Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze By Lloyd Ridgeon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12237409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oliver Scharbrodt (0000-0003-0439-1283, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-496 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Islamic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-2340 • E-ISSN: 1471-6917 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jis/etaa020 |
| OpenAlex | W3085739804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Lloyd Ridgeon’s book provides a study of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238 Ce), one of the most prominent Sufis in his time. He came originally from the Iranian city of Kerman and moved to Baghdad to study. At the height of his career, he was appointed by the ʿAbbasid caliph to lead one of the most important Sufi convents in the city. As an itinerant Sufi, Kirmānī was active and lived in Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia. He left quatrains in Persian as the only written legacy of his Sufi teachings. Despite his prominence in his time, Kirmānī’s place in and contribution to Sufism of that period have been neglected. Ridgeon’s book provides the first academic study on him in a Western language (after studies produced in Persian and Turkish) and marks therefore an important and original contribution to understanding the various actors, their relationships and their approaches to and
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Islam · Linguistics · Period (music · Persian · Sufism · Theology · Turkish · Families in Therapy and Culture · Islamic Studies and History · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |