The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

Denis Gril (Ph.D. 1983, Habilitation 1993 Aix-en-Provence): Professor emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Aix-Marseille, IREMAM. His main areas of research are the work of Ibn al-ʿArabī, the history of Sufism and the scriptural foundations of spirituality in Islam. Stefan Reichmuth (Ph. D. 1983 Berlin, Habilitation 1992 Bayreuth): retired Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Bochum University. Research on Islam and Arabic in Africa, Islamic Education, scholarly networks. Publications include: “Aspects of Prophetic Piety in the Early Modern Period” (2017). Dilek Sarmis (Ph.D. Paris 2016), EHESS (Paris), Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg. Specialist in intellectual history and history of knowledge in the late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, working on conservatisms and on the history of social sciences in Turkey. Contributors Hiba Abid, Nelly Amri, Caterina Bori, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Adrien de Jarmy, Daniel De Smet, Mohamed Thami El Harrak, Brigitte Foulon, Denis Gril, Christiane Gruber, Tobias Heinzelmann, David Jordan, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Samuela Pagani, Alexandre Papas, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Meryem Sebti, Dilek Sarmis, Matthieu Terrier, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Marc Toutant, Ruggiero Vimercati Sanseverino.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



The Presence of the Prophet: General Introduction

 Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth



The Prophet between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Introduction to Volume I

 Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis



part 1: Images of the Prophet in Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, and Sīra/Maghāzī, and their Cultural Embedding

1 The Prophet in the Qurʾān

An Attempt at a Synthesis

 Denis Gril



2 Dating the Emergence of the Warrior-Prophet in Maghāzī Literature

Second/Eighth to the Fourth/Tenth Century

 Adrien de Jarmy



3 Ḥadīth Culture and Ibn Taymiyya’s Controversial Legacy in Early Fifteenth Century Damascus

Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and His al-Radd Al-Wāfir (d. 842/1438)

 Caterina Bori



4 “There Is Matter for Thought”

The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century

 Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen



part 2: Towards a Theology of Devotion to the Prophet in Sunnī Islam

5 Theology of Veneration of the Prophet Muḥammad

Doctrine and Love in the Shifāʾ of al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544/1149)

 Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino



6 “Special Features of the Prophet” (Khaṣāʾiṣ nabawiyya)

From Jurisprudence to Devotion

 Michele Petrone



7 Modèle prophétique et modèle de sainteté dans le soufisme ancien

Quelques exemples

 Pierre Lory



8 L’éducation par « la lumière de la foi du Prophète » selon le shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh (m. 1332/1719)

D’après le Kitāb al-Ibrīz de Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak (m. 1156/1743)

 Jean-Jacques Thibon



part 3: The Prophet in Shīʿī Doctrine and in Islamic Philosophy

9 The Prophet Muḥammad in Imāmī Shīʿism

Between History and Metaphysics

 Mathieu Terrier



10 The Prophet Muḥammad and His Heir ʿAlī

Their Historical, Metahistorical and Cosmological Roles in Ismāʿīlī Shīʿism

 Daniel De Smet



11 La dimension éthique et politique de la révélation prophétique chez les falāsifa

 Meryem Sebti



part 4: The Splendour of Words: Exaltation of the Prophet in Islamic Literatures

12 “I Have Mandated It to Fly to You on the Wings of My Ardent Desire”

Letter to the Prophet Written by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1375) on Behalf of the Naṣrid Ruler of Granada

 Nelly Amri



13 Les poèmes d’éloge du Prophète de Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khāṭīb (713-776/1313-1374 ou 75)

 Brigitte Foulon



14 Présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique (madīḥ) et de l’audition spirituelle (samāʿ)

Approche thématique

 Mohamed Thami El Harrak



15 Timurid Accounts of Ascension (miʿrāj) in Türkī

One Prophet, Two Models

 Marc Toutant



16 Miʿrāciyye

The Ascension of the Prophet in Ottoman Literature from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century

 Alexandre Papas



part 5: The Prophet in the Mirror of the Verbal, Scriptural and Pictorial Imagery: Aesthetics and Devotion

17 The Reality and Image of the Prophet according to the Theologian and Poet ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

 Samuela Pagani



18 The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles

 Christiane Gruber



19 Visualising the Prophet – Rhetorical and Graphic Aspects of Three Ottoman-Turkish Poems

Süleymān Çelebi’s Vesīlet en-Necāt, Yazıcıoğlı’s Risāle-i Muḥammedīye, and Ḫāḳānī’s Ḥilye

 Tobias Heinzelmann



20 The World of al-Qandūsī (d. 1278/1861)

Prophetology and Calligraphy in Morocco During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

 Francesco Chiabotti and Hiba Abid



Index