Awhad Al-Din Kirmani and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze

ISBN-13: 9780367889401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str.

Lloyd Ridgeon

Opis

This is the first monograph in any Western language about the life and controversy of a 13^th century Persian Sufi called Awhad al-Din Kirmani. The aim of the book is to place Kirmani within the context of 13^th century Persianate Sufism, and demonstrate that the controversy shows that Sufism in this period was not a fixed or

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I  1. Persianate Sufism in the Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries  2. The Rise of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī  3. The Fall of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī  4. Friend or Foe? Ibn Jawzī’s Criticisms of shāhid bāzī assessed through Kirmānī’s hagiography  Conclusion  Part II  The Virtues of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī  Notes to the Anecdotes

O autorze

Lloyd Ridgeon specialises in Sufism, particularly the medieval Persian Sufi tradition. His 1996 PhD on the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi, ʿAzīz Nasafī has been published in the Sufi Series, as have his monographs on Aḥmad Kasravī and on Javānmardī. He is the Editor of IRAN, and also the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.