The question of the origin of Islamic mysticism has been one of the major concerns of many researchers in the field of mysticism in the recent decades. Some have maintained that Islamic mysticism is ...an imported product: a combination of Eastern spiritual traditions or a mixture of Manichaeism and Alexandrian philosophy. However, in order to find out the real origin of Islamic mysticism, the best way is to investigate the main questions of Islamic mysticism and to trace them in the Islamic culture and tradition. Reflecting on the personal unity of existence, the most important principle of Islamic mysticism, the author shows that Muslim mystics have been so inspired by the teachings of the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet and the Imams that there remains no need to look for the origin of Islamic mysticism outside the Muslim tradition.
In this article, I will discuss the integration of the Sufi ideas into the Iranian ways of thinking. I will put forward some factors, which explain the reason why Sufi ideas could impact the Iranian ...ways of thinking and become an integrated part of it. This issue is important since one of the reasons for several social problems from which the Iranian society suffers can be found in the Iranian group-oriented ways of thinking and the lack of an individual-oriented perspective concerning every citizen’s not only rights but duties as well. The mystical dimension of Iranian ways of thinking is regarded as one of the factors, which counteracted the growth of concern for the individual self in the ways of thinking of Iranians.
Fikrî ve ruhani yapının şekillenmesinde önemli bir rol oynayan din ve tasavvuf, aynı zamanda, toplumların kültürünü oluşturan unsurlar içindedir. Başka bir ifadeyle, bireylerin hayatlarında inanç, ...mühim bir yer tutar. Sosyal hayatta özel bir yere sahip olan bahsi geçen kavramlar, sanat dünyasında da pek çok romana konu olur. Sanatkârlar bazı eserlerinde, varoluşundan bu yana inanma ihtiyacı içerisinde olan insanın hayatındaki din duygusunun ve tasavvufun yerini vurgular. İşte Cumhuriyet dönemi Türk edebiyatı yazarlarından Afet (Muhteremoğlu) Ilgaz da din ve tasavvuf konusuna kayıtsız kalmayarak bu konulardan romanlarında geniş bir biçimde söz eder. Çalışmamızda, Afet Ilgaz’ın romanlarında dinî ve tasavvufi unsurlar üzerinde durularak yazarın söz konusu olan meseleleri işleyişi verilmeye çalışılmıştır.
Sufism has shaped the history and social lives of the Malays—one of the largest Muslim populations in the world today—for many centuries. But in recent decades, reformist and modernist forces have ...challenged the role of Sufism as a pivotal aspect of Malay–Muslim life in their pursuit to purify Islam from what they perceived as external influences that have crept into the age-old faith. This has given rise to polarizations within local Malay societies. This article examines the intellectual interventions and contributions of a prominent Indonesian scholar and religious reformer, Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah (1908–81), popularly known as “Hamka,” amidst the debates over the place of Sufism in the Malay World. The author shows how Hamka sought to reorient Sufism in the Malay World by offering fresh interpretations of the origins, parameters, and purposes of Sufism.
As You Are Now Homerin, Th. Emil
Journal of Arabic literature,
01/2017, Letnik:
48, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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The 7th/13th century Damascene poet Muḥammad Ibn Isrā’īl (d. 677/1278) was noted for his dedicated discipleship to the controversial Sufi ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī and for his elegant mystical Arabic verse. ...Based on his belief in Divine Oneness, Ibn Isrā’īl claimed that all of his poems were in praise of God. This article will closely read two elegies that Ibn Isrā’īl composed following the tragic death of his adult daughter. In them, Ibn Isrā’īl drew from both the classical Arabic elegiac tradition and Muslim beliefs in immortality to forge a rhetoric of transformation, which denies the ultimate finality of his daughter’s death and reaffirms her continued life in God’s presence, where they may yet meet again. Moreover, these elegies for a daughter are indicative of new trends in Arabic poetry in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods—namely, a focus on more personal matters—only rarely seen in pre-Islamic or classical Arabic verse.
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