Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz Before Wahhabism

Ibrāhīm Al-Kūrānī's (D. 1101/1690) Theology of Sufism
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72967-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Islamicate Intellectual History

In Intellectual Life in the Hijaz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Hijaz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts.

Positioning Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Hijaz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalam and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kurani’s work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn 'Arabi’s ideas with Ash'ari theology, Ibn 'Arabi’s ideas became Islamic theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dumairieh, Naser

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: When All Roads Led to the ?ijaz

1 The Seventeenth-Century ?ijaz in Its Global and Local Context 1 The Seventeenth-Century ?ijaz in its Global Context 2 The Seventeenth-Century ?ijaz in its Local Context 3 Conclusion

2 Intellectual Life in the ?ijaz in the Seventeenth Century 1 Educational Institutions in the ?ijaz in the Seventeenth Century 2 Rational Sciences in the ?ijaz 3 Isnad as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century ?ijaz 4 How the Rational Sciences Reached the ?ijaz 5 Conclusion

3 Ibrahim al-Kurani’s Life, Education, Teachers, and Students 1 Al-Kurani’s Life 2 Al-Kurani’s Education 3 Al-Kurani’s Teachers 4 Al-Kurani’s Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time 5 Al-Kurani’s Students 6 Al-Kurani’s Affiliation to Sufi Orders 7 Conclusion

4 Al-Kurani’s Works 1 Al-Kurani’s Works (Examined) 2 Al-Kurani’s Works (Inaccessible) 3 Works Misattributed to al-Kurani 4 Conclusion

5 Al-Kurani’s Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought 1 God is Absolute Existence (al-wujud al-mu?laq or al-wujud al-ma??) 2 God’s Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (ta?wil) 3 God’s Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms 4 Nafs al-amr in al-Kurani’s Thought 5 Ash?arites 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 (wa?dat al-?ifat) 13 Wa?dat al-Wujud 14 Conclusion

6 Al-Kurani’s Other Theological and Sufi Thought 1 The Faith of Pharaoh 2 The Precedence of God’s Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fana? al-nar) 3 Satanic Verses 4 Preference for the Reality of the Ka?ba or for the Mu?ammadan Reality 5 God’s Speech (kalam Allah) 6 Conclusion

Conclusion

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

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

Appendix 3: Al-Kurani’s Works Ordered Alphabetically

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Hijaz, including a critical edition of al-Barzanji’s al-Jadhib al-ghaybi, and another book entitled Sufism in the Hijaz before Wahhabism is in progress.