Index
ʿAbbāsid(s)
16, 180
~ caliphs
167n54
~ court
167, 173
~ territories
166, 175
al-Abharī, Majd al-Dīn (13th c.)
238n25
ablutions
79
Abraham (prophet)
191–192
Abrū, Ḥāfiẓ (d. 1340)
224
abstract
~ concept
9, 132
~ discourse. See discourse: abstract
~ knowledge. See knowledge: abstract
~ machine
107, 109, 132–133, 135, 140, 142
~ principles
124, 191
~ speculation. See speculation: abstract
~ theory
4, 10, 13, 16, 79, 221
~ thought
11
abstraction
17, 20, 77–78, 82n21, 104
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Khafīf (d. 982)
7n13, 224, 232n4
Abū Bakr (caliph) (d. 634)
167, 207n43
Abu Deeb, Kamal
212
Abū Hurayra (d. 678)
205, 207
Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ (d. 837)
127
Abuali, Eyad
173n69, 236n19, 243n1
accusative case
43, 119
Adam (prophet)
31n20, 37, 47, 85, 100, 114, 116, 189, 190, 193–195
adaptation
27n8, 126, 201n35
Addas, Claude
87n34, 159nn31–32
al-Adkānī, Najm al-Dīn ʿUthmān ibn al-Muwaffaq (13th c.)
241
affiliation
16, 18–19, 181–183, 245, 247
affinity
16, 51, 57, 84n26, 95, 105, 181, 182n92, 199, 212
afterlife
33–34, 65, 69–70, 150, 224, 227, 241n41
ahl al-bayt
177, 181, 184
Akbarī(s)
243–244
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad (Khwārazmshāh) (d. 1220)
234–235
alchemy
47, 60
Alexandrin, Elizabeth Ross
100n62, 109n4, 110n6, 120–121, 145n3, 193n15, 216, 231n3, 247
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (caliph) (d. 661)
174n71, 181, 235n14, 236n17
ʿAlī Lālā, Raḍī al-Dīn (d. 1244)
173, 236
alif (letter)
37, 42–44, 46–48, 50, 58n60, 60–62, 71, 114, 136, 189, 193, 194n16, 200n32, 204
divine ~
37, 42, 51
Allāh. See God
allegiance
16, 177, 182, 245
allusion(s)
20, 24, 32n21, 42, 48–49, 57, 64, 66, 74, 78, 86, 88, 90, 94, 96, 99n58, 101, 106, 112, 116, 118, 136–137, 201, 204, 210, 225
~ (al-kināya)
100
~ (ramz)
201–204
ambigious ~
140
conceptual ~
88
intertextual ~
50
ironic ~
88n35, 106
Qurʾānic ~
49, 62, 97, 100, 121, 210
structural ~
126, 214
technical ~
50
thematic ~
88
alms
31n20, 34
ambiguity
131, 181n92, 184, 222n3
ambiguous meanings
135
ʿAmmūyas (Banū ʿAmmūya)
167–168
amulets
128–131
Anatolia
160n32
ancestor
162, 173, 175, 180
anecdote(s)
5, 150, 153–154, 184, 232n4, 233n4, 241n41
personal ~
151, 222
angels
61, 82, 85–87
See also Azrael, Gabriel, Israfel, Michael
al-Anṣārī, ʿAbd Allāh (d. 1089)
49n46, 233
al-Anṣārī, Abū Ayyūb (d. 674)
233
antagonism
173n69, 240n37, 243
apocalypticism
93
apostasy
29–30
apostle
99, 149
apostleship
149
al-Aqṣā Mosque
235
Arabic
~ alphabet
19, 24, 26, 59, 60, 63
~ grammar
119
~ language
36, 216
~ letter(s). See letter: Arabic
~ letterforms
44, 126, 129
~ scripts
42
~ texts
32n22
~ writing
61
al-Arghiyānī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥakīm (13th c.)
69n86, 237
Arghun Aqā (d. 1275)
178
argument(s)
9, 109, 112, 145, 164n45, 174, 176–178, 180, 204, 241n41
intellectual ~
148
logical ~
67
metaphysical ~
51
philosophical ~
35
Aristotelian
27n8
~ philosophy
28n10, 156
Aristotle
27n8
articulation(s)
3, 12, 61, 64, 74, 89, 177, 181
asceticism
18, 245
Ashʿarī
130, 171, 172n65
askēsis
78, 115, 117, 140–141
al-ʿAsqalānī, Ibn Ḥajar (d. 1449)
172n66
Āstān-i Quds Library
110
Astarābādī, Faḍl Allāh (d. 1394)
227
astrology
60
atom
98, 100–101, 104
primordial ~ (dharra)
98–102
Attribute(s)
30, 32n20, 42, 44, 47–48, 51n51, 53, 66, 72, 85–86, 92, 95, 100, 122, 150, 170, 179, 189, 195–196, 202, 206
Divine ~
29–30, 48, 50, 82n21, 85–86, 124, 137–139, 188–192, 195, 197, 202
audience
3, 5, 11–12, 15, 17–18, 21, 77, 91, 93, 96, 102, 131–132, 141, 145, 172, 175, 184, 186–187, 197, 199, 206–207, 212, 214–215, 221–222
authority
6, 8, 13, 26, 31n20, 35, 59n63, 72, 74n94, 105–106, 109, 130, 143–145, 150, 153, 156, 160–161, 163, 165–167, 171n65, 174, 176, 219, 223–227, 235n12, 236n15, 238
genealogical ~
145, 175–177, 181
ideological ~
8
institutional ~
6, 234
legal ~
184
messianic ~
247
miraculous ~
214–215
political ~
184
religio-political ~
176
saintly ~
21, 119, 185, 188, 198, 219, 226
spiritual ~. See spiritual: authority
worldly ~
16
awe
101, 130
Awliyāʾ, Niẓām al-Dīn (d. 1325)
232n3, 233n4
āyas
135
al-Aykī, Shams al-Dīn (d. 1298)
87n33
ʿayn (letter)
60–62, 138
ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī (d. 1131)
162n37, 162, 233
Ayyūbid(s)
16, 87, 144, 163, 164, 169, 171, 175, 222n3, 235
~ authorities
171n65
~ courts
173
~ dynasty
21
~ territories
145, 166, 171, 175, 240
Azrael (angel)
53, 55
al-Baghawī, Ḥusayn ibn Masʿūd (d. 1122)
69n86, 237
Baghdad
6, 69n86, 162n39, 168n54, 235, 237–238
al-Baghdādī, Majd al-Dīn (d. 1219)
173, 233n4, 236, 243n1, 245
Bahāʾī (Shaykh) (d. 1621)
8
Baḥrābād
166, 175, 224, 232, 234–235, 240n38, 242
Bākharzī, Sayf al-Dīn (d. 1261)
16, 90, 93, 107, 116, 173, 233n4, 236, 237n20
balance
87
Ballanfat, Paul
194n15, 231n3, 247
Banū ʿAmmūya. See ʿAmmūyas
baraka, barakat.
See grace
basmala
127, 150
bāṭin
121, 189, 196, 225, 229
Bauer, Thomas
222n3
bee
204–209
beloved
94–95, 100, 102–103, 121, 195n20, 199–211, 215
Bender, John
132n55, 133
Berthold of Nuremburg (fl. late 13th c.)
132
bewilderment (ḥayra)
67–68, 74, 146
Bibliothèque nationale de France
128
al-Bidlīsī, ʿAmmār (d. between 1194 and 1207/8)
152–154, 159, 164
Bilāl
205–208, 211, 219
binary
4n5, 148, 183, 189, 191n9, 195, 197
~ oppositions
210
See also life and death
biography
5, 160n32, 231–232, 235n13, 245–247
birth
144, 223, 241n40, 245
al-Birzālī (d. 1338/1339)
224n4
al-Biṣtāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 1454)
110n5
al-Bisṭāmī, Abū Yazīd (d. 848 or 875)
161n33
blackness
1, 53, 57
blessings
33, 70, 73, 111n8, 119, 209
blood
144, 175, 223
bond(s)
6, 99, 143–144, 153, 154n18, 156, 159–160, 166, 166n51, 168–169, 174, 223, 237
familial ~
171, 240
father-son ~
175
genealogical ~
184
interpersonal ~
21, 169, 172, 222n3
master-disciple ~
160
social ~
11, 18–19, 174, 222n3, 224, 229
spiritual ~. See spiritual: bond
Böwering, Gerhard
79n7, 164n45
bowing
85–87, 115
Brack, Jonathan
176n76
brotherhood
166
Buddhist(s)
176n76
Buḥayrābādh
175
al-Būnī, Aḥmad (d. 1225 or 1232/1233)
36n28, 110n5, 128–130, 139
Cairo
87, 162, 164n45, 240
caliphs
167–168, 182
See also Abū Bakr, ʿAlī, ʿUmar
Carullah MS 1541
110–111, 113n10, 115, 120n30, 125n42, 137n67, 137n67, 236n17, 237n20
catchphrases
135, 139
Central Asia
3, 16, 141n76, 141n76, 237
certainty
32, 47, 115, 154
certificate(s)
~ of investiture (nisbat al-khirqa)
163, 163n40, 241
teaching ~
3, 10
Chamberlain, Michael
168
charms
126, 129
Chin Temür (d. 1235)
178
Chinggis Khān (d. 1227)
176, 180
Chittick, William
59, 155n22
Chodkiewicz, Michel
59, 219
circle(s)
24, 71, 85, 87, 95, 122, 124–126, 134, 136–137, 139–140, 162, 200, 208
~ of jabarūt
46
letterist ~
51, 94
~ of malakūt
46
~ of Nūn
71, 187, 200, 208–210
~ of Qāf
138
~ of Wāw
97, 102, 191
closeness
149, 156, 209
coherence
14, 26, 71
colleagues
18, 80n15, 143, 171, 183
Ḥamūya’s ~
3–4, 14–17, 77–78, 81, 86–87, 90–91, 106–107, 116, 118, 121, 144, 151, 160, 161, 167, 169, 221–223, 227, 247
Sufi ~
59n63, 74n94, 76, 83, 122, 239
colonialism
108
neo-~
108
Coltrane, John (Trane) (d. 1967)
2, 23, 77, 88, 97, 104–106
Ascension
77, 104
Meditations
2, 77, 88, 104
command
101, 193–194, 196, 205–206, 209, 236, 249
Commander
205
commitment
5, 14n30, 17, 19, 26, 36, 57, 74, 182, 184, 226
communication
12, 15, 199
companion(s)
24, 69n86, 99, 158–159, 234, 236n15, 237, 240
companionship (ṣuḥba)
147–148, 163, 168, 238n25
competition
5, 18, 118, 165, 168, 174n73
Sufi ~. See Sufi: competition
comportment
18, 34–35, 75, 165, 169
composition
92, 98, 111n8, 112, 156, 194n15, 214, 217–218, 238n24, 245
concealment
48–49, 136–137, 139
confusion
81, 145–146
conjunctions
179, 213
consonant
49, 60, 100, 119, 218
constraints
10, 74, 144, 189
contemplation
47, 103, 153
contemporaries
4, 13, 20, 68n85, 77–78, 83, 88–89, 90, 102, 108, 140, 161n33, 179, 217, 222–223
contentment
115
continuity
14
contradictions
4n5, 9, 103, 211
convention(s)
5, 12, 20, 88n, 95, 106, 108, 140, 203, 208, 228
analytical ~
16, 112
contemporary ~
223
disciplinary ~
97
established ~
76–77, 88–90, 112
genealogical ~
21, 144
generic ~
4, 76, 77n4, 83, 87, 89, 95–96, 120, 141, 184
genre ~
107, 133, 229
hegemonic ~
106
performative ~
223
shared ~
16, 21, 89, 106, 126
Sufi ~. See Sufi: conventions
textual ~
77n4, 129
visual ~
129
conversation(s)
19, 88, 159, 176n77, 212, 217
intimate ~ (munājāt)
90, 92–93, 96
conversion
6, 224
conviction (al-iʿtiqād)
100, 145
correspondence
1, 53, 57, 64, 104, 173, 180–182, 194n15, 219, 239n30, 246
personal ~
3, 21, 144, 162, 177
cosmogenesis
50, 60
cosmogony
48, 61
cosmology
64, 141
cosmos (universe)
1, 25, 30, 35–36, 40, 44–45, 49, 57, 65, 101, 122, 137, 189, 226–227
Coulon, Jean-Charles
129, 139n70
covenant (mīthāq)
99, 100, 102
COVID
19
creation
4n5, 31n20, 33, 40, 49–50, 59n63, 65, 85, 100–101, 116, 122, 136–137, 139, 188, 198, 206, 228n17
act of ~
136, 190
Creator
137, 140
credentials
154, 171, 173
critic(s)
17, 88, 212
criticism
31, 212
literary ~
212
critique
18, 20, 26, 30n18, 31, 34–36, 68, 73–75, 227
Culler, Jonathan
77n4
cycles
60, 190–192
prayer ~. See prayer: cycles
prophetic ~
241n41
saintly ~
241n41
Dadaists
14
Damascus
6, 111n8, 159n31, 162, 168, 194n15, 232n4, 234n7, 238–240
darkness(es) (ẓulumāt)
31–34, 51, 67, 83–84, 121, 148–149
Dāya Rāzī, Najm al-Dīn (d. 1256)
173
death
80, 149, 175, 195–197
~ and life. See life and death
volitional ~
158n28
deconstruction
4n5, 26, 76–77, 106, 108, 126, 226–227, 228n17
performative ~
76–77, 203, 223
playful ~
135, 141
deconstructive
~ approach
4, 145, 223, 225, 227
~ diagrams
133
~ dimension
77, 105
~ engagement
77, 96, 107
~ lettrism
226
~ methods (techniques, strategies)
5, 74, 112, 131, 137, 141
~ tendencies
14n30, 37, 120
~ vision. See vision: deconstructive
deferral(s)
198–199, 210–215, 225, 226n10
~ of meaning
16, 199, 203, 210–211, 216
definite articles
213
deity (ilāh)
29, 31
Deleuze, Gilles
107, 132–134
demon
82
denial
34, 94, 99
dependence
144, 152, 154, 166, 172, 216
depravity (fisq)
172n66
Derrida, Jacques
4n5, 14n30, 23, 48n44, 199
dervish
146, 148, 166, 171
descendant(s)
177, 180, 245
perfect ~
180
descent
85, 99, 176, 178, 193, 209–210
destiny
189
devil
34, 153
devotion
34, 36, 107, 116, 132, 149, 165, 228
dhikr(s)
73, 80, 90, 147–148, 152, 163, 167, 238, 239n33, 245
diagram(s)
arcane ~
20, 93, 108, 120
cosmological ~
20, 107, 122, 126, 129
deconstructive ~. See deconstructive: diagrams
esoteric ~
90, 247
Ḥamūya’s ~
109, 121, 126, 140
lettrist ~. See lettrist: diagram
shaykh’s ~
21
strange ~
112
tablet ~
135–139, 141–142
talismanic ~
20, 84n25, 107, 126, 130
text’s ~
129, 133
dialogue
91
diaries
78, 93, 156
spiritual ~
96, 106
Diderot, Denis (d. 1784)
133
digressions
24, 64, 96
Dihdār Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd (fl. 1576)
8
al-Dihistānī, Muḥammad al-Muʾadhdhan (13th c.)
235n13
DiPiero, Dan
203
disciple(s)
3, 21, 24, 69n86, 78, 81n15, 91, 143–144, 147–151, 153–155, 158–160, 164, 172, 173–184, 227, 232n4, 236–239, 241n41, 243n1, 244, 250
discipline(s)
19, 68–69, 97, 221
ascetic ~
8
emotional ~
80, 91
social ~
3
spiritual ~. See spiritual: discipline
disclosure(s) (kushūf)
37, 42, 189
self- ~
22, 25, 29–31, 35–36, 44, 45, 48–50, 58, 64, 66, 78, 89, 92, 103, 113, 121, 126, 137, 143–144, 146, 156–158, 188, 194–195, 198, 200, 214, 223, 239
discourse(s)
13, 18n36, 26, 58, 64, 82n21, 94, 97, 105, 145, 177, 180, 199, 210, 218, 222, 245
abstract ~
89, 91, 93, 210
allusive ~
24
analogous ~
125
apophatic ~
59n63
cosmic ~
45
esoteric ~
19
genealogical ~
180
lettrist ~. See lettrist: discourse
literary ~
77n4
meta- ~
202
political ~
177
scientific ~
122
Sufi ~
89, 107, 171n66
supplemental ~
122
theoretical ~
159, 177
dissonance
2, 26, 68, 230
distractions
153
Divine
~ Attributes. See attributes: divine
~ Book
198
~ Essence
25, 29–31, 40, 64–66, 101, 160, 187, 189–190, 202
~ grammar
207–208, 211, 219
~ inspiration
157, 171
~ knowledge
177, 239n33
~ law
31n20
~ love
8
~ message
31n20
~ mission
180
~ Name(s)
60n65, 63, 120, 122, 125–126, 137, 139, 197, 241n41
~ Nature
32n20
~ Presence(s) (ḥaḍarāt ilāhiyya)
61–62, 63n75, 81, 102n68
~ principles
193–194
~ provenance
218
~ qualities
101
~ Reality. See Reality: Divine
~ realms
86, 136
~ revelations
15, 92
~ secrets
54–65
~ self-disclosure. See self-disclosure: divine
~ speech
49
~ unity
26
~ wisdom
218
Divinity (ilāhiyya)
37, 47, 51, 149, 188–189
Diyarbakır
237
doctrine(s)
34, 57–58, 65, 137
dogmatism
30n18
Dolphy, Eric (d. 1964)
203
dream
7n13, 173, 174n71, 224–226, 232n4, 233n4
dynamism
59, 64, 66, 69, 97, 126, 141
earnestness
91
Egypt
6, 145, 162–166, 176, 222n3, 234–235, 237, 240, 240n35
Elias, Jamal
63n75, 111n8, 181, 216, 231, 242n43, 247
elite(s)
3, 18, 21, 63, 77, 99, 105, 140, 150n10, 168, 171–174, 215, 221n3, 223, 236
cultural ~
16, 166–167
educated ~
226
Mongol ~. See Mongol: elites
political ~
240
ruling ~
166
scholarly ~
168
spiritual ~
65
ellipsis (ḥadhf)
213–214
Elmore, Gerald T.
193n15, 194n15
elocution (al-lisān)
192
eloquence
212
elucidation (al-bayān)
192, 201
emotions
15, 80
emphatic particles
213
encompassing (iḥāṭat)
46, 48
encyclopedias
14, 244, 246
encyclopedism
14
endowment (waqf)
10, 166, 177
entities
18–19, 25, 30, 44–45, 57, 69, 72, 97, 101, 138–139, 145, 202, 227
envy
29
epistemology
5, 12, 17, 19, 25, 34, 57, 105, 130, 143, 145
epistle(s)
25, 35n26, 72, 74, 74n94, 79, 80n15, 81, 162n36, 165–166, 166n51, 177, 180–181, 194n15, 239n30, 240
Essence (al-dhāt)
25, 30–31, 32n20, 44, 51n51, 53, 57, 100, 157–158, 170, 197
Divine ~. See divine: essence
eternity (azal, dahr)
62, 70, 73, 101
ethics
27, 87, 222n3
etiquette (adab)
18, 84, 91–93, 147, 161, 166
Euclid
171n63
Eurasia
176
Eve
47
evil
85, 99
exaltation
90
exegesis, exegeses
83, 100–101, 113, 120, 144, 157, 170, 202, 227
lettrist ~. See lettrist: exegesis
Qurʾānic ~
93, 138
exegete(s)
7, 23, 156
exigencies
11, 68, 81, 95, 103, 181, 187, 190
existence/being (wujūd)
29, 31, 35n27, 47, 51n51, 73, 94, 97–99, 103n69, 154, 23, 25, 36, 59, 62–63, 66, 67, 81, 86, 105, 182, 190, 212, 225n10
experience
direct ~
15
embodied ~
3, 15, 18, 66, 86, 89
spiritual ~. See spiritual: experience
subjective ~
11, 15, 113
visionary ~. See visionary: experience
visual ~. See visual: experience
expositions
16, 50, 60, 66, 76, 105–106, 109, 121, 130, 137, 156, 242
expression
22, 61, 136, 149, 156–157, 183, 189–191, 198–189, 207, 210, 212, 215, 223, 289–230
mode(s) of ~
19, 21, 24–27, 27, 59, 64, 75, 97, 105, 132, 187, 198, 213, 217, 219
faith
34, 82, 114, 198n24
falāsifa
35
familial
145, 160, 167, 171, 240
~ ties
144, 166
family
3, 6, 21, 114, 115, 144–145, 162, 163, 167, 173–174, 181–182, 184, 231, 233, 234n7, 235, 242, 243n1, 244–245
Prophet’s ~
177–180
fantasy
67
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr (d. 950)
28, 31
Fard, Mīr-Bāqirī
235n13, 236n15, 237n24, 246
fast(s)
79
fasting
31n20, 34, 82
fear
78, 91, 95, 130
fiqh
87
fire
33–34, 99, 122n39, 147
flood
195
folia
16, 25n7, 97, 107, 111, 119–120, 126, 135, 137, 141, 148, 224, 237n24
forgiveness
90, 115, 170
Foucault, Michel
10n21, 103n69
Frampton, Peter
76
freedom
33, 204
Friday mosque of Abarkuh
224
Furqān
190
Gabriel (angel)
53, 57
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
1
garden
33, 122n39
Gardiner, Noah
128–130
genealogical claims
3, 160, 160n32, 167, 176, 184
genealogy
19, 21, 143–144, 162, 167, 173–174, 177n81, 222n3, 223–224, 233n5, 235n14, 236n17, 242n43, 244–245
genitive case
43, 119, 208n46
al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid (d. 1111)
50, 68n85, 84n26, 87, 87n34, 91, 93, 116–117, 117n24, 140, 207, 214
al-Ghazālī, Aḥmad (d. 1123 or 1126)
162, 167
Ghāzān, Maḥmūd (d. 1304)
6, 177, 224
Gīlī, Jamāl al-Dīn (d. 1258)
236
glorification
113, 179
God (Allāh)
passim
~’s face
31n20, 97, 102, 183, 191
~’s light
46, 136
~’s names
81, 182, 202
~’s speech
180–181
word of ~
94, 121, 137, 142, 151, 216, 219n68
Golden Horde
16
golden kin
175, 180
grace (baraka)
47, 147–148, 158, 171, 223
grammar
119–120, 141–142, 150, 170, 206, 212–213
divine ~. See divine: grammar
generative ~
137
graphemes
62, 64
Gril, Denis
59, 61n69
Guattari, Félix
107, 132–133
guidance
99, 131, 145
hāʾ (letter)
37, 60–62, 64, 98–101, 102n67, 139, 231
ḥadīth
31n20, 49–50, 82n21, 83–84, 88, 127, 149, 160–162, 167–168, 205–207, 219, 222n3
hidden treasure ~
49
~ narrations
168n57
hagiographers
3, 5, 8, 24
hagiography
10, 68, 111n8, 172, 224, 232n4, 236n15, 245
hagiology
93, 97
hajj
34
al-Ḥamawī, Saʿd
25n7
Hamburger, Jeffrey
132, 132n57, 133
Hamilton, John T.
228
Ḥamūya
~ clan
162, 164, 167–169, 171n64, 173n69, 180, 233n4, 234, 245
~ patriarch
164, 173
Ḥamūya, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad (d. 1136). See Juwaynī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya
Ḥamūya, Fakhr al-Dīn Yūsuf (d. 1249)
163, 234n7
Ḥamūya, Ghiyāth al-Dīn (14th c.)
24, 69n86, 111n8, 163, 166n51, 224, 227, 232, 234, 235nn13–14, 236, 236n15, 237, 237n24, 238, 238n25, 238n27, 239n30, 240, 241nn40–41, 242n43, 245, 245n9, 246
Ḥamūya, ʿImād al-Dīn Abū Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī (d. 1181)
162, 234n7
Ḥamūya, ʿImād al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad (d. 1239)
163–166, 169, 173, 181, 234n7, 235, 240
Ḥamūya, Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad (d. 1242)
163, 234n7
Ḥamūya, Muḥammad (Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya). See Juwaynī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya (d. 1136)
Ḥamūya, Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan (d. 1246)
163, 234n7
Ḥamūya, Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾayyad (shaykh) (d. 1252)
passim
The Book of the Beloved (Kitāb al-Maḥbūb)
6–7, 15, 20, 22, 25, 51, 55, 69n86, 71, 74, 76, 78, 90, 93–97, 100n62, 101, 101n65, 103, 106, 109n4, 110, 112, 119–121, 126, 136, 138, 149, 161n33, 183, 187–188, 191, 197–198, 200, 204, 208–212, 214–215, 219, 226, 231, 241, 242, 242n43, 247
The Book of the Point (Kitāb al-Nuqṭa)
37, 40, 49n47, 51n51, 86
The Lamp of Sufism
21, 32n21, 37, 40, 42–43, 45, 50–51, 53, 57, 74, 86, 101, 102n68, 119, 136, 138, 143, 145, 149–150, 180n, 183, 187–188, 197, 245–246
The Levels of Joy in the Fountains of Power (Kitāb Marātib al-qurra fī ʿuyūn al-qudra)
20, 31–34, 51, 53–54, 56–57, 69, 76–78, 83, 88, 90, 105, 112, 126, 136, 143, 161, 173, 182, 214
Mirror of Spirits and Signs on Tablets (Sajanjal al- arwāḥ wa-nuqūsh al-alwāḥ)
6, 8, 20, 84n25, 107, 109–115, 118–122, 124–126, 128–129, 131–132, 135–138, 140–142, 247
The Realities of the Letters (Ḥaqāʾiq al-ḥurūf)
37–39, 51, 53, 116, 182, 188–189
Repose of the Righteous (Sakīnat al-ṣāliḥīn)
84nn25–26, 116, 246
The Sea of Gratitude in the River of Disavowal (Baḥr al-shukr fī nahr al-nukr)
22, 192–193, 193n15, 196–198, 250
Ḥamūya, Ṣadr al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad (d. 1220)
162–167, 170, 171n65, 234n7, 235, 235n14, 238n25
Ḥamūya, Ṣadr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm (d. 1322)
6, 223–224, 235n13, 241n40, 242n43
Ḥamūya, Sālik al-Dīn Muḥammad (16th c.)
245
Ḥamūya, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh (d. 1244)
163, 166n51, 172n66
Ḥamūyas
167–168, 173n69, 240n35
Harb, Lara
212, 213n55
harmony
2, 83, 119
Hashimite
220
hearing (samʿ)
37, 48, 70, 85, 121n35, 229
heart (qalb)
32n20, 37, 48–50, 53, 57, 70, 85, 94, 114, 117, 147, 153, 170, 193, 195, 198, 205, 209, 218, 228
heaven(s)
70, 82, 99, 149, 194
hell(s)
70, 149
heresy
34
hermeneutics
117, 228
Ḥijāz
160n32, 236–237
Hirawī, Najīb Māyil
181n89, 181–182nn91–92, 233n4, 245–247
Hirschler, Konrad
141, 150n10
historians
5–6, 14, 140, 173, 175, 177, 224n4, 233n4, 240
history
9, 10–11, 108–109, 111–112, 140, 175, 180, 184
ancestral ~
180
art ~
15–16
cultural ~
9, 11
family ~
162, 180–182
intellectual ~
8–10, 36n28, 244
~ of knowledge
16, 227
~ of philosophy
15
Hofer, Nathan
87n33, 162nn39–40, 171, 172n65
hopefulness
91, 95
hospitality
166
human
~ being(s) (al-insān)
22, 32, 47–48, 50, 61–62, 83, 86, 158, 189, 192n13, 194, 199, 206–207, 211, 216, 219
~ perfection
19, 21, 29–30, 48, 103, 186–188, 192, 217
humility
78, 91, 95, 102–103n68
hunger
81
Ḥurūfīs
227
hypocrites
147
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (d. 1270)
235n14
Ibn ʿArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn (al-Shaykh al-Akbar) (d. 1240)
passim
The Bezels of Wisdom (Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam)
25, 66
The Essence of What the Novice Needs (Kitāb Kunh mā lā budda li-l-murīd minhu)
80, 96
Meccan Revelations (al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya)
28, 29n12, 35n27, 58–59, 60–65, 68, 74, 82n21, 86n31, 96, 122, 124, 126, 141, 195n20, 217, 219
Ibn Ḥamūya. See Juwaynī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya (d. 1136)
Ibn Ḥawqal (10th c.)
150n10
Ibn Hubayra (vizier) (d. 1165)
168n54
Ibn al-Jawzī, Sibṭ (d. 1257)
165, 166–167n51, 173, 175, 232–233n4, 240, 242n43
Ibn Karbalāʾī, Ḥāfiẓ Ḥusayn (d. 1589)
181–182n91, 232–233n4
Ibn Nāʿima al-Ḥimsī (9th c.)
27n8
Ibn Sawdakīn, Shams al-Dīn Ismāʿīl (d. 1248)
239
Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037)
26, 27n10, 28n10, 140, 212
Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328)
171n66
Ibn Turka. See Turka Iṣfāhānī, Ṣāʾin al-Dīn (d. 1432)
ideals
12, 14, 17, 74n94, 154, 169, 183–184
ethical ~
18, 188
interpersonal ~
184
social ~
159
theoretical ~
174
identity
4, 13–14, 17, 108–109, 176, 182n92, 222n3, 227–228, 247
communal ~
176
historical ~
12
social ~
5n7, 13, 19, 183
idiosyncrasies
14, 111, 212, 214
ignorance
29, 31, 148–149, 179
iʿjāz. See inimitability
ijāza. See license
Īlkhān(s)
6, 16, 179, 223
~ elites
223
Ilkhanate
176
Īlkhānid(s)
6, 140, 176n76, 177
~ state
177, 247
illegibility
216
illumination
71, 81, 131, 200n32, 201, 203
illusions
57, 131
imagery
119, 213–214
imagination
4, 10, 18, 32, 79n9, 80, 146, 228n18
imaginative exercises
20, 79n9, 80, 89, 222
imāms
61, 168, 170, 182, 233n4
imitation
35, 213, 216–217, 219–220
imperative mood
119
implications
4n6, 40, 45, 59n63, 66, 82n21, 88, 97, 101, 117, 132n57, 162, 191, 201n35, 208, 213, 229
improvisation
6, 96, 104, 203, 229n23
impurity
151
incantations
130
inconsistencies
24, 50, 51n51
indefiniteness
31
indicative mood
119
I-ness (anāniyya)
194
infinity
107, 223
inheritance
160, 162, 174–176, 180
biological ~
177
saintly ~
192n13
spiritual ~. See spiritual: inheritance
inimitability
212–216
~ of the Qurʾān (iʿjāz) / Qurʾānic ~
15, 22, 118, 210–215, 219
inner
~ dimension
190, 199, 206–208, 214
~ meanings
189
~ reality
187, 190, 198–199, 210–212, 225
~ struggle (mujāhada)
35n26
insights
1, 10, 13, 18, 27, 74, 108–109, 118, 133, 177n83, 226n10, 241n41
theoretical ~
109, 133
inspiration
7, 40n32, 132, 228n18
Divine ~. See divine: inspiration
instability
26, 69, 97, 146
instruction
20, 77–81, 84n25, 89, 93, 106, 111, 113, 115, 129n49, 130, 135n63, 138, 150, 217
intellect(s) (ʿaql)
15, 24, 33–34, 37, 53–57, 62, 64, 70, 73, 92, 94, 104–105, 116, 146, 210
Particular ~
73
interaction
18, 60, 74n94, 79, 86, 122, 131, 136, 148, 168, 229n23, 239n30
interlocutors
1–2, 13, 16, 26, 75, 78, 92, 167, 183, 220
interpretation(s)
4, 12, 20, 24, 71, 73, 77, 79, 89, 96, 130, 135, 138, 153, 187, 196, 199n32, 203, 206–207, 216, 219n68, 222n3
interpreters
23
interrelation
26, 68, 97, 146
intertexts
97, 101–102, 116, 119–120, 137, 141
intertextuality
77
intonation
78
inversion
73, 106
invocation(s)
90–91, 93–94, 119, 139
iʿrāb
43
Iran
3, 16, 162, 164n45, 224, 232, 237
Iraq
166, 237
Isfahan
167
al-Iṣfahānī, Zayn al-Dīn (13th c.)
236n15
al-Isfarāyinī, Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 1317)
232n4, 246
Israfel (angel)
53, 55
Istanbul
25, 110, 122
jabarūt
46, 48, 50, 63n75, 170–171
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (d. 765)
182, 235n14
al-Jaghminī, Maḥmūd (late 12th/early 13th c.)
171n63
Jājarmī, Muʿīn al-Dīn (13th c.)
234
al-Jājarmī, Shams al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī al-Maqqarī (13th c.)
241
Jāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 1492)
6n11, 23–24, 74n94, 156, 162, 164n45, 233n4, 236, 239, 242n43, 245
Jandī, Bābā Kamāl (d. 1273)
173, 236
al-Jandī, Muʾayyad al-Dīn (d. ca. 1300)
63n75, 232n4, 233n4, 239
Jār Allāh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Walī al-Dīn (d. 1738)
111n8
al-Jawbarī, Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm (13th c.)
131
al-Jazarī (d. 1338/9)
224n4
jazz
1–3, 88n35, 203, 225n10, 229n23
Black ~
106
free ~
2, 14, 77, 88, 96, 105, 225
Sufi free ~
20, 76, 83, 96–97, 105, 121, 145, 203, 223, 227–230
Jesus
149–151, 159
Jews
176n76
jinn
61–62
Jonah, Jonas (prophet)
149
Junayd (d. 910)
160–161n33
jurisprudence
8, 222n3
Shāfiʿī ~
168
Jurists
16, 167, 170
al-Jurjānī, ʿAbd al-Qāhir (d. 1078 or 1081)
212–213, 214n59
Juwaynī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya (d. 1136)
21, 144–145, 161–162, 164, 166, 173–174, 177n83, 180, 233, 235n14
Juwaynī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAṭā-Malik (d. 1283)
6, 140, 143, 177, 178, 206n42, 224
Juwaynī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 1254)
177
al-Juwaynī, Saʿd al-Dīn ibn Ḥamūya (d. 1274)
233n4
Juwaynīs
180
juxtaposition(s)
72, 76, 88, 100, 104, 107, 187, 189, 207, 211, 217, 223
kāf (letter)
45, 47–50, 60–62, 136–137
Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. See Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad Ḥamūya (d. 1242)
Karbalāʾī, Ḥāfiẓ Ḥusayn (d. 1589). See Ibn Karbalāʾī, Ḥāfiẓ Ḥusayn
Karjoo-Ravary, Ali
122
Kashfī, Sārā
84nn25–26, 246
khalīfas
6, 236
khalwa. See spiritual: retreat
Khāma-Yār, Aḥmad
166n51, 169n59, 246
khānaqāh(s)
87, 163, 166, 171, 177, 235, 240, 242
al-Khatma al-maghribiyya al-sulṭāniyya
110
khayāl
4n6, 79n9
Khiḍr
235n14
khirqa
163, 164, 235n14, 238n25, 241
~ of initiation
163
al-Khīwaqī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Saʿd ibn ʿImrān (d. after 1218)
170–171, 171n63, 172, 234
al-Khūrandī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭabīb (13th c.)
241
Khurāsān
6, 145, 166, 170, 177, 180, 224, 232n4, 237, 240, 241nn40–41, 242n42
khuṭba
177
Khwāfī, Faṣīḥ (d. 1445)
163, 235n14, 238n25, 240n38, 242n43
Khwārazm
6, 16, 161, 170, 234, 236–237
Khwārazmī, Ḥusayn (d. 1551)
164n45
Khwārazmshāhs
173n69, 180, 235–236
al-Kindī (d. 870)
27n8
kinship
165, 188
al-Kirmānī, Awḥad al-Dīn (d. 1238)
238n25
knowing (ʿilm)
3, 17–19, 37, 65, 76, 89, 109, 115, 122n39, 155, 171, 189, 221–222, 227, 228n18
knowledge
abstract ~
16, 148
academic ~
18
acquisition of ~
143
advanced ~
93, 128, 216
authoritative ~
17, 21, 144, 160, 174n71, 227
divine ~. See divine: knowledge
elite ~
222n3, 174
esoteric ~
24, 171, 184
exoteric ~
168
experiential ~
4, 50, 77–78, 87, 95, 103–105, 116, 153, 155
God’s ~
219
Ḥamūya’s ~
5, 11, 21
hidden ~
238
lettrist ~. See lettrist: knowledge
linguistic ~
234
modes of ~
144, 149
perfect ~
4, 17, 75, 81, 150–152, 187, 190, 215, 221
~ production
11–13, 15–18, 66, 133, 144, 186, 222n3
prophetic ~
149
real ~
8, 17, 26, 34–36, 67, 74, 102, 117, 153, 228–229
~ of the Real
57, 154, 187, 190, 192n13, 197n23, 206
revealed ~
95, 219
scholarly ~
171
social ~
174
Sufi ~. See Sufi: knowledge
talismanic ~
130
true ~
34, 36, 69, 72, 94, 205
ultimate ~
35, 105, 145, 157, 159
unique ~
172
universal ~
7, 226
Körgüz (d. 1242)
178
Kramer, Lawrence
229
Kubrā, Najm al-Dīn (d. 1221)
6, 9, 16, 21, 76, 77–80, 83, 87, 89, 144, 151–156, 159–164, 167–168, 172–173, 184, 222, 231, 233n4, 236–237, 238n25, 243n1, 244–245, 247
Kubrawīs
243
al-Kuntī, Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826)
118
al-Kuntī, Sīdi al-Mukhtār (d. 1811)
118
kunya
182
lāhūt
63n75, 86
lām (letter)
37, 60–62, 114, 209
Landolt, Hermann
231n3, 246
language
Arabic ~. See Arabic: language
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: language
revealed ~
15, 22, 136, 188, 211, 214–215
visual ~. See visual: language
legacy
5, 21, 144–145, 154, 155, 159, 160n32, 164–166, 174n73, 177, 184, 223–224, 226–227
Ḥamūya’s ~
6, 8, 226–227
institutional ~
168
intellectual ~
8
legitimacy
153, 159, 167, 173–177, 224
spiritual ~. See spiritual: legitimacy
letter(s) (ḥurūf)
passim
Arabic ~
36, 62, 149
cold ~
61
cosmic ~
190
detached ~
137–139, 142
disconnected ~
138
genesis of ~
61
groups of ~
62
individual ~
138, 179, 202
initial ~
92
knowledge of ~
73
mirrored ~
200
Persian ~
15
repeated ~
73
science of ~. See science: of letters
single ~
73, 100n62, 138, 170
tablet’s ~
139
See also alif, ʿayn, hāʾ, kāf, lām, mīm, nūn, qāf
letterform
44, 62, 126, 129
lettrism
2, 58, 226, 244
lettrist
~ analysis
101, 121, 181, 202
~ approach
14n30, 59, 226
~ circles. See circle: letterist
~ claims
172
~ diagrams
128
~ discourse
202
~ exegesis
97, 100, 102
~ expositions
60, 66
~ imagery
119
~ investigations
90, 93
~ knowledge
241
~ manipulation
203
~ metaphor
37, 151
~ metaphysics
189
~ methods
7, 20, 151
~ operations
3, 20, 71, 84n25, 89, 225
~ squares
126, 128–129
~ strategies (techniques)
36, 50, 59, 66, 72, 74, 135, 150, 204
~ symbols
136
~ transformations
138
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
199
license(s) (ijāza)
161, 164n45, 231, 236–237, 240, 241n40, 242n43
teaching ~
236, 241
life and death (death and life)
195–197, 245
light (al-nūr)
24, 31n20, 42, 44, 46, 83, 94, 121, 136, 139, 148, 205, 209–210, 233n4, 235n13, 239
likeness (shakl)
51, 53, 57 146
Lindgren, Karl-Erik
23
lineage
145, 166, 173, 176–177, 180, 184, 224, 233, 235
familial ~
167
initiatic ~
144, 167, 173
Kubrawī ~
243, 247
Sufi ~. See Sufi: lineage
litany (awrād)
20, 78, 103, 113–115, 118–119
liturgy
76, 78, 84n25, 96, 106, 111, 138
logics
44, 59, 61, 66, 180
longing
78, 91, 95
lordship (al-rubūbiyya)
85, 92
Lory, Pierre
58
lote tree
149
macrocosm
17, 140
macrostructure
104
madrasa
177, 235
medieval ~
175n73
Shāfiʿī ~. See Shāfiʿī: madrasa
Sharābī ~
140
Sulṭāniyya ~
234
magic squares
126, 134, 139
Mahdī
181–182, 233n4, 246
Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī Library
110
al-Makkī, Abū Ṭālib (d. 996)
63, 87, 93, 116
malakūt
46, 48, 50, 63n75, 86, 170–171
Mamlūk
87
~ period
222n3
~ states
163n40
manifestation(s)
25, 30–32, 35, 42, 46, 49, 57, 62, 65, 71, 95, 103, 104, 136–137, 139, 141, 182, 188, 190, 197, 200n32, 202–203, 205, 211, 215, 217, 223, 227
dynamic ~
207
living ~
225
material ~
229n19
simultaneous ~
48, 136
temporal ~
217
terrestrial ~
191
textual ~
95
manipulation
57, 59n63, 66, 77, 89, 126, 130, 203–204, 213, 214, 226
imaginative ~
132
microcosmic ~
137
manuals
20, 77–78, 84nn25–26, 87n32, 89, 96, 106, 116
classic ~
77, 91, 105–106
conventional ~
20, 77
prayer ~
76, 96, 112–113
Sufi ~. See Sufi: manuals
training ~
3, 20, 82n21
manuscript(s)
1, 8, 25, 42n35, 73n91, 80n11, 110–112, 125n42, 129, 167n51, 209n47, 231, 237n24, 242n43, 247
Marāghaʾī, Awḥad al-Dīn ibn Awḥadī (d. 1338)
161n33, 253nn3–4
al-Marāghīnī, Kamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAzīz (13th c.)
240
Marchena
28
Marcus-Sells, Ariela
118
Marrinan, Michael
133
martyr (al-shahīd)
170
Mashhad
110–111, 113n10, 125n42
Massad, Joseph
108
Massignon, Louis
246
master(s)
6–8, 21, 29, 34, 67, 79–80, 89, 143–145, 147–148, 151, 153–155, 158–167, 170–171, 181, 224–226, 232n4, 236–237
~ and disciple(s)/ master-disciple
3, 21, 143, 147, 150, 155, 159–160, 184
spiritual ~. See spiritual: master
Sufi ~
6, 21, 80n15, 83, 146, 149, 154–155, 159n31, 161, 167–184
Masʿūd (Sultan) (d. 1152)
168n54
Maybudī, Mīr-Ḥusayn (Qāḍī) (d. 1504)
245
Mazāndarānī, Khalīfa (Shaykh) (d. 1335)
224
Mecca
236n15, 238n25
medieval Islamic world
3, 6, 110, 135n63, 140, 145, 165, 212n49
meditations
45, 88, 90
Medwin, Marc Howard
104
Meier, Fritz
9–10, 89, 154, 164n45, 181n89, 247
melody
2, 104
mercy
94, 99, 170
mesocosm
17
messenger(s)
63, 85, 92, 150, 165–166, 170, 183, 205, 207
Messiah, messiah
3, 220
messianic
~ claims
7
~ trends
121
~ visionaries
8
Messianism
121, 241n41, 247
metamorphoses
87
metaphor(s)
37, 40, 40n32, 43–45, 61, 151, 202
linguistic ~
119
metaphysical principles
20, 27n8, 45, 83, 137, 141, 188, 190, 192, 210, 222
metaphysics
1, 8–9, 12, 27, 28n11, 63n75, 106, 130, 226
abstract ~
97, 100
lettrist ~. See lettrist: metaphysics
Sufi ~. See Sufi: metaphysics
meter(s)
2, 72, 102
methodologies
5, 15, 26, 31, 150
rational ~
25, 35, 75
Michael (angel)
53, 57
microcosm
30, 92, 194
mīm (letter)
60–62, 114, 136–137, 139, 150, 201–202, 204
miracles
15, 131
saintly ~
162
mirror
44, 109–110, 117, 143, 200–201
Miskawayh, Abū ʿAlī (d. 1030)
140
al-Miṣrī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn (13th c.)
237
al-Miṣrī, Rūzbihān al-Wazzān (d. 1188)
153n17, 164n45
mission
189, 235
divine ~. See divine: mission
prophetic ~
189
model (mithāl)
10n21, 12, 51, 53–55, 57, 78, 93–95, 107, 145, 148, 179, 198, 205–206, 211
Mongol(s)
3, 16, 144, 175–176, 177n83, 180–181, 184, 237, 240, 243
~ dynast(s)
8
~ dynasty
21
~ elites
6, 177
~ period
243
~ rule
145, 176
~ territories
176
monotheists
34
Monson, Ingrid
88n35, 105–106
moral
10n21, 17, 19, 81, 84
~ conduct
10n21
~ refinement
140
Morris, James
59, 68n85
Moses (prophet)
191–192, 194–197, 199
Mosul
235, 237
MS Arabe (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
128
Muḥammad (Prophet) (d. 632)
7n13, 34–35, 47, 67, 83, 99, 103n69, 114–115, 119, 125, 149, 176–178, 183, 190–193, 198–199, 205, 207–211, 224–226, 232n4, 234, 235n14, 236n17, 239, 246
Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya. See Juwaynī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūya (d. 1336)
mulk
63n75, 86, 170–171
multiplicity
1, 26, 29, 31, 37, 44, 50, 102
~ of meaning
17
munājāt. See conversation: intimate
al-Muqtafī (caliph) (d. 1160)
167
music
104n70, 105, 225n10, 229
American and European ~
106
live ~
225n10
Western classical ~
106
musical instruments
239n33
musician(s)
88, 104, 106, 203, 225n10, 229
Mustawfī al-Qazwīnī, Ḥamd Allāh (d. 1349)
242n43, 245
mystic(s)
3, 16, 169, 221
mysticism
167
mythologies
11
Nafīsī, Saʿīd
181n89, 182n92, 231, 233n5, 238, 242n43, 244–247
Najafī, Z.
235n13, 236n15, 237n24, 246
narrative(s)
5, 12, 18, 71, 77n4, 86, 129, 144, 152–155, 159, 164n45, 173–175, 189, 193–194, 200, 204, 210, 233n4, 236n15, 236n19
~ climax
157
coherent ~
48, 112
contemporary ~
16
dream ~
173, 224
epistle’s ~
81
master-disciple ~
161, 184
personal ~
184
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: narrative
~ strategies
143–144, 155
stylized ~
154
Nasafī, ʿAzīz (d. before 1300)
6–7, 181–182, 224–226, 232n4, 233n4, 242, 242n42, 243–247
al-Naṣīr li-Dīn Allāh (caliph) (d. 1225)
168
nature of being
23–25, 36, 50, 62, 105
naẓm. See structure: sentence
neologisms
24
Neoplatonic
27n8, 63, 201
Neopythagorean
226
~ theories
42, 61
Nīshāpūr
6, 234–235
Niẓāmiyya
167
Noah (prophet)
66, 194–195
nominative case
119
novice(s)
79–80, 92, 151, 154
nūn(s) (letter)
46, 60–62, 71, 136, 194n16, 200, 204, 209–210
Nūr al-Dīn (Zangid ruler) (d. 1174)
162
Nūrbakhsh, Muḥammad (d. 1464)
7, 8n15
oath (ʿahd)
99, 102, 209
obedience
152
occult
3, 7–8, 16, 110, 112, 126, 128–129, 130n52, 131, 226
~ operations
20, 107
~ practice
107
~ properties
129
~ resonances
131, 228n18
~ sciences
110, 130, 226, 244
occultists
3, 8, 110, 131, 226
faux ~
131
offspring
143, 179, 181, 195
Ohlander, Erik
167n54
Okiji, Fumi
225n10
Öljeytü (d. 1316)
177
ontogenesis
93
ontological claims
29, 36, 74n94, 156
ontology
9, 19, 57
openness
4–5, 14n30, 20, 26, 96, 112, 133, 137, 141, 184, 220, 224–227
Orientalism
108
Orsi, Robert
229n22
pain
81
paradise
174n71
particularity
24, 59n63, 74, 84, 141, 195, 197, 201, 211, 215, 230
passion(s)
34, 117, 133, 146
Peirce, C.S.
132, 133
pen
22, 42, 71, 73, 170, 196, 198–199, 239n30
Pentcheva, Bissera
5n7
perception
4n6, 18, 79, 140, 146
Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)
29–31, 35, 195n20
perfection
19, 21–22, 29–30, 47, 48, 50, 70, 103, 156, 179, 186–189, 192, 195, 198–200, 217, 223
Peripatetics
27, 31
perplexity
140
Persian
3, 7, 15, 24n3, 27n8, 42, 82n21, 90, 94, 98, 100, 113, 116n17, 136, 149, 156n25, 175, 180n89, 225–227, 231, 235n13, 239n34, 244–246, 247n15
petitions
91–93, 94, 105, 112
Pfeiffer, Judith
176, 176n77, 181
Pharaoh
196–197
pharyngeals (ḥurūf al-ḥalq)
61
philology
228, 228nn18–19
philosophers
26–27, 31–35, 63n75, 68, 72–75, 92, 126, 212
rationalist ~
105
philosophical
27, 31, 35, 49, 61, 68, 87, 122, 131, 140, 229
~ argument. See argument: philosophical
philosophy
15, 28n11, 68, 212, 226
Aristotelian ~
28n10, 156
natural ~
60, 140
political ~
145, 183
phonemes
48, 64, 72
phonetics
61, 141
phonology
61
piety
8, 227
pilgrimage
82, 175, 227
pillars (sing. rukn, pl. arkān)
51, 82n21, 221
Platonic
~ ideals
12
~ mimêsis
57
~ principles
27n8
play
14, 23, 48–49, 71, 105, 121, 137, 139, 174, 188, 198–200, 204, 217, 223–224
boundless ~
4, 20, 22, 77–78, 214, 223–226, 229
dynamic ~
17, 37, 199
sonic ~
49
visual ~
48
pleasure
81, 115
Plotinus (d. 270)
27n8, 201n35
plurality
5, 13, 17, 26, 30, 78, 83, 105, 131, 183–184, 221–222, 227
~ of contexts
4
poem
61, 61n69, 98–102, 209
poetics
90, 95, 97, 100, 102, 187–188, 200, 210, 212
poetry
7, 45, 97, 100, 138, 182n91, 209n47, 212, 233n4, 239n33, 245–246
ecstatic ~
20, 93, 121
Point (nuqṭa)
37, 42, 47–48, 51, 99, 137
Primordial ~
189, 223
politics
21, 145, 162, 167–168, 221n3
Porter, Lewis R.
104n71
post-Enlightenment
5, 11
~ mystic
221
post-structuralists
14, 199
posture(s)
18, 78–79, 82, 86
potency (qudra)
46–47, 49, 85, 129, 138
saintly ~
220
power (quwwa)
3, 12–14, 19, 21, 46–47, 49, 62n71, 85, 94, 118, 128, 130, 138, 143–144, 149, 155, 165–166, 167n54, 174, 179, 222n3, 227–228
practices
devotional ~
116–119, 131, 137
embodied ~
11–13, 19, 77–80, 82n21, 87–88, 90–91, 103, 105–106, 140, 143, 147, 155
occult ~. See occult: practices
prayer ~. See prayer: practices
ritual ~. See ritual: practices
Sufi ~. See Sufi: practices
praise
73, 90, 234
prayer(s)
Adam’s ~
114, 116
~ books
20, 90, 112
contemporary ~
118
~ cycles (rakaʿāt)
113, 115
Ḥamūya’s ~
96, 103–104, 119, 125
~ manuals
76, 96, 112–113
morning ~
113
obligatory ~
113, 117
~ practices
78, 129n49, 135, 137
ritual ~
82, 87, 115
role of ~
96, 104
sequence of ~
113
Sufi ~. See Sufi: prayers
supererogatory ~
91, 113
supplicatory ~
118
utterances of ~
86
written ~
118
pre- and post-positioning (taqdīm wa-taʾkhīr)
213–214
Princeton’s Garrett
110
progeny
100, 102, 180
proof(s) (al-dalīl)
32, 34, 64
prophecy (nubuwwa)
37, 47, 190–193, 217, 233n4, 246
~ and sainthood
7, 21, 31n20, 46, 48, 145n3, 187–191, 192n13, 197–198, 217, 243, 246
Prophet. See Muḥammad (Prophet)
~’s bloodline
177n81
~’s descendants
177
prophet(s)
21–22, 33–35, 47, 101, 174, 187, 189–192, 193–199, 217, 226
false ~
131
~-saint pair
191–192
Seal of the ~. See seal: of the Prophet
See also Abraham, Adam, Jonah, Jonas, Moses, Muḥammad, Noah, Yasʿā
prophethood
149
prophetology
138
propositional statements
13, 15
prose
45, 91, 100n62, 225
Persian ~
7, 225
prostrating (prostration)
82n21, 85–87, 115
protection
90, 99, 129n48
psychology
9
punishments
34, 70
purification
113
qāf(s) (letter)
47–49, 60–62, 99n60, 138
al-qaṣīda al-mulammaʿa
98
Qāsiyūn
166n51, 194n15, 238–239, 240n37
al-Qaṣrī, Ismāʿīl (d. 1193)
153n17, 164, 164n45, 236n17
al-Qazwīnī, al-Khaṭīb (d. 1338)
212–213
al-Qazwīnī, Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd (d. 1283)
140, 228n18
qibla
91
quatrains
100n62
al-Qūnawī, Ṣadr al-Dīn (d. 1274)
6, 21, 24, 63n75, 74n94, 91–96, 104–105, 144, 155–157, 159–160, 169, 171, 173, 175, 184, 232n4, 233n4, 239, 244–245
Qurʾān
passim
Qurʾānic
~ allusion. See allusion: Qurʾānic
~ analogy
208
~ citation
202
~ exegesis. See exegesis: Qurʾānic
~ hermeneutics
117
~ imitation
218
~ inimitability (iʿjāz). See inimitability: of the Qurʾān (iʿjāz)
~ language
113, 117, 126, 135, 141, 213
~ meaning
187
~ narrative
193
~ quotation
121, 137
~ recitation
80, 99n60, 113, 125n42, 139
~ revelation
74
~ statements
213
~ syntax
214
~ tafsīr
130
~ theurgy
20, 112, 126, 129
~ utterances
213
~ verses
46n41, 49, 69n86, 103, 113, 120, 129, 138, 179n86, 201
rationalism
30n18
al-Rāzī, Abū Ḥātim (d. 890)
127
al-Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn (d. 1210)
27, 28n10, 35n26, 68n85, 130–131
al-Rāzī, Muḥammad Zakriyyā (13th c.)
241
(the) Real
4, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29–31, 34–35, 37, 44–45, 47–50, 57, 59n63, 62, 65–67, 68, 73–74, 81, 83, 86, 92, 94, 98, 100, 106, 115–116, 118, 121–122, 131, 136–137, 141, 143–144, 149–150, 153, 154, 156, 187–188, 190, 192n13, 194, 196, 197n23, 198–199, 202, 206–208, 210–211, 214–215, 217–218, 220
~ Point
42, 137
Reality
4, 6, 21, 32, 35, 37, 59, 66, 67, 74, 86, 104, 108–109, 116, 121, 137, 140–143, 154, 183–184, 187, 191, 197, 209, 221
approach to ~
138, 143, 145
dimensions of ~
93, 103, 192, 204
Divine ~
122
expressions of ~
223
levels of ~
20, 141, 149, 192
potential of ~
11, 19, 26
register of ~
97, 121
representations of ~
21, 109
unified ~
86
wonders of ~
79
reality, realities
8–11, 13, 25, 27, 31–32n20, 32n20, 33–34, 58, 62, 68–70, 83, 88, 91–92, 95, 105, 107, 122, 133, 183, 193, 210–212, 217, 221 222
existential ~
89
hidden ~
25, 36, 70, 133, 187, 207
inner ~
187, 190, 198–199, 210–212, 225
material ~
11
messy ~
13, 145
outer ~
190, 206–208
prophetic ~
188
spiritual ~. See spiritual: realities
universal ~
222
realm(s)
4n6, 5, 12, 15, 17, 30, 68, 81–82, 86, 89, 99, 153, 156, 160, 189, 194, 215, 222n3
angelic ~
86
divine ~. See divine: realms
experiential ~
20
heavenly and earthly ~
194
human ~
86, 136
interrelated ~
79
metaphysical ~
198
ontological ~
48, 63, 66, 81
social ~
160
temporal ~
198
terrestrial ~
122
recitation(s)
113, 115, 117, 135–136, 141–142, 153, 207
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: recitation
repetitive ~
138
recognition
94, 120, 129, 159, 175
reflection(s)
29, 30, 73, 78, 104, 112, 115, 122, 215, 246
self-~
10n21
refuge
70, 99, 102
register(s)
31n20, 37, 40, 42–44, 82n21, 100–101, 222
discursive ~
19, 26, 61
multiple ~
121
of Reality ~. See Reality: register of
relationality
30, 53, 66
~ (tanāsub)
53
relationship(s)
dynamic ~
138
familial ~
160
grammatical ~
72
interpersonal ~
143, 169, 173
intimate ~
94, 103, 116, 184
master-disciple ~
21
personal ~
239
social ~. See social: relationship
spatial ~
44, 124
spiritual ~. See spiritual: relationships
visual ~. See visual: relationship
reliance (iʿtimād)
100–101
religion (dīn)
34, 82n21, 177, 179
religious
13
~ duties
34, 81
~ practices
82
~ rites
83
~ sciences
234
~ studies
15
repentance
91, 198
resurrection
31n20, 32–33, 69
retreat
152
ritual ~
153
spiritual ~. See spiritual: retreat
revelation(s)
2, 63, 66, 83, 94–95, 118, 120, 136, 186, 206, 211, 213–215, 217–219
divine ~ (nafaḥāt ilāhiyya). See divine: revelations
oral ~
225
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: revelation
reverence
177n81, 178–181, 239
reviling (al-sabb)
179n86, 179–180
rhetoric
155, 172, 215
rhetorical
13, 40n32, 154–155, 159, 171, 174, 177, 183
~ devices
214
~ strategies
144, 167, 181
rhymes
72, 102, 229
rhythm(s)
72, 104, 149, 203
ribāṭs
168, 170
(the) righteous
46, 48, 165
ritual(s)
3, 16, 37, 75, 79, 95, 104, 112–113, 117–118, 125, 138, 141, 153
~ practice
3, 20, 34, 68, 82n21, 93, 125–126, 130, 135, 168, 171, 229
~ prayer
82, 87, 115
rivals
4, 14, 27n8, 130, 223
robe
6, 235
Saʿādat al-Khādim
168
ṣāḥib-dīwāns
3, 178
Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ khānaqāh
87, 163, 166, 171, 172n66, 173, 181, 240, 241n41
saint(s) (al-walī)
3, 21–22, 47, 81, 97, 102, 154–155, 172–173, 174n71, 181–183, 187, 189–193, 196–202, 212, 216–217, 219, 223, 233n4, 246
beloved ~
100–101, 182, 199–202, 206, 219
~ for God
191–192
God’s ~
191–192
~ of God’s right
191–192
~ of God’s spirit, word, and hand
191
~-maker
161, 172
prophet-~
191–192
Seal of ~. See seal: of Saints
sainthood (wilāya)
21, 37, 46–48, 81, 100–101, 121, 147, 149, 151, 154, 187–193, 197, 199–200, 211, 216–217, 219-220, 226, 233n4, 245–247
prophecy and ~. See prophecy: and sainthood
Seal of ~. See seal: of Sainthood
al-Sakkākī (d. 1229)
212–213
Saladin (d. 1193). (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb)
162, 171
salafs
165
Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb. See Saladin (d. 1193)
Saljūq(s)
16, 180
~ sultan(s)
167n54
~ sultanate
167
salvation
48, 146
samāʿ
159–160nn31–32
~ session
239
Sasanian Period
231
sayyids
180
scholar(s)
8–10, 14–15, 19, 127, 130, 150n10, 164n45, 168, 171, 174, 213–215, 231, 249
iʿjāz ~
188, 213–215
medieval ~
213, 215
Shāfiʿī ~
166, 171, 234
Sufi ~. See Sufi: scholars
scholarship
15, 69, 181n89, 214, 229, 243–244
contemporary ~
8, 11, 16, 18n36, 112, 180
legal ~
170
medieval ~
222n3
modern ~
17
recent ~
11, 14
Sunnī ~
222n3
schools
141, 150, 170, 212, 244
Sunnī law ~
182
science
11, 31n20, 170, 226
~ of eloquence (ʿilm al-balāgha)
212
esoteric ~
162, 182n95
exoteric ~
167, 170–171, 234
~ of letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf)
8, 19, 26, 36, 57–60, 75, 130, 178, 180, 222, 244, 246
occult ~
110, 130, 226, 244
religious ~
234
scribe
111–112, 115, 237n24, 250
seal(s)
126, 129, 187, 190–193, 196
~ of Prophecy
193–194
~ of the Prophets
187, 190–92, 192n13, 198
~ of Sainthood
193, 220
~ of Saints
22, 121, 181, 187, 190–191, 192n13, 194–198, 217, 219, 241n41, 246–247
Secord, James
12, 77n4
secrets
7, 24, 34, 36, 44, 57, 62, 73, 81, 85, 87, 100–101, 114, 117, 119, 141, 147, 198–199, 216, 219, 227, 241n41
divine ~. See divine: secrets
~ of the letters
24
seeing (baṣr)
37, 47, 70, 76
Şehit Ali Paşa (Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi)
25
self
5n7, 10n21, 12, 21n37, 25, 65, 81, 95, 103, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 131, 202
self-disclosure
25, 57–58, 66, 103, 121, 137, 144, 156, 158, 188, 194, 198, 200
Divine ~
22, 25, 29–31, 35–36, 44–45, 48–50, 58, 64, 66, 78, 92, 113, 126, 146, 156, 189, 195, 223
dynamic ~
214
Sells, Michael
30n18, 59, 59n63
semantic(s)
26, 59n63, 62, 72n90
~ analysis
66
~ coherence
71
~ implications
117
~ possibilities
188, 199
~ potential
19, 24, 26, 36, 62, 69, 97, 215
~ properties
62
~ structure. See structure: semantic
~ units
64
sensation(s)
79, 81, 87, 135–136
bodily ~
80–81
embodied ~
20, 77, 81, 138
sensibility, sensibilities
4, 9, 14, 17–18, 74n94, 141, 198, 203, 215, 221, 227–229, 229n23
embodied ~
3–5, 83, 215, 221, 223–227
epistemological ~
21, 26, 57, 65–66, 68, 72, 187, 198, 200
hermeneutical ~
59
musical ~
106, 228
saintly ~
207, 211
Sufi ~
104
Serez MS (Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi)
160n33
sermon
167
servanthood
92, 102
sexuality
108, 222n3
Shāfiʿī(s)
167, 171, 171–172nn64–65, 234
~ affiliation
181n89, 182–183, 245
~ madrasa
235
~ scholars. See scholars: Shāfiʿī
~ ʿulamā. See ʿulamā: Shāfiʿī
shahāda
177
shape (hayʾat)
51
sharīʿa
34
al-Shaybī, Kāmil Muṣṭafā
171n66, 241n41
shaykh. See Ḥamūya (d. 1252)
~ al-Akbar. See Ibn ʿArabī
~ al-dhikr
167
ideal ~
143, 160
~ al-shuyūkh
163, 165–166, 234n7, 235
Shaykhiyya Sufi order
224
shaykhliness (shaykhūkhiyyat)
47, 149, 154, 169
shaykhs
21, 74n94, 112, 143–144, 147, 149, 154–155, 158, 160n33, 162, 164n45, 167–169, 174, 234n7, 238n25, 242n43, 244–245, 250
fake ~
131
Sufi ~. See Sufi: shaykhs
Shīʿa
138, 177
~-maker
245
shift(s)
16, 47, 81, 135, 141, 202, 211, 214, 218, 231, 247
conceptual ~
211
disorienting ~
211
foundational ~
12
Shīʿīs
176, 181–183, 233n4, 247
Twelver ~. See Twelver: Shīʿīs
Shīʿism
177, 243
Twelver ~. See Twelver: Shīʿism
shrine
175
Shūshtarī, Nūr Allāh (Qāḍī) (d. 1610)
181, 233n4, 245
ṣiddīqs
198
sign(s)
99–100, 170, 205–206, 223
al-Simnānī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla (d. 1336)
7, 63n75, 164n45, 224, 233n4, 243, 246
al-Simnānī, Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Māhān (d. ?)
236n15
al-Simnānī, Shihāb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Māhān (13th c.)
241
sin(s)
114, 204
sincerity
78
sinners
34, 198
Sīstānī, Iqbāl-i (14th c.)
164n45
Smith, James
117
social
~ bonds. See bond: social
~ context
75, 87, 184, 187
~ Darwinism
109
~ dimension
21, 223
~ interactions
148
~ mechanisms
169
~ networks
155, 172
~ relationships
14, 147, 155, 160n32, 160, 171, 184, 221
~ strategies
167
~ ties
169, 181
~ values
13, 169
~ world
10, 13, 17, 81, 118, 144, 154, 161, 184
Solomon
165
sonic
6, 26, 36, 48–49, 135
~ unity
50
sophistication
24, 132
soul(s) (nafs)
17, 37, 46–48, 53, 57, 78, 80, 82, 85, 90n38, 101n65, 114, 133, 139, 146–147, 153, 212, 229n19
carnal ~
32
existing ~
37
human ~
85–86, 188, 206, 212
seizing ~
37
single ~
37
weaker ~
130
sound(s)
2–3, 24, 26, 36, 48, 50, 66, 71, 72, 80, 99n60, 135–136, 142, 190, 200, 203, 215, 227
articulated ~
62, 64
speaking
47, 115, 121n35, 147, 227
speculation(s)
35, 57, 58, 72, 96, 221
abstract ~
3, 78, 80, 155
creative ~
141
metaphysical ~
106, 151n14, 155, 172n65, 244
speech
47, 49, 71, 85, 147, 170, 179, 187–188, 190, 198, 205, 211, 214–216, 217–219
divine ~. See Divine: speech
God’s ~. See God’s: speech
poetic ~
188
revealed ~
188, 217–218
saintly ~
199
spheres
11, 60–62, 149
celestial ~
60–61, 62n71
elementary ~
62
spirit (rūḥ)
73, 82, 100, 109, 129, 191, 193, 230
Spirit(s)
Faithful ~ (rūh al-amīn)
37, 47, 53, 57
~ of God (rūḥ Allāh)
37, 47, 53, 57, 191
Holy ~ (rūḥ al-quddūs)
37, 47, 53, 56, 57
spiritual
~ ascent
81, 245
~ authority
6, 74, 120, 223
~ bond
145, 151, 155
~ capacity
95, 117–118
~ discipline
117
~ energy (himma)
152
~ experience
64, 79, 81, 96, 157
~ gifts
159
~ inheritance
21, 143, 160, 192n13
~ legacy
8
~ legitimacy
156, 159, 224
~ master
144, 173, 235n12
~ presence
152n15
~ realities
79
~ relationship
144–145
~ retreat (khalwa)
35n26, 80–83, 92, 144, 152, 163, 238n25
~ significance
58
~ stages
79, 95
~ states
20, 31, 78, 89, 95, 102–103, 152, 157
~ technologies
21, 90–91, 103n69, 108, 115–116
~ training
79, 237
~ transformation
58
~ vision
93
structure(s)
4, 20, 26–27, 59, 62, 72, 84, 87, 96–98, 106, 111, 118, 121, 131, 133, 141, 187, 202, 211, 212–214, 217–219
metaphysical ~
21, 35, 45, 64, 97, 105
narrative ~
87, 200
organizational ~
214
Qurʾān’s ~
211
revealed ~
219
semantic ~
212
sentence ~ (naẓm)
98, 213–214
stable ~
11, 141
style
14, 86, 96, 114, 126, 136, 156, 168, 194n15, 212, 219
subjectivity
10, 17–18, 20–21, 58, 65, 77, 87, 91, 105–106, 140
subjunctive mood
119
submission
91, 102, 144, 151, 153, 155, 198, 211
submissiveness
73, 91, 95
succession
174
Sufi(s)
~ actors
11
Chief ~
87n33, 145, 162–166, 166n51, 170–171, 171–172nn65–66, 234n7, 235, 239–240
~ classics
90
~ colleagues. See colleagues: Sufi
~ communities
130
~ competition
26, 77, 90, 126
~ conventions
14, 105, 215
~ devotion
36, 107
~ genealogy
163
~ hagiography
68
~ handbooks
15, 84, 96
~ knowledge
3–5, 17, 91, 95, 145, 155, 167, 174, 223
~ lineage
163, 166
~ literature
77, 106
~ liturgy
84n25, 106
~ manuals
78, 82n21, 87, 102n68, 116, 214
~ manuscripts
25
~ master(s). See master: Sufi
medieval ~
3n3, 4–5, 10–11, 14–20, 26, 49, 63n75, 74n94, 76, 78, 102n68, 103n69, 105, 107, 112, 117–118, 135, 167, 202, 216–217, 221
~ metaphysics
130
~ path
17, 77–78, 80, 83–84, 88, 90, 91, 143, 145, 154, 156
~ practice
11, 76, 89–91, 93–94, 105, 107, 137, 155, 223, 234, 246
~ prayers
20, 96, 103, 104, 112–113, 115, 117, 126, 131, 135, 137, 140–141
~ readers
103, 108, 109, 112, 126, 133, 144, 216–217, 223
~ scholars
118
~ shaykhs
3, 92, 106, 145, 148, 151, 155, 160–162, 167–169, 224, 233, 238n25
~ subjectivities
10
~ supplication
76, 93, 96, 103, 106, 112, 121
~ texts
4, 14, 86, 94–95, 118, 125, 229
~ theorists
10
~ theory
9, 78, 96, 121
~ thought
3, 11, 216
~ training
3, 18, 20–21, 82n21, 88, 95, 216, 236
~ treatises
78
~ vision
122
~ wisdom
6
would-be ~
80, 143
~ writers
3
Sufism
2, 9, 24, 76, 82–83, 105, 112, 121, 163, 167–168, 171, 222, 226–227, 243, 246
medieval ~
8–9, 20, 143, 222
modern ~
5
Mongol-era ~
243
ṣuḥba. See companionship
al-Suhrawardī, Abū al-Najīb (d. 1168)
167
al-Suhrawardī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar (d. 1234)
6, 16, 77–78, 82–83, 84n26, 86–87, 90, 93, 102n68, 160n33, 163, 167–168, 175, 222, 238
al-Suhrawardī, Wajīh al-Dīn (d. 1137)
167
Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi (Süleymaniye Library)
25, 110
summaries
16
sunna
113, 165, 176n77, 183
Sunnī(s)
138, 176n77, 182–183, 222n3, 247
~ Islam
171
~-Shīʿī pair
183
supplicants
20, 91, 102
supplication(s) (duʿa)
20, 78, 90–96, 102–103, 105–106, 109, 113, 119, 125
Sufi ~. See Sufi: supplication
sūra(s) (Sūrat)
135, 205, 207
~ al-Anʿām
129n49
~ al-Fātiḥa
113, 117n24
~ al-Naḥl
203
~ al-Nās
113
~ Qāf
138
syllables
72, 200, 203
symbol(s)
20, 42n35, 50, 120, 135, 136, 139, 142
lettrist ~. See lettrist: symbol
syntax
188, 212
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: syntax
Syria
145, 162, 164–166, 176, 222n3
Greater ~
6, 162, 165, 234, 237, 240n35
al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Karīm (Karīm al-Dīn) ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Āmulī (d. 1311)
172n66
Ṭabaristān
237, 241n41
tablet
134–139, 141–142
~ diagram. See diagram: tablet
tafsīr
69n86, 87, 222n3
Qurʾānic ~. See Qurʾānic: tafsīr
takbīr
82
tales of the prophets (qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) literature
101
talisman(s)
6, 112, 120, 126–131
quadrilateral ~
127
ṭarīqa
172n66, 209
al-Ṭāʾūsī al-Qazwīnī, ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Mukārim (fl. 1260)
241
tawḥīd
85
al-Tawḥīdī, Abū Ḥayyān (d. 1023)
140
teachers
8, 86, 151, 155, 170–174, 183, 222, 234
non-Sufi ~
161
school- ~
149–150
technology
14, 21n37, 103, 106, 108–109, 130–131, 135–136, 226
devotional ~
21n37, 103n69, 115–116, 118, 140
embodied ~
117, 135
~ of prayer
136
spiritual ~. See spiritual: technologies
Sufi ~
93, 118
Tehran
110
terminology
27n8, 86, 97
philosophical ~
35, 49
technical ~
29, 34, 48, 57, 62, 68, 78, 82, 87, 104–105, 119, 211
ternary
191, 194–196
prophetic ~
194
testament (waṣīya)
148n6, 152, 154, 161, 233n4
tetrads
37, 86
textual performances
21, 48, 50, 59n63, 137, 154
theologians
16, 27n8, 63n75, 72, 130
Shīʿī ~
177
theology
68
theorist(s)
3, 5, 7–8, 10, 212–213, 228
Throne Verse
69n86
Tilfīsī, Kamāl al-Dīn (13th c.)
159n31
Tīmūrid
226
~ era
177
~ period
7
al-Tirmidhī, al-Ḥakīm (d. 905 or 910)
145n3, 161n33, 191n9, 231n3, 247
Todd, Richard
156
tones
2, 104, 166n51, 225, 229
totality
22, 30, 44–45, 47, 64–65, 67, 71, 188–190, 192, 194, 197, 200, 223
training
2–3, 6, 14, 18–21, 79, 87, 106, 144, 155, 158n28, 161, 164n45, 168, 174, 184, 221, 229, 236n16, 238n25
~ masters
80
physical ~
79
~ programs
87, 158n28, 221
spiritual ~. See spiritual: training
Sufi ~. See Sufi: training
transformation
10n21, 44, 50–51, 57, 78n5, 79, 81, 88n35, 90, 122, 141, 200
lettrist ~
138
spiritual ~. See spiritual: transformation
visual ~
50
transmission
12, 111, 159, 173
treatise(s)
3–4, 7, 11, 21, 25n7, 51, 58–60, 69, 73, 78–79, 83, 91, 94, 96, 149–151, 153, 172, 180, 194n15, 222, 238n27, 241
Sufi ~. See Sufi: treatises
theoretical ~
3, 9, 15, 172
Tree of Eternal Life
194
triads
37, 86, 188
Trimingham, J. Spencer
164n45, 181n89, 231n3, 247
truths
4n4, 13, 31n20, 32, 34, 47, 68, 95, 114, 128, 133, 137, 156, 238
Turka Iṣfahānī, Ṣāʾin al-Dīn (Ibn Turka) (d. 1432)
7, 226
al-Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn (d. 1274)
27, 92, 104–105
Twelver(s)
176, 182
~ Imāms
233n4
~ Shīʿa
177n81
~ Shīʿī(s)
176, 181–182
~ Shīʿism
177, 181
ʿulamāʾ
83, 171
Shāfiʿī ~
169
ʿUmar (caliph) (d. 644)
207n43
unbelief
29, 47
unbelievers
28, 193, 199n28
union
116, 202
mystical ~
59
unity
29, 35n27, 44, 50, 121, 140, 146, 187, 190
~ (aḥadiyyat)
47
divine ~. See divine: unity
thematic ~
37
visual ~. See visual: unity
universals (kulliyāt)
47, 49
universe. See cosmos
unseen
1, 82, 87, 121
~ realm
82, 153
~ world
144, 152, 155–157, 159, 164, 174, 236n15
veil
31n20, 32n20, 34, 83, 146, 156, 158
verse(s)
32n21, 100, 117, 135, 139, 142, 216
farewell ~
237
Qurʾānic ~
46n41, 49, 69n86, 103, 113, 120, 125, 129, 138, 179n86, 202, 206, 219
vices
84
vigil (tahajjud)
113–115
virtues
94, 158, 179
visibility
121
vision(s)
11, 15, 19, 21, 24, 27n8, 34, 79, 93, 103, 126, 142, 154–160, 187, 192, 215, 217, 220, 222, 233n4, 239
cosmic ~
108, 121, 149
deconstructive ~
106
ecstatic ~
97, 100–101
epistemological ~
35, 44
exegetical ~
83
hermeneutical ~
223
imaginative ~
113
ontological ~
11, 57
spiritual ~. See spiritual: vision
Sufi ~. See Sufi: vision
theoretical ~
118
waking ~
173
visionary
8
~ experience
8, 79n9, 84n25, 129n48, 144, 152, 237, 239n33
visual
~ conventions. See conventions: visual
~ correlation
133
~ cues
126
~ dimensions
139
~ experiences
164
~ forms
20, 131–132, 141
~ language(s)
19, 107, 109, 112, 120, 122, 125–126, 128, 130, 133, 135, 139, 141
~ literacy
130
~ program
122, 137
~ properties
62
~ relationships
139
~ strategies
122
~ style
126
~ unity
50
visualization
125
~ (al-ʿiyān)
192
vocabulary
26, 88, 222, 225
vocalizations
142
volition (irāda)
46, 48
volitional death. See death: volitional
vowel
60, 119, 218
whiteness
1, 53, 57
(the) wicked
46–48
wisdom
67, 70, 147, 192n13, 197
divine ~. See divine: wisdom
prophetic ~
149
Sufi ~. See Sufi: wisdom
wonder(s)
140, 212–217, 219
~ (ʿajab)
140
aesthetic ~
212–213
poetic ~
212
~ of Reality. See Reality: wonders of
word(s)
passim
~ game
72
God’s ~
121, 137
Qurʾān’s ~
117
wordplay
24
worship
84–85
worshipers
103
wrongdoing
32, 91
al-Yāfiʿī, ʿAfīf al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Asʿad (d. 1367)
110n5, 126–127, 129, 162n37, 232n4, 237, 245
Yasʿā (prophet)
196–197
~al-ʿAjam
241n41
Zāde, Fuʾād Köprülü
245–246
Zadeh, Travis E.
126, 140, 228n18
ẓāhir
121, 189, 196, 225, 229
Zamir, Syed Rizwan
219
al-Zarkashī, Badr al-Dīn (d. 1392)
213
zāwiya
166n51, 240n37