ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī

Aydogan Kars, Ph.D. (2016) is a Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. His first book, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam was awarded a Special Mention of Excellence for the 2019 Alberigo Award by the European Academy of Religion. Ashkan Bahrani is PhD candidate of religious studies in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His main field of research is premodern Sufism as well as method and theory in the study of religion.

Acknowledgements

List of Tables, Figures and Illustrations



General Introduction



1 Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba: al-Suhrawardī’s Mentors in Sufism

 1 Introduction: Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī

 2 Companionship and the Genealogies of al-Suhrawardī

 3 Notes on the Edition

 4 Arabic Edition and English Translation of Nisbat al-Ṣuḥba

 5 Analysis: The Immediate Masters of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī in the Genealogy

 6 Reconstruction of ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī’s Training and Travels

 7 Abū al-Najīb al-Suhrawardī’s Genealogy of Companionship

 8 Conclusion



2 Irshād al-Murīdīn wa Injād al-Ṭālibīn

 1 Introduction

 2 Irshād al-Murīdīn: What Is in a Title?

 3 Reception

 4 Technical Observations and Edition Information

 5 Arabic Critical Edition of Irshād al-Murīdīn

 6 English Translation of Irshād al-Murīdīn: Chapters on the Attire and Travel



3 Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr

 1 Introduction: Majd al-Dīn al-Baghdādī and al-Suhrawardī

 2 Reception

 3 Sources

 4 Notes on the Arabic Edition and the Manuscripts: Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr and Risāla fī-l-Sulūk

 5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr

 6 The Persian Text of Risālat al-Sayr wa-l-Ṭayr in MS Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 1589



4 Al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya fī-l-Rūḥ

 1 Introduction

 2 Debates on the Spirit in Thirteenth Century Central Asian Sufism

 3 Gender, Familial and Ontological Hierarchies

 4 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition

 5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya

 6 Persian Text of al-Lawāmiʿ al-Ghaybiyya



5 Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr

 1 Introduction

 2 Poverty and Affluence

 3 Reception

 4 Notes on the Edition

 5 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla fī-l-Ghināʾ wa-l-Faqr



6 Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd

 1 Introduction

 2 Persian Text and English Translation of Risāla dar Kār-i Murīd



7 Futūḥāt

 1 Introduction

 2 Transmission

 3 Notes on the Manuscripts and the Edition

 4 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of the Futūḥāt



8 Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān

 1 Introduction

 2 Notes on the Edition and the Manuscripts of Ṣifat-i Khalvat

 3 Persian Critical Edition and English Translation of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān

 4 Turkish Text of Ṣifat-i Khalvat va Ādāb-i Ān in MS Hacı Selim Ağa



9 Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

 1 Introduction

 2 Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Risāla ilā Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī



10 Sharḥ al-Faqr

 1 Introduction: Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān al-Abharī and al-Suhrawardī

 2 Arabic Critical Edition of Sharḥ al-Faqr



11 Risāla dar Tavba

 1 Introduction

 2 Persian Text and an English Translation of Risāla dar Tavba



12 Ijāza ilā Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī

 1 Introduction: Multān and the Transmission of the ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif

 2 Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ al-Multānī

 3 Arabic Text and an English Translation of Ijāza ilā Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ



13 Manuscript Information

 1 Opera Suhrawardiana

 2 Other Manuscripts



Illustrations

Bibliography

Index of Qurʾānic Verses

Index of Persons

General Index