Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism

Naser Dumairieh, Ph.D. (2018) McGill University, is a researcher in post-classical Islamic philosophy and the relationship between Sufism and theology. He has published critical editions and articles related to the intellectual history of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, including a critical edition of al-Barzanjī’s al-Jādhib al-ghaybī, and another book entitled Sufism in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism is in progress.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: When All Roads Led to the Ḥijāz



1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global and Local Context

 1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Global Context

 2 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Local Context

 3 Conclusion



2 Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century

 1 Educational Institutions in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century

 2 Rational Sciences in the Ḥijāz

 3 Isnād as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz

 4 How the Rational Sciences Reached the Ḥijāz

 5 Conclusion



3 Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī’s Life, Education, Teachers, and Students

 1 Al-Kūrānī’s Life

 2 Al-Kūrānī’s Education

 3 Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers

 4 Al-Kūrānī’s Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time

 5 Al-Kūrānī’s Students

 6 Al-Kūrānī’s Affiliation to Sufi Orders

 7 Conclusion



4 Al-Kūrānī’s Works

 1 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Examined)

 2 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Inaccessible)

 3 Works Misattributed to al-Kūrānī

 4 Conclusion



5 Al-Kūrānī’s Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought

 1 God is Absolute Existence (al-wujūd al-muṭlaq or al-wujūd al-maḥḍ)

 2 God’s Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (taʾwīl)

 3 God’s Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms

 4 Nafs al-amr in al-Kūrānī’s Thought

 5 Ashʿarites and Mental Existence

 6 Realities: Uncreated Nonexistent Quiddities

 7 God’s Knowledge of Particulars

 8 Creation

 9 Unity and Multiplicity

 10 Destiny and Predetermination

 11 Kasb: Free Will and Predestination

 12 The Unity of the Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)

 13 Waḥdat al-Wujūd

 14 Conclusion



6 Al-Kūrānī’s Other Theological and Sufi Thought

 1 The Faith of Pharaoh

 2 The Precedence of God’s Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fanāʾ al-nār)

 3 Satanic Verses

 4 Preference for the Reality of the Kaʿba or for the Muḥammadan Reality

 5 God’s Speech (kalām Allāh)

 6 Conclusion



Conclusion



Appendix 1: Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text

Appendix 2: Al-Kūrānī’s Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text

Appendix 3: Al-Kūrānī’s Works Ordered Alphabetically

Bibliography

Index