Mystical Traditions: Approaches to Peaceful Coexistence

ISBN-13: 9783031271205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Muhammad Shafiq; Thomas Donlin-Smith

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This book discusses mysticism and its possible contributions to a positive common human future. It is organized into three parts - “Studies of Mystical Traditions,” “Comparative Studies of Mystical Traditions,” and “Social and Ethical Implications." The approach is philosophical and critical. The contributors differ on whether or not mystical traditions would restore peaceful living and peaceful coexistence. However, the problem before this manuscript is the growing pain and suffering caused by greed in the world, greed causing economic disequilibrium, racism and divisiveness causing social unrest resulting in mass migration and refugees’ crisis.   Through the lens of “mystical traditions," the manuscript proposes a balance approach between material and spiritual needs of people. To strengthen human spiritualty, the manuscript emphasizes practicing meditation, music, prayers, zikr, yoga, mindfulness, fasting and other methods of spiritual revival for peace within self and with others. 

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Part One: Studies of Mystical Traditions

1. Mysticism, Visual Art, and Repairing the World in a Strife-ridden Secular Age  

 

2. The Zen Arts—A Mystical Entry Point  to a World of Oneness 

3. Jewish Mysticism: Teachings About Unity and Discord

4.  “The Immense Oceans of God’s Love:”  Rumi’s Oceanic Imagery           

5. Benedictine Evangelicalism: Human Flourishing, Peacemaking, and Protestant Pedagogy Today             

6. The Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order Approach to Peaceful Coexistence Through Mawlana Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani’s Words and Actions    

 

Part Two: Comparative Studies of Mystical Traditions

7. Life’s Great Questions and the Abstract Sacred: Cupitt’s New Religion of the Everyday in the Global Context     

8. Transcending The Letter, Awakening the Mind: Maximos the Confessor and Tsong Kha Pa and The Challenge of Textual Supersessionism

9. On The Rasā’il of the Ikhwān al Ṣafā’ and Bonaventure’s Mind’s Road into God

10. Beyond Separations: Mystics Merging Across Time and Space              

11. Al-Fana’ in Ibn ‘Arabi’s and Eckhart’s Thoughts: The Annihilation of the Many in the One         

 

Part Three: Social and Ethical Implications

12. Identity, Prejudice, and Mysticism: Exploring Sustainable Narratives of Peace Across Religious Borders             

13. Migration and the Mystical-theological tradition: Migration Experiences and the Experience of a Dark Night   

14. Polishing the Mirror of the Heart: Sufi Poetic Reflections as Interfaith Inspiration for Peace    

15. Eschatological Politics and Intellectual Jihad: Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris legacy in Europe

16. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s on the Duties of Brotherhood as a Modern Guide for Peaceful Coexistence    

17. Marriage in “Sharī‘a and Ḥaqīqa”:Mystical Marriage in the Thought of Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ṭāhā      

18. Concluding Remarks

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 Muhammad Shafiq is a professor of religious studies at Nazareth College. He directs the Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and holds the Chair for Islamic and Interfaith Studies at the International Institute for Islamic Thought. He recently published a co-edited volume with Palgrave entitled The (De)Legitimization of Violence in Sacred and Human Contexts (2021).

Thomas Donlin-Smith is a professor of religious studies at Nazareth College. He recently published a co-edited volume with Palgrave entitled The (De)Legitimization of Violence in Sacred and Human Contexts (2021).