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Ethics and Spirituality in Islam
Sufi adab
Series: - Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies, Volume: 1
The notion of adab is at the heart of Arab-Islamic culture. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilization, nourished by Greek and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings: good behavior, knowledge of manners, etiquette, rules and belles-lettres and finally, literature. This collection of articles tries to explore how the formulations and reformulations of adab during the first centuries of Islam engage with the crucial period of the first great spiritual masters, exploring the importance of normativity, but also of transgression, in order to define the rules themselves. Assuming that adab is ethics, the articles analyse the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until the modernity.
Contributors are: Alberto F. Ambrosio, Nelly Amri, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Ralf Elger, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Maria Chiara Giorda, Denis Gril, Paul L. Heck, Nathan Hofer, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Annabel Keeler, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Erik S. Ohlander, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Lloyd Ridgeon, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Florian Sobieroj, Renaud Soler, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Mikko Viitamäki.
Contributors are: Alberto F. Ambrosio, Nelly Amri, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Ralf Elger, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Maria Chiara Giorda, Denis Gril, Paul L. Heck, Nathan Hofer, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Annabel Keeler, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Erik S. Ohlander, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Lloyd Ridgeon, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Florian Sobieroj, Renaud Soler, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Mikko Viitamäki.
Francesco Chiabotti is research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology of the Eberhard Karls University, TuÌbingen. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Aix-Marseille (2014). His research focuses on the life and the works of Ê¿Abd al-KarÄ«m al-QushayrÄ« (d. 1072).
Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire dâEtudes 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.
Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire dâEtudes 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.
"Ethics and Spirituality in Islam will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Islam, and should find its place in every major research library."
Atif Khalil in: Journal of Islamic Ethics, 4, 2020. "Cet ouvrage dâune grande richesse constitue un apport précieux à la compréhension de lâhistoire du soufisme, et permet dâenvisager les grandes étapes de cette histoire sous lâangle de lâadab jusquâà lâépoque la plus récente. (...) La littérature soufie est à tel point traversée par cette notion dâadab que les auteurs de lâintroduction, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi, concluent que « tenter lâhistoire de lâadab soufi revient à écrire lâhistoire du soufisme lui-même. » ... Il sâagit non seulement dâune contribution importante à lâhistoriographie du soufisme, mais également à lâhistoire de la civilisation islamique".
Sophie Tyser in: BCAI 32, 2018
Atif Khalil in: Journal of Islamic Ethics, 4, 2020. "Cet ouvrage dâune grande richesse constitue un apport précieux à la compréhension de lâhistoire du soufisme, et permet dâenvisager les grandes étapes de cette histoire sous lâangle de lâadab jusquâà lâépoque la plus récente. (...) La littérature soufie est à tel point traversée par cette notion dâadab que les auteurs de lâintroduction, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi, concluent que « tenter lâhistoire de lâadab soufi revient à écrire lâhistoire du soufisme lui-même. » ... Il sâagit non seulement dâune contribution importante à lâhistoriographie du soufisme, mais également à lâhistoire de la civilisation islamique".
Sophie Tyser in: BCAI 32, 2018
Preface. A project, a conference, a book
Francesco Chiabotti, Eve FeuilleboisâPierunek, Catherine MayeurâJaouen, Luca Patrizi
Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab
Catherine MayeurâJaouen and Luca Patrizi
Part 1: FORMATION AND FORMULATIONS OF SUFI ADAB
Adab et éthique dans le soufisme. Quelques constats et interrogations
Denis Gril
The concept of adab in early Sufism with particular reference to the teachings of Sahl b. Ê¿Abd AllÄh alâTustarÄ« (d. 283/896)
Annabel Keeler
Adab et éducation spirituelle (tarbiya) chez les maîtres de NÄ«shÄbÅ«r aux 3e/9e et 4e/10e siècles
JeanâJacques Thibon
Reading Medieval Persian Hagiography through the Prism of Adab: The Case of AsrÄr alâtawhÄ«d
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Literary Perspectives in Qushayrī´s Meditations on Sufi Ethics: The Ê¿UyÅ«n alâajwiba fÄ« funÅ«n alâasʾila
Florian Sobieroj
Ãthique et théologie : la pratique de lâadab dans le traité sur les Noms divins
dâAbÅ« lâQÄsim Ê¿Abd alâKarÄ«m alâQushayrÄ« (alâTaḥbÄ«r fÄ« Ê¿ilm alâtadhkÄ«r)
Francesco Chiabotti
Adab alâmulÅ«k : lâutilisation de la terminologie du pouvoir dans le soufisme médiéval
Luca Patrizi
Part 2 : ADAB AS ETHICS: NORM AND TRANSGRESSION WITHIN THE THREE MONOTHEISMS
Lâinvention des ÄdÄb : « innovations » soufies et monachisme dans lâexégèse du verset 57 : 27 du Coran
Samuela Pagani
Un système de règles de conduite dans le monachisme chrétien égyptien (5eâ7e s.)
MariaâChiara Giorda
Adab in the Thought of GhazÄlÄ« (d. 505/1111): In the Service of Mystical Insight
Paul L. Heck
Training the Prophetic Self: adab and riyÄá¸a in Jewish Sufism
Nathan Hofer
Fellowship and Fraternity in Jewish Pietism of Medieval Egypt
Elisha RussâFishbane
Reading Sufi history through ÄdÄb: The perspectives of Sufis, JawÄnmardÄn and Qalandars
Lloyd Ridgeon
Le saint fou comme modèle de lâéthique
Pierre Lory
Part 3 : GENRES OF SUFI ADAB: MANUALS, HAGIOGRAPHIES AND ADAB AS LITERATURE
Situating Group, Self, and Act in the Medieval Sufi ribÄá¹: The KitÄb zÄd alâmusÄfir waâadab alâḥÄá¸ir of Ê¿ImÄd alâDÄ«n Muḥammad alâSuhrawardÄ« (d. 655/1257)
Erik S. Ohlander
Ê¿Izz alâDÄ«n KÄshÄnÄ« and AbÅ« lâMafÄkhir YaḥyÄ BÄkharzÄ«: Proper Sufi conduct (adab) through the eyes of two Persian authors from different brotherhoods in the 13thâ14th centuries
Eve FeuilleboisâPierunek
ShÄdhilisme et malÄmatisme : lâéthique soufie dâun maître ifrÄ«qiyen dâaprès les ManÄqib du cheikh Ê¿Abd alâWahhÄb alâMzÅ«ghÄ« (m. 675/1276)
Nelly Amri
The Praise of a Sufi master as a Literary Event: alâḤasan alâYÅ«sÄ« (1631â1691), his DÄliyya (Qaṣīdat alâtahÄnÄ«), and its Commentary (Nayl alâamanÄ«)
Stefan Reichmuth
Le livre pour guide : Ãthique (adab) et cheminement spirituel (sulÅ«k) dans trois manuels sur la voie dâépoque ottomane
Rachida Chih
Part 4: SUFI ADAB AND MODERNITY
Lâépoque de lâadab : le miroir soufi au 18e siècle
Alberto F. Ambrosio
¬ṬÄhÄ alâKurdÄ« (1136/1723 â 1214/1800) between Sufi adab and literary adab
Ralf Elger
The delicate balance: Adab and mystical states in the musical assemblies of Sufis in medieval India
Mikko Viitamäki
ÄdÄb with an Absent Master : Sufis and Good Manners in the TijaÌniyya
Michele Petrone
Lâadab soufi en Ãgypte à lâheure du réformisme musulman : Lâanthologie dâAḥmad alâḤalawÄnÄ« en 1949
Catherine MayeurâJaouen
Transmission and Practice in Sufi adab of the ḤÄfiáºiyya Khalwatiyya, a Sufi brotherhood of MiddleâEgypt (19thâ20th century)
Renaud Soler
Index of Quranic verses
Index of proper names and titles
Index of keywords and notions
Francesco Chiabotti, Eve FeuilleboisâPierunek, Catherine MayeurâJaouen, Luca Patrizi
Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab
Catherine MayeurâJaouen and Luca Patrizi
Part 1: FORMATION AND FORMULATIONS OF SUFI ADAB
Adab et éthique dans le soufisme. Quelques constats et interrogations
Denis Gril
The concept of adab in early Sufism with particular reference to the teachings of Sahl b. Ê¿Abd AllÄh alâTustarÄ« (d. 283/896)
Annabel Keeler
Adab et éducation spirituelle (tarbiya) chez les maîtres de NÄ«shÄbÅ«r aux 3e/9e et 4e/10e siècles
JeanâJacques Thibon
Reading Medieval Persian Hagiography through the Prism of Adab: The Case of AsrÄr alâtawhÄ«d
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Literary Perspectives in Qushayrī´s Meditations on Sufi Ethics: The Ê¿UyÅ«n alâajwiba fÄ« funÅ«n alâasʾila
Florian Sobieroj
Ãthique et théologie : la pratique de lâadab dans le traité sur les Noms divins
dâAbÅ« lâQÄsim Ê¿Abd alâKarÄ«m alâQushayrÄ« (alâTaḥbÄ«r fÄ« Ê¿ilm alâtadhkÄ«r)
Francesco Chiabotti
Adab alâmulÅ«k : lâutilisation de la terminologie du pouvoir dans le soufisme médiéval
Luca Patrizi
Part 2 : ADAB AS ETHICS: NORM AND TRANSGRESSION WITHIN THE THREE MONOTHEISMS
Lâinvention des ÄdÄb : « innovations » soufies et monachisme dans lâexégèse du verset 57 : 27 du Coran
Samuela Pagani
Un système de règles de conduite dans le monachisme chrétien égyptien (5eâ7e s.)
MariaâChiara Giorda
Adab in the Thought of GhazÄlÄ« (d. 505/1111): In the Service of Mystical Insight
Paul L. Heck
Training the Prophetic Self: adab and riyÄá¸a in Jewish Sufism
Nathan Hofer
Fellowship and Fraternity in Jewish Pietism of Medieval Egypt
Elisha RussâFishbane
Reading Sufi history through ÄdÄb: The perspectives of Sufis, JawÄnmardÄn and Qalandars
Lloyd Ridgeon
Le saint fou comme modèle de lâéthique
Pierre Lory
Part 3 : GENRES OF SUFI ADAB: MANUALS, HAGIOGRAPHIES AND ADAB AS LITERATURE
Situating Group, Self, and Act in the Medieval Sufi ribÄá¹: The KitÄb zÄd alâmusÄfir waâadab alâḥÄá¸ir of Ê¿ImÄd alâDÄ«n Muḥammad alâSuhrawardÄ« (d. 655/1257)
Erik S. Ohlander
Ê¿Izz alâDÄ«n KÄshÄnÄ« and AbÅ« lâMafÄkhir YaḥyÄ BÄkharzÄ«: Proper Sufi conduct (adab) through the eyes of two Persian authors from different brotherhoods in the 13thâ14th centuries
Eve FeuilleboisâPierunek
ShÄdhilisme et malÄmatisme : lâéthique soufie dâun maître ifrÄ«qiyen dâaprès les ManÄqib du cheikh Ê¿Abd alâWahhÄb alâMzÅ«ghÄ« (m. 675/1276)
Nelly Amri
The Praise of a Sufi master as a Literary Event: alâḤasan alâYÅ«sÄ« (1631â1691), his DÄliyya (Qaṣīdat alâtahÄnÄ«), and its Commentary (Nayl alâamanÄ«)
Stefan Reichmuth
Le livre pour guide : Ãthique (adab) et cheminement spirituel (sulÅ«k) dans trois manuels sur la voie dâépoque ottomane
Rachida Chih
Part 4: SUFI ADAB AND MODERNITY
Lâépoque de lâadab : le miroir soufi au 18e siècle
Alberto F. Ambrosio
¬ṬÄhÄ alâKurdÄ« (1136/1723 â 1214/1800) between Sufi adab and literary adab
Ralf Elger
The delicate balance: Adab and mystical states in the musical assemblies of Sufis in medieval India
Mikko Viitamäki
ÄdÄb with an Absent Master : Sufis and Good Manners in the TijaÌniyya
Michele Petrone
Lâadab soufi en Ãgypte à lâheure du réformisme musulman : Lâanthologie dâAḥmad alâḤalawÄnÄ« en 1949
Catherine MayeurâJaouen
Transmission and Practice in Sufi adab of the ḤÄfiáºiyya Khalwatiyya, a Sufi brotherhood of MiddleâEgypt (19thâ20th century)
Renaud Soler
Index of Quranic verses
Index of proper names and titles
Index of keywords and notions
All interested in general in the history of religious ethics, more particularly Islamic Ethics, and anyone concerned with the history of Sufism and Sufi literature.