MyBook
EUR  â¬30.00EUR  â¬25.00 excl. VAT
Visualizing Sufism
Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century)
Series: - Islamicate Intellectual History, Volume: 10
Volume Editor:
Visualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticismâIbn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«, Aḥmad al-BÅ«nÄ«, SaÊ¿d al-DÄ«n ḤamÅ«yeh, al-ShaÊ¿rÄnÄ«â, and in intellectual networksâḤurÅ«fiyya and Bektashiyya, ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ« and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history.
Contributors
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.
Contributors
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.
Giovanni Maria Martini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Naples LâOrientale, is a research fellow at that university. His primary areas of interest are the history of Sufism, the history of the occult sciences in the Islamicate world, and Qurʾanic Studies.
Contributors
Elizabeth Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.
Contributors
Elizabeth Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âGiovanni Maria Martini
1 Diagrams and Visionary Experience in al-BÅ«nÄ«âs (d. 622/1225) Laá¹Äʾif al-ishÄrÄt fÄ« al-ḥurÅ«f al-Ê¿ulwÄ«yat
âNoah Gardiner
2 Illustrating the Forms: Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Images in al-FutūḥÄt al-Makkiyya
âAli Karjoo-Ravary
3 Visualizing the Architecture of the Universe: Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs (d. 638/1240) Diagrams in Chapter 371 of the Meccan Openings
âSophie Tyser
4 Reading and Reciting the Qurʾan: Calligraphic Spaces in SaÊ¿d al-DÄ«n ḤamÅ«yehâs (d. 649/1252) KitÄb al-MaḥbÅ«b
âElizabeth Alexandrin
5 Use of Diagrams in the ḤurÅ«fÄ« and Nuqá¹avÄ« Manuscripts, and Possible Links between the ḤurÅ«fÄ« âVerbalâ and the Bektashi Visual Iconographies
âOrkhan Mir-Kasimov
6 ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ«âs (d. 810/1407) Visual Sufism: Diagrams, Intellectual Networks, and the Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge in 14th Century Tabriz and beyond
âGiovanni Maria Martini
7 âSensible Imagesâ: Pictograms in the Manuscript Transmission of Ê¿Abd al-WahhÄb al-ShaÊ¿rÄnÄ«âs (d. 973/1565) al-MÄ«zÄn al-kubrÄ
âEvyn Kropf
Index
List of Plates
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âGiovanni Maria Martini
1 Diagrams and Visionary Experience in al-BÅ«nÄ«âs (d. 622/1225) Laá¹Äʾif al-ishÄrÄt fÄ« al-ḥurÅ«f al-Ê¿ulwÄ«yat
âNoah Gardiner
2 Illustrating the Forms: Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Images in al-FutūḥÄt al-Makkiyya
âAli Karjoo-Ravary
3 Visualizing the Architecture of the Universe: Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«âs (d. 638/1240) Diagrams in Chapter 371 of the Meccan Openings
âSophie Tyser
4 Reading and Reciting the Qurʾan: Calligraphic Spaces in SaÊ¿d al-DÄ«n ḤamÅ«yehâs (d. 649/1252) KitÄb al-MaḥbÅ«b
âElizabeth Alexandrin
5 Use of Diagrams in the ḤurÅ«fÄ« and Nuqá¹avÄ« Manuscripts, and Possible Links between the ḤurÅ«fÄ« âVerbalâ and the Bektashi Visual Iconographies
âOrkhan Mir-Kasimov
6 ShÄ«rÄ«n MaghribÄ«âs (d. 810/1407) Visual Sufism: Diagrams, Intellectual Networks, and the Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge in 14th Century Tabriz and beyond
âGiovanni Maria Martini
7 âSensible Imagesâ: Pictograms in the Manuscript Transmission of Ê¿Abd al-WahhÄb al-ShaÊ¿rÄnÄ«âs (d. 973/1565) al-MÄ«zÄn al-kubrÄ
âEvyn Kropf
Index
All interested in the history of Sufism and the art of the Islamic book, and anyone concerned with the role of visual materials in the history of religions.