Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi Adab: 1 (Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

Francesco Chiabotti; Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Luca Patrizi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004335099 ISBN 13: 9789004335097

Publisher: BRILL, 2016

Synopsis

This volume explores the relation between ethics and spirituality in Islam through an examination of the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until modernity.

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About the Author:

Francesco Chiabotti is research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology of the Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen. He holds a PhD from the University of Aix-Marseille (2014). His research focuses on the life and the works of Abd al-Karm al-Qushayr (d. 1072). Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire dEtudes sur les Monothéismes. She has published numerous books and articles on Sufism and Persian mystical literature. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of History of Modern Islam at the Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales, Paris, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published several books on Sufism and popular Islam, especially in Egypt. Luca Patrizi, Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille and Naples Universities, is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin and post-doc Labex at the University of Paris. His main areas of research are Religious and Islamic Studies, and Sufism.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9004335099
• ISBN 13: 9789004335097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 734