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Materialien zur alten islamischen Frömmigkeit
Series: - Basic Texts of Islamic Mysticism, Volume: 2
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Arabic texts dating from the 3rd-4th/9th-10th centuries by the following five authors are here presented: AbÅ« Shaykh al-BurjulÄnÄ«, IbrÄhÄ«m al-KhuttalÄ«, Ibn al-NaḥḥÄs, AbÅ« Ê¿Abd AllÄh al-RÅ«dhabÄrÄ« and Ibn ḤamakÄn. The texts appear in transliteration along with a German translation. Their chains of transmission (isnÄds) are analyzed and parallels with other authors are noted. The subject dealt with throughout is mystical piety. These highly interesting materials throw light on Islamic mysticism's early stage of development.
Bernd Radtke (born in 1944) teaches at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of numerous publications on Islamic intellectual and cultural history, in particular on Islamic mystcism.