Th Emil Homerin
Biographic Data
| ID | 703987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Th Emil Homerin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Th Emil |
| FAMILY NAME | Homerin |
| SIGNATURE | HOMERIN T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto: A Brief Catalogue, written by Eleazar Birnbaum
Arabic takhalluṣ, Persian Style in Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī’s Poems to Muḥammad the Prophet
Though a signature verse ( takhalluṣ ) is often found in medieval Persian and Ottoman Turkish poetry, this is less frequently the case in Arabic poetry at this time. However, Muḥammad Ibn al-Shihābī al-Ṣūfī included such a signature verse in 38 Arabic poems, many inspired by recitations of Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s poetry. This article offers a critical Arabic edition and English translation of two of these poems, followed by an extensive discussion of ling…
Close Encounters of the Sufi Kind
In a well-known story, ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ appears to ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī in Mecca during the Hajj with good news from the Unseen world. The two Sufi masters later meet again, and al-Suhrawardī invests Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s sons and others with the khirqah , or Sufi robe. Despite the wondrous elements in this account, new evidence suggests that much of this story is true. The proof texts are two poems by Muḥammad Ibn al-Khiyamī, and they underscore the v…
The Hunt in Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic, written by Jaroslav Stetkevych
As You Are Now”: Ibn Isrā’īl’s Elegies for His Daughter
The 7th/13th century Damascene poet Muḥammad Ibn Isrā’īl (d. 677/1278) was noted for his dedicated discipleship to the controversial Sufi ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī and for his elegant mystical Arabic verse. Based on his belief in Divine Oneness, Ibn Isrā’īl claimed that all of his poems were in praise of God. This article will closely read two elegies that Ibn Isrā’īl composed following the tragic death of his adult daughter. In them, Ibn Isrā’īl drew from …
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325, written by Nathan Hofer
A Distant Fire: Ibn al-Shahrazūrī’s Mystical Ode and Arabic Sufi Verse
The al-Mawṣiliyya by al-Murṭaḍā Ibn al-Shahrazūrī (d. 511/1117) is among the earliest Arabic odes on Sufism. Ibn al-Shahrazūrī drew from the Arabic qaṣīda tradition, the Qur’an, and Sufism to compose his elegant poem on the quest for mystical illumination. This article offers a critical Arabic edition of the ode along with an English translation. This is followed by a close reading of the poem and the consideration of poetic and religious influen…
Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies
Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood By John Renard
Journal Article Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood By John Renard Get access Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and ServanthoodBy John Renard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), xx, 346 pp. Price PB £16.95. EAN 978–0520251984. T. Emil Homerin T. Emil Homerin University of RochesterE-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period
"The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished schol…
Writing Sufi Biography: The Case of ‘Ā’ishah al‐Bā‘ūn?yah (d. 922/1517) 1
The Wine of Love and Life: Ibn al-Fāriḍ's al-Khamrīyah and al-Qayṣarī's Quest for Meaning
Preface Introduction TRANSLATION The Commentary on Ibn al-Farid's Wine Ode Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Divine Sayings Index of Prophetic Hadith Index of Sayings of Ali ibn Talib and Jesus Bibliography Plates ARABIC EDITION Al-Qaysari's Sharh Khamriyat Ibn al-Farid Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Divine Sayings Index of Prophetic Hadith Index of Sayings of Ali Talib and Jesus
Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Fāriḍ, His Verse, and His Shrine
Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt
Avner Gilʾadi, Children of Islam, St. Antony's/Macmillan Series (Oxford: (MacMillan, 1992). Pp. 188
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A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam
Journal Article A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam Get access Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 247–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.2.247 Published: 01 July 1…
Preaching Poetry: The Forgotten Verse of Ibn Al-Sahrazūrī
OETRY has had a place in Islamic preaching; preaching has played its part in poetry. While pre-Islamic Arab poets exhorted their patrons and tribes to valorous deeds, early Muslim preachers recited verse urging their followers to fulfill God's commands. In both instances, poetry's emotive energy powered the message1. The sudden and forceful impact this verse made upon an audience impressed the mystic and theologian al-Gazzall (d. 505/1111). He fe…
A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam
A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam Get access Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 541–573, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVIII.4.541 Published: 01 December 1990
Ibn Taimīya's Al-Sufīyah Wa-Al-Fuqarā ̧
Traduction anglaise de cette courte Epitre du juriste hanbaliste et theologien Ibn Taymiyya (1262-1328)
Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Sa'di's Somnatiyah
[Sa'di] made the pilgrimage numerous times on foot, and he entered the temple at Somnāth and smashed their great idol. - Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-uns. Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) encounter with the idol of Somnāth is among the most popular stories of his Būstān and frequently mentioned in biographies of him. Jāmī apparently believed the account, as have a number of scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who nevertheless have expressed reservations…
Short review and book note
The Bhagavata-Purana, Translated and annotated by Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare. Ancient Indian tradition and mythology series, vol. VII, Part I. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 1976. Rs. 50.00 Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, Reincarnation: The phoenix fire mystery, New York, Crown 1977. xix + 620 pp. $10.00 Grace G. Harris, Casting out anger. Religion among the Taita of Kenya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1978, 193 pp. £7.95 S. N. Kramer, From the p…
Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
Sa'di's Somnatiyah
[Sa'di] made the pilgrimage numerous times on foot, and he entered the temple at Somnāth and smashed their great idol. - Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-uns. Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) encounter with the idol of Somnāth is among the most popular stories of his Būstān and frequently mentioned in biographies of him. Jāmī apparently believed the account, as have a number of scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who nevertheless have expressed reservations…
Short review and book note
The Bhagavata-Purana, Translated and annotated by Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare. Ancient Indian tradition and mythology series, vol. VII, Part I. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 1976. Rs. 50.00 Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, Reincarnation: The phoenix fire mystery, New York, Crown 1977. xix + 620 pp. $10.00 Grace G. Harris, Casting out anger. Religion among the Taita of Kenya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1978, 193 pp. £7.95 S. N. Kramer, From the p…
Sa'di's Somnatiyah
[Sa'di] made the pilgrimage numerous times on foot, and he entered the temple at Somnāth and smashed their great idol. - Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-uns. Sa'di's (d. 691/1292) encounter with the idol of Somnāth is among the most popular stories of his Būstān and frequently mentioned in biographies of him. Jāmī apparently believed the account, as have a number of scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who nevertheless have expressed reservations…
Ibn Taimīya's Al-Sufīyah Wa-Al-Fuqarā ̧
Traduction anglaise de cette courte Epitre du juriste hanbaliste et theologien Ibn Taymiyya (1262-1328)
Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry
A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam
A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam Get access Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 541–573, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVIII.4.541 Published: 01 December 1990
A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam
Journal Article A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam Get access Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin Th. Emil Homerin is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 2, Summer 1991, Pages 247–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.2.247 Published: 01 July 1…
Preaching Poetry: The Forgotten Verse of Ibn Al-Sahrazūrī
OETRY has had a place in Islamic preaching; preaching has played its part in poetry. While pre-Islamic Arab poets exhorted their patrons and tribes to valorous deeds, early Muslim preachers recited verse urging their followers to fulfill God's commands. In both instances, poetry's emotive energy powered the message1. The sudden and forceful impact this verse made upon an audience impressed the mystic and theologian al-Gazzall (d. 505/1111). He fe…
Avner Gilʾadi, Children of Islam, St. Antony's/Macmillan Series (Oxford: (MacMillan, 1992). Pp. 188
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt
From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Fāriḍ, His Verse, and His Shrine
Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Wine of Love and Life: Ibn al-Fāriḍ's al-Khamrīyah and al-Qayṣarī's Quest for Meaning
Preface Introduction TRANSLATION The Commentary on Ibn al-Farid's Wine Ode Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Divine Sayings Index of Prophetic Hadith Index of Sayings of Ali ibn Talib and Jesus Bibliography Plates ARABIC EDITION Al-Qaysari's Sharh Khamriyat Ibn al-Farid Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Divine Sayings Index of Prophetic Hadith Index of Sayings of Ali Talib and Jesus
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period
"The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards bring together some of the most distinguished schol…
Writing Sufi Biography: The Case of ‘Ā’ishah al‐Bā‘ūn?yah (d. 922/1517) 1
Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood By John Renard
Journal Article Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood By John Renard Get access Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and ServanthoodBy John Renard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), xx, 346 pp. Price PB £16.95. EAN 978–0520251984. T. Emil Homerin T. Emil Homerin University of RochesterE-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies
A Distant Fire: Ibn al-Shahrazūrī’s Mystical Ode and Arabic Sufi Verse
The al-Mawṣiliyya by al-Murṭaḍā Ibn al-Shahrazūrī (d. 511/1117) is among the earliest Arabic odes on Sufism. Ibn al-Shahrazūrī drew from the Arabic qaṣīda tradition, the Qur’an, and Sufism to compose his elegant poem on the quest for mystical illumination. This article offers a critical Arabic edition of the ode along with an English translation. This is followed by a close reading of the poem and the consideration of poetic and religious influen…
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325, written by Nathan Hofer
Close Encounters of the Sufi Kind
In a well-known story, ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ appears to ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī in Mecca during the Hajj with good news from the Unseen world. The two Sufi masters later meet again, and al-Suhrawardī invests Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s sons and others with the khirqah , or Sufi robe. Despite the wondrous elements in this account, new evidence suggests that much of this story is true. The proof texts are two poems by Muḥammad Ibn al-Khiyamī, and they underscore the v…
The Hunt in Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic, written by Jaroslav Stetkevych
As You Are Now”: Ibn Isrā’īl’s Elegies for His Daughter
The 7th/13th century Damascene poet Muḥammad Ibn Isrā’īl (d. 677/1278) was noted for his dedicated discipleship to the controversial Sufi ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī and for his elegant mystical Arabic verse. Based on his belief in Divine Oneness, Ibn Isrā’īl claimed that all of his poems were in praise of God. This article will closely read two elegies that Ibn Isrā’īl composed following the tragic death of his adult daughter. In them, Ibn Isrā’īl drew from …
Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto: A Brief Catalogue, written by Eleazar Birnbaum
Arabic takhalluṣ, Persian Style in Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī’s Poems to Muḥammad the Prophet
Though a signature verse ( takhalluṣ ) is often found in medieval Persian and Ottoman Turkish poetry, this is less frequently the case in Arabic poetry at this time. However, Muḥammad Ibn al-Shihābī al-Ṣūfī included such a signature verse in 38 Arabic poems, many inspired by recitations of Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s poetry. This article offers a critical Arabic edition and English translation of two of these poems, followed by an extensive discussion of ling…
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