Ibn Taymiyya and his Circle on samāʿ
A means to Purify Sufism? (with an Arabic edition of al-Wāsiṭī’s (d. 711/1311) Bulgha)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12192248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arjan Post (0000-0003-3838-011X, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, https://dx.doi.org/26657KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, corresponding author), Sarah Van Eyken (PhD candidate, Arabic and Islamic Studies, https://dx.doi.org/26657KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-41 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Islamic Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0928-9380 • E-ISSN: 1568-5195 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685195-bja10051 |
| OpenAlex | W4395048430 |
| Language | EN |
By examining polemical treatises on Sufi samāʿ or ‘spiritual audition’, written by scholars with a Ḥanbalī or traditionalist orientation, we assess the strategies and rhetorical devices that they used to discuss the status of samāʿ within their tradition. Our exploration reveals a clear difference in approach between pre-Taymiyyan scholars, on the one hand, and ‘Taymiyyan’ scholars, including Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) himself, on the other. Unlike their predecessors, the latter systematically refer to the legacy of esteemed figures from the formative period of Sufism, such as al-Junayd (d. 289/910) and some of his contemporaries, invoking his spiritual authority to consolidate the relation between Ahl al-Ḥadīth traditionalism and what they considered to be Sufism in its ‘true’ form
Arabic · Art · Epistemology · Formative assessment · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Mathematics education · Relation (database · Rhetorical question · Sufism · Theology · Classics · Computer Science · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Islamic Studies and History · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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