Alexander Knysh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 246035 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander Knysh |
| PRENOMES | Alexander |
| SOBRENOME | Knysh |
| ASSINATURA | KNYSH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2791-8976 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sufis in Medieval Baghdad
Women in Islamic Societies
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
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Studying Sufism in Russia
Interest in esoteric and mystical aspects of Islam in present-day Russia and its Soviet and tsarist predecessors is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. The article starts with a critical discussion of Aleksandr Dugin ’s (b. 1962) interpretations of Sufism in his ambitious intellectual project Noomachia: Wars of the Intellect [and] Civilizations of Borderlands . The author then compares Dugin ’s conceptualizations of Sufism with those of severa…
Modern Sufis and the State
This volume consists of sixteen contributions by scholars of modern Indian Islam. Their goal is to “disrupt” several popular theological, political, and academic assumptions about Sufism, namely: (1) that it is primarily the individual’s private relationship with God separate from both public life and legalistic Islam and, moreover, has non-Islamic roots; (2) that the sophisticated spirituality, philosophy, and poetry of “intellectual” Sufism are…
Sufism in Post-Soviet Russia
Sufism in post-Soviet Russia is a complex phenomenon that resists common methodological assumptions current in the sociology of religion and cultural studies, especially the oft-cited notions of disenchantment or re-enchantment and cognitive paradigm shift. This article demonstrates that discontinuities and shifts in cultural and intellectual spheres do matter, but so do continuities and remembrances of the past. In other words, "nothing is ever …
Sufism and Early Islamic Piety
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Mark Sedgwick. Western Sufism
This erudite and informative book is a sequel to the author’s Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004). Whereas the latter discusses the vicissitudes of “traditionalism,” an amorphous religious-political and spiritual movement aimed at recovering the primeval “Oriental” belief and practice that the modern West has allegedly failed to appreciate and embrace, Western Sufism focuses…
Islam in Historical Perspective
Islam in Historical Perspective organically integrates the history of Islamic societies with a discussion of how Muslim scriptures, laws, moral values and myths have shaped the lives and thought of individual Muslims and various Muslim communities from the rise of Islam until today. It provides introductory readers with a large body of carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vis…
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Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies
Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency
Interpretations and uses of Islam are legion today. Some call for improving or preserving the morals and dignity of a certain local Muslim community or of the global Muslim community (umma) in its entirety. Others are eager to demonstrate that Islam is fully compatible and, in fact, conducive to modernity, democratic governance, and technological advancement of humankind. Still others posit Islam as a powerful means of liberation from occupation …
The Lone Wolf and the Bear
Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West
Contextualizing the Salafi – Sufi conflict (from the Northern Caucasus to Hadramawt)
In late August – early September of 1999, when the so-called Russian ‘anti-terrorist’ operation in Daghestan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, was in full swing following its invas
A Clear and Present Danger
We shall not return to the state anterior to discourse-in which nothing has yet been said, and in which things are only just beginning to emerge out of the grey light; and we shall not pass beyond discourse in order to rediscover the forms that it has created and left behind it; we shall remain, or try to remain, at the level of discourse itself...A task consists of not-of no longer-treating discourses as groups of signs (signifying elements refe…
Sufism as an Explanatory Paradigm
sufism as an explanatory paradigm 139 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 2 Also available online – www.brill.nl SUFISM AS AN EXPLANATORY PARADIGM: THE ISSUE OF THE MOTIVATIONS OF SUFI RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN AND RUSSIAN SCHOLARSHIP BY ALEXANDER KNYSH Michigan Over the past four decades Western experts on the Middle East and Islam have spilled much ink in accounting for the political role of those Islamic "revival…
Islamic Mysticism
Ibn Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition, the Making of a Polemical Image in Medevial Islam
Islamic Mysticism, a Short History
This is a general survey of the rise and development of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) up to the modern period, which takes into account the latest achievements of scholarship on the subject. Sufism is examined from a variety of perspectives: as a vibrant social institution, a specific form of artistic expression, an ascetic and contemplative practice, and a distinctive intellectual tradition. Islamic Mysticism by Knysh is a comprehensive survey of t…
Ibn ʿArabī in the Later Islamic Tradition
The Sāda in History
In attempting to write a religious and political history of Ḥaḍramawt in the Middle Ages one inevitably encounters a number of methodological and historiographical problems some of which will be addressed in the present article. The first arises from the overall scarcity of historical documentation on the period in question. More importantly, the sources that are available are riddled with underlying agendas and biases, which often hinge on consi…
I Sādāt Nella Storia
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
Contextualizing the Salafi – Sufi conflict (from the Northern Caucasus to Hadramawt)
In late August – early September of 1999, when the so-called Russian ‘anti-terrorist’ operation in Daghestan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, was in full swing following its invas
Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” in Medieval Islam
Islamic Mysticism, a Short History
This is a general survey of the rise and development of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) up to the modern period, which takes into account the latest achievements of scholarship on the subject. Sufism is examined from a variety of perspectives: as a vibrant social institution, a specific form of artistic expression, an ascetic and contemplative practice, and a distinctive intellectual tradition. Islamic Mysticism by Knysh is a comprehensive survey of t…
A Clear and Present Danger
We shall not return to the state anterior to discourse-in which nothing has yet been said, and in which things are only just beginning to emerge out of the grey light; and we shall not pass beyond discourse in order to rediscover the forms that it has created and left behind it; we shall remain, or try to remain, at the level of discourse itself...A task consists of not-of no longer-treating discourses as groups of signs (signifying elements refe…
Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency
Interpretations and uses of Islam are legion today. Some call for improving or preserving the morals and dignity of a certain local Muslim community or of the global Muslim community (umma) in its entirety. Others are eager to demonstrate that Islam is fully compatible and, in fact, conducive to modernity, democratic governance, and technological advancement of humankind. Still others posit Islam as a powerful means of liberation from occupation …
Sufism as an Explanatory Paradigm
sufism as an explanatory paradigm 139 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 2 Also available online – www.brill.nl SUFISM AS AN EXPLANATORY PARADIGM: THE ISSUE OF THE MOTIVATIONS OF SUFI RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN AND RUSSIAN SCHOLARSHIP BY ALEXANDER KNYSH Michigan Over the past four decades Western experts on the Middle East and Islam have spilled much ink in accounting for the political role of those Islamic "revival…
The Sāda in History
In attempting to write a religious and political history of Ḥaḍramawt in the Middle Ages one inevitably encounters a number of methodological and historiographical problems some of which will be addressed in the present article. The first arises from the overall scarcity of historical documentation on the period in question. More importantly, the sources that are available are riddled with underlying agendas and biases, which often hinge on consi…
Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690), an Apologist for waḥdat al-wujūd
Few Islamic teachings can boast the fame, if not the notoriety, enjoyed by the doctrine of “unity of existence”, also known as “unity of being” ( waḥdat al-wujūd ). This controversialphilosophical doctrine became intimately associated with the towering figure of the Arabmystic of al-Andalus, Muḥyī'l-Dīn Ibn 'Arabī (d. 638/1240). Although Ibn 'Arabī himselfdoes not seem to have applied this ambiguous term to his loosely structured meta physical sp…
Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” in Medieval Islam
Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690), an Apologist for waḥdat al-wujūd
Few Islamic teachings can boast the fame, if not the notoriety, enjoyed by the doctrine of “unity of existence”, also known as “unity of being” ( waḥdat al-wujūd ). This controversialphilosophical doctrine became intimately associated with the towering figure of the Arabmystic of al-Andalus, Muḥyī'l-Dīn Ibn 'Arabī (d. 638/1240). Although Ibn 'Arabī himselfdoes not seem to have applied this ambiguous term to his loosely structured meta physical sp…
Sufi Wisdom . Marietta T. Stepaniants
Sufi Motifs in Contemporary Arabic Literature
The Cult of Saints and Religious Reformism in Hadhramaut
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
Ibn 'arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition
This book examines the fierce theological controversy over the great Muslim mystical thinker Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1242). Even during his lifetime, Ibn 'Arabi's conformity with the letter of the Muslim dogma was called into doubt by many scholars who were suspicious of the monistic (unitive) tendencies of his metaphysical teaching, of his claims to be the Prophet's successor and restorer of the true meaning of the Islamic revelation, and of his allego…
The Sāda in History
In attempting to write a religious and political history of Ḥaḍramawt in the Middle Ages one inevitably encounters a number of methodological and historiographical problems some of which will be addressed in the present article. The first arises from the overall scarcity of historical documentation on the period in question. More importantly, the sources that are available are riddled with underlying agendas and biases, which often hinge on consi…
I Sādāt Nella Storia
Islamic Mysticism
Ibn Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition, the Making of a Polemical Image in Medevial Islam
Islamic Mysticism, a Short History
This is a general survey of the rise and development of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) up to the modern period, which takes into account the latest achievements of scholarship on the subject. Sufism is examined from a variety of perspectives: as a vibrant social institution, a specific form of artistic expression, an ascetic and contemplative practice, and a distinctive intellectual tradition. Islamic Mysticism by Knysh is a comprehensive survey of t…
Ibn ʿArabī in the Later Islamic Tradition
Sufism as an Explanatory Paradigm
sufism as an explanatory paradigm 139 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Die Welt des Islams 42, 2 Also available online – www.brill.nl SUFISM AS AN EXPLANATORY PARADIGM: THE ISSUE OF THE MOTIVATIONS OF SUFI RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN AND RUSSIAN SCHOLARSHIP BY ALEXANDER KNYSH Michigan Over the past four decades Western experts on the Middle East and Islam have spilled much ink in accounting for the political role of those Islamic "revival…
A Clear and Present Danger
We shall not return to the state anterior to discourse-in which nothing has yet been said, and in which things are only just beginning to emerge out of the grey light; and we shall not pass beyond discourse in order to rediscover the forms that it has created and left behind it; we shall remain, or try to remain, at the level of discourse itself...A task consists of not-of no longer-treating discourses as groups of signs (signifying elements refe…
Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West
Contextualizing the Salafi – Sufi conflict (from the Northern Caucasus to Hadramawt)
In late August – early September of 1999, when the so-called Russian ‘anti-terrorist’ operation in Daghestan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, was in full swing following its invas
The Lone Wolf and the Bear
Dreams and Visions in Islamic Societies
Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency
Interpretations and uses of Islam are legion today. Some call for improving or preserving the morals and dignity of a certain local Muslim community or of the global Muslim community (umma) in its entirety. Others are eager to demonstrate that Islam is fully compatible and, in fact, conducive to modernity, democratic governance, and technological advancement of humankind. Still others posit Islam as a powerful means of liberation from occupation …
Titelseiten
Islam in Historical Perspective
Islam in Historical Perspective organically integrates the history of Islamic societies with a discussion of how Muslim scriptures, laws, moral values and myths have shaped the lives and thought of individual Muslims and various Muslim communities from the rise of Islam until today. It provides introductory readers with a large body of carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vis…
Mark Sedgwick. Western Sufism
This erudite and informative book is a sequel to the author’s Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004). Whereas the latter discusses the vicissitudes of “traditionalism,” an amorphous religious-political and spiritual movement aimed at recovering the primeval “Oriental” belief and practice that the modern West has allegedly failed to appreciate and embrace, Western Sufism focuses…
Titelseiten
Sufism and Early Islamic Piety
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