Islam
The creation of a specific liturgy, composed of prayer, litanies, singing, music and sometimes dance, known as Samā’, integrating music into the practice of meditation, is an important aspect of the contemplative life in Islamic Sufism. The essay explores the basic theological and mystical concepts of Samā’. Part 1 discusses audition in Islamic theology, where three schools of scholars existed: advocates, adversaries and moderates. The views of t…
Palāsī's Memoir of Shaykh Kujujī, a Persian Sufi Saint of the Thirteenth Century
Khwāja Muhammad ibn Sadīq ibn Muhammad Kujujī or “Kujūjānī” (d. Dhū-hijja 677/April, 1279), as Hamdu'llāh Mustawfī Qazwīnī called him, was a Sufi master whose sons later occupied the post of Shaykh al-Islām in Tabriz under the early Jalā'irids, the Tīmūrids and early Safavids. Born in 614/1217–18, Kujujī's life coincides with the commencement of Mongol rule in northern Persia under Chingiz Khān in 1219, the conquest of Tabrīz in 1220 by the Mongo…
Enigmatic Saint
Journal Article Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition Get access Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition, by R. S. O'Fahey. Hurst & Company, London, 1990. xvii + 262pp. £25 hardback. ISBN 1 85065 087 X. LEONARD LEWISOHN LEONARD LEWISOHN Nimatullahi Research CentreLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 360, July 1991, Pages 476–478, htt…
The Life and Poetry of Mashreqi Tabrizi
Of the rhyme and verse of Shams-e Mashreqi Go tell the news to all who merit it Because the worth of pearls borne from sea all jewelers will appreciate. — Mashreqi During the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century in Tabriz, the political and cultural capital of medieval Persia, a remarkable congregation of Sufi poets assembled whose society, fellowship, and fraternity in Sufism, made them all members of one literary movement in Persian poet…
The sacred music of Islam
The creation of a specific liturgy, composed of prayer, litanies, singing, music and sometimes dance, known as Samā’, integrating music into the practice of meditation, is an important aspect of the contemplative life in Islamic Sufism. The essay explores the basic theological and mystical concepts of Samā’. Part 1 discusses audition in Islamic theology, where three schools of scholars existed: advocates, adversaries and moderates. The views of t…
An Introduction to the History of Modern Persian Sufism, Part II
The revival of the Dhahabī order in modern Persia took place several decades earlier than that of the Ni'matullāhī through the person of Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī (d. 1173/1759), the thirty-second in line from the Prophet. Nayrīzī was well-versed in all of the various Islamic sciences of his day and among his followers are counted a number of notable Shiite clerics, such as Shaykh Jaՙfar Najafī, Mullā Miḥrab Gīlānī, Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥs ̄'ī and Sayyid Mahd…
An introduction to the history of modern Persian Sufism, Part I
Following the political upheavals of 1978, the history and development of Shiite religious thought in modern-day Persia has been the subject of detailed scholarly studies, but the modern development of Sufism-the mystical tradition that lies at the heart of traditional Persian culture, literature and philosophy, which is, from the cultural and literary point of view at least, the most fascinating aspect of the Perso-Islamic religious tradition-re…
Hierocosmic Intellect and Universal Soul in a Qaṣīda by Nāṣir-I Khusraw
This essay attempts to decipher some of obscure religious, cosmological, theological, and psychological allusions found in Nāṣir-i Khusraw's metaphysical poetry. A single qaṣīda is translated, each line given exhaustive commentary and its key concepts—particularly Soul (nafs, jān). Intellect (ʿaqil, Substance (jawhar), and Form (ṣūrat)—placed in their proper philosophical and literary context. Some resemblances between this poet and other Ismāʿīl…
Sufism and Ismāʿīlī Doctrine in the Persian Poetry of Nizārī Quhistānī (645-721/1247-1321)
Theoretical Extremes of the Study of Mystic Man in Modern Iran
Highlighting certain fallacies in a recent anthropological study of three branches of the Ni‘matu’llāhī Sufi Order in modern Iran, this review article tries to cast light on the little-understood relationship between legalistic Islam and Persian Sufism. It also attempts to clarify the connection (or rather, lack thereof) between Sufism and the Pahlavi state and the current Islamist regime, while discussing the subtle distinction between and ‘irfā…
The Life and Poetry of Mashreqi Tabrizi
Of the rhyme and verse of Shams-e Mashreqi Go tell the news to all who merit it Because the worth of pearls borne from sea all jewelers will appreciate. — Mashreqi During the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century in Tabriz, the political and cultural capital of medieval Persia, a remarkable congregation of Sufi poets assembled whose society, fellowship, and fraternity in Sufism, made them all members of one literary movement in Persian poet…
The Life and Poetry of Mashreqi Tabrizi
Of the rhyme and verse of Shams-e Mashreqi Go tell the news to all who merit it Because the worth of pearls borne from sea all jewelers will appreciate. — Mashreqi During the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century in Tabriz, the political and cultural capital of medieval Persia, a remarkable congregation of Sufi poets assembled whose society, fellowship, and fraternity in Sufism, made them all members of one literary movement in Persian poet…
Enigmatic Saint
Journal Article Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition Get access Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition, by R. S. O'Fahey. Hurst & Company, London, 1990. xvii + 262pp. £25 hardback. ISBN 1 85065 087 X. LEONARD LEWISOHN LEONARD LEWISOHN Nimatullahi Research CentreLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 360, July 1991, Pages 476–478, htt…
Palāsī's Memoir of Shaykh Kujujī, a Persian Sufi Saint of the Thirteenth Century
Khwāja Muhammad ibn Sadīq ibn Muhammad Kujujī or “Kujūjānī” (d. Dhū-hijja 677/April, 1279), as Hamdu'llāh Mustawfī Qazwīnī called him, was a Sufi master whose sons later occupied the post of Shaykh al-Islām in Tabriz under the early Jalā'irids, the Tīmūrids and early Safavids. Born in 614/1217–18, Kujujī's life coincides with the commencement of Mongol rule in northern Persia under Chingiz Khān in 1219, the conquest of Tabrīz in 1220 by the Mongo…
All the King's Falcons
The sacred music of Islam
The creation of a specific liturgy, composed of prayer, litanies, singing, music and sometimes dance, known as Samā’, integrating music into the practice of meditation, is an important aspect of the contemplative life in Islamic Sufism. The essay explores the basic theological and mystical concepts of Samā’. Part 1 discusses audition in Islamic theology, where three schools of scholars existed: advocates, adversaries and moderates. The views of t…
Imaginal Worlds
An introduction to the history of modern Persian Sufism, Part I
Following the political upheavals of 1978, the history and development of Shiite religious thought in modern-day Persia has been the subject of detailed scholarly studies, but the modern development of Sufism-the mystical tradition that lies at the heart of traditional Persian culture, literature and philosophy, which is, from the cultural and literary point of view at least, the most fascinating aspect of the Perso-Islamic religious tradition-re…
An Introduction to the History of Modern Persian Sufism, Part II
The revival of the Dhahabī order in modern Persia took place several decades earlier than that of the Ni'matullāhī through the person of Quṭb al-Dīn Nayrīzī (d. 1173/1759), the thirty-second in line from the Prophet. Nayrīzī was well-versed in all of the various Islamic sciences of his day and among his followers are counted a number of notable Shiite clerics, such as Shaykh Jaՙfar Najafī, Mullā Miḥrab Gīlānī, Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥs ̄'ī and Sayyid Mahd…
Sufism and Ismāʿīlī Doctrine in the Persian Poetry of Nizārī Quhistānī (645-721/1247-1321)
ʿAṭṭār and the Persian Sufi Tradition
Hierocosmic Intellect and Universal Soul in a Qaṣīda by Nāṣir-I Khusraw
This essay attempts to decipher some of obscure religious, cosmological, theological, and psychological allusions found in Nāṣir-i Khusraw's metaphysical poetry. A single qaṣīda is translated, each line given exhaustive commentary and its key concepts—particularly Soul (nafs, jān). Intellect (ʿaqil, Substance (jawhar), and Form (ṣūrat)—placed in their proper philosophical and literary context. Some resemblances between this poet and other Ismāʿīl…
Theoretical Extremes of the Study of Mystic Man in Modern Iran
Highlighting certain fallacies in a recent anthropological study of three branches of the Ni‘matu’llāhī Sufi Order in modern Iran, this review article tries to cast light on the little-understood relationship between legalistic Islam and Persian Sufism. It also attempts to clarify the connection (or rather, lack thereof) between Sufism and the Pahlavi state and the current Islamist regime, while discussing the subtle distinction between and ‘irfā…
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315–1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz’s verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and myst…
Sufism’s Religion of Love, from Rābi‘a to Ibn ‘Arabī
Heritage of Sufism
From Rumi’s Mathnawī
Metaphysical Time in Rūmī’s Mathnawī
This article explores the idea of Metaphysical Time in the poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī against more general understandings of time and temporality in Sufi thought and Persian poetry. Various attitudes toward serial time and the subjective experience of past, present, and future are reflected in the poetry of not only Rūmī, but also ʽUmar Khayyām and Ḥāfiẓ. The philosophical approaches toward human temporality discussed here include sentient carpe…
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