Visualizing Sufism

Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51608-3 (ISBN)

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Visualizing Sufism gathers the largest collection of graphic materials found in Sufi literature and body of studies on the subject ever brought together, undertaken by an international team of experts on the basis of a vast selection of manuscript sources.

Visualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticism—Ibn al-ʿArabī, Aḥmad al-Būnī, Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh, al-Shaʿrānī—, and in intellectual networks—Ḥurūfiyya and Bektashiyya, Shīrīn Maghribī and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history.

Contributors

Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.

Giovanni Maria Martini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Naples L’Orientale, is a research fellow at that university. His primary areas of interest are the history of Sufism, the history of the occult sciences in the Islamicate world, and Qurʾanic Studies. Contributors Elizabeth Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.

Acknowledgements

List of Plates

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Giovanni Maria Martini

1 Diagrams and Visionary Experience in al-Būnī’s (d. 622/1225) Laṭāʾif al-ishārāt fī al-ḥurūf al-ʿulwīyat

Noah Gardiner

2 Illustrating the Forms: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Images in al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya

Ali Karjoo-Ravary

3 Visualizing the Architecture of the Universe: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) Diagrams in Chapter 371 of the Meccan Openings

Sophie Tyser

4 Reading and Reciting the Qurʾan: Calligraphic Spaces in Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh’s (d. 649/1252) Kitāb al-Maḥbūb

Elizabeth Alexandrin

5 Use of Diagrams in the Ḥurūfī and Nuqṭavī Manuscripts, and Possible Links between the Ḥurūfī ‘Verbal’ and the Bektashi Visual Iconographies

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

6 Shīrīn Maghribī’s (d. 810/1407) Visual Sufism: Diagrams, Intellectual Networks, and the Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge in 14th Century Tabriz and beyond

Giovanni Maria Martini

7 “Sensible Images”: Pictograms in the Manuscript Transmission of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī’s (d. 973/1565) al-Mīzān al-kubrā

Evyn Kropf

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Islamicate Intellectual History ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	725 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-51608-5 / 9004516085
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51608-3 / 9789004516083
Zustand	Neuware