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Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for Suhraward Sufis (Routledge Sufi Series) - Softcover

Book 4 of 37: Routledge Sufi

Huda, Qamar-ul

 
9780700716876: Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises for Suhraward Sufis (Routledge Sufi Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0700716874 ISBN 13: 9780700716876
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

This book examines the theological, philosophical and Islamic mystical dimensions of the Suhrawardî sufi order from the 13th to 15th centuries. The Suhrawardîs were a legally grounded and intellectually vibrant sufi order whose mystical path was based on exchanges and debates on the Qur'an and on the Prophet's customs. The book analyses their interpretation of sacred texts: the Qur'an, hadiths, sunna, and malfuzat. This created a unique self-understanding, which developed specific sufi spiritual exercises. The book discusses new important ways of thinking about the sufi hermeneutics of the Qur'an and its contribution to Islamic intellectual and spiritual life.

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About the Author

Qamar-ul Huda is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Theology at Boston College and writes about medieval Islamic texts and mystical sufi treatises. He earned his doctorate from UCLA in the field of Islamic intellectual history and currently is working on sufi commentaries of the Qur'an and is translating a number of sufi treatises dealing with the Suhrawardi sufi path.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0700716874
ISBN 13 
9780700716876
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240