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Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation
Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 202
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Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically sound and analytically rigorous expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese texts in these disciplines, demonstrating just how important careful reading and responsible translation methods are to the study of pre-modern worldviews.
Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.
Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.
Mohammed Rustom, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, is Professor of Islamic Thought at Carleton University and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His most recent book is entitled Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of Ê¿Ayn al-Quá¸Ät (SUNY Press, 2023).
"This massive book is a fitting tribute to William Chittick and Sachiko Murata, and the papers contained therein are all written in the best traditions of modern, academic, critical textual, and philological scholarship." â Reviewer A
"The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." â Reviewer B
"In summary, this volumeâs colorful chapters will easily satisfy the tastes of a wide range of scholars of religion and general readers of classical literature. In addition, Mohammed Rustom has succeeded in drawing together an exceptional collection of articles that is a treasure for the disciplines of Islamic studies and comparative studies. General readers and experts in the field will equally enjoy this collection of essays paying homage to Professors Chittick and Murata, and their half-century-long achievements in the humanities and social sciences." â Ashkan Bahrani, Monash University, in: JMIAS 75 (2024)
"The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." â Reviewer B
"In summary, this volumeâs colorful chapters will easily satisfy the tastes of a wide range of scholars of religion and general readers of classical literature. In addition, Mohammed Rustom has succeeded in drawing together an exceptional collection of articles that is a treasure for the disciplines of Islamic studies and comparative studies. General readers and experts in the field will equally enjoy this collection of essays paying homage to Professors Chittick and Murata, and their half-century-long achievements in the humanities and social sciences." â Ashkan Bahrani, Monash University, in: JMIAS 75 (2024)
Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
1 Ê¿Ayn al-Quá¸Ätâs TamhÄ«dÄt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian
âMasoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom
2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī
âKazuyo Murata
3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of BÄ«dil
âAli Karjoo-Ravary
4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light
âShankar Nair
5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuá¹£rat AmÄ«nâs Makhzan-i Ê¿irfÄn
âMaria Massi Dakake
6 Some Notes on Ibn Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Correlative Prophetology
âGregory Vandamme
7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsÄn) as the Station of No Station (maqÄm lÄ maqÄm) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insÄn al-kÄmil)
âAlireza Pharaa
8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-QÅ«nawÄ«âs NafaḥÄt
âJustin Cancelliere
9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Lettrist Cosmogony
âMatthew Melvin-Koushki
10 JÄmÄ« and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light
âMarlene DuBois
11 Al-QushÄshÄ« and al-KÅ«rÄnÄ« on the Unity of Godâs Attributes (waḥdat al-á¹£ifÄt)
âNaser Dumairieh
12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh AbÅ« Bakr b. SÄlim
âOmar Edaibat
13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafaâs Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-ManáºÅ«ma lil-iá¹£á¹ilÄḥ al-ṣūfiyya)
âOludamini Ogunnaike
14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The IsmaÊ¿ili Hermeneutics of á¹£alÄt according to al-SijistÄnÄ« and NÄá¹£ir-i Khusraw
âKhalil Andani
15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maÊ¿Äd): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aá¸á¸¥awiyya 6â7
âDavlat Dadikhuda
16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdiâs Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies
âRosabel Ansari
17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: ShÄh WalÄ« AllÄh and the End of Selfhood
âMuhammad U. Faruque
18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context
âSayeh Meisami
19 Asad AllÄh QazwÄ«nÄ«âs Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of KitÄb-i WalÄyat-i muá¹laqa
âCyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari
20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation
âAmer Latif
21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission
âMukhtar H. Ali
22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative
âLaury Silvers
23 The Tao of maÊ¿rifa: Adamâs Encounter with Hell in Paradise
âMohammed Mehdi Ali
24 A Supplication for Godâs Mercy on the Day of Ê¿Arafa by the Fatimid Chief dÄÊ¿Ä« al-Muʾayyad al-ShÄ«rÄzÄ«
âTahera Qutbuddin
25 Made in Godâs Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on SÅ«rat al-InsÄn (QÂ 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari
âYousef Casewit
26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher
âAtif Khalil
Index of Names and Terms
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts
1 Ê¿Ayn al-Quá¸Ätâs TamhÄ«dÄt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian
âMasoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom
2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī
âKazuyo Murata
3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of BÄ«dil
âAli Karjoo-Ravary
4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light
âShankar Nair
5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuá¹£rat AmÄ«nâs Makhzan-i Ê¿irfÄn
âMaria Massi Dakake
Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition
6 Some Notes on Ibn Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Correlative Prophetology
âGregory Vandamme
7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsÄn) as the Station of No Station (maqÄm lÄ maqÄm) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insÄn al-kÄmil)
âAlireza Pharaa
8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-QÅ«nawÄ«âs NafaḥÄt
âJustin Cancelliere
9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn Ê¿ArabÄ«âs Lettrist Cosmogony
âMatthew Melvin-Koushki
10 JÄmÄ« and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light
âMarlene DuBois
11 Al-QushÄshÄ« and al-KÅ«rÄnÄ« on the Unity of Godâs Attributes (waḥdat al-á¹£ifÄt)
âNaser Dumairieh
12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh AbÅ« Bakr b. SÄlim
âOmar Edaibat
13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafaâs Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-ManáºÅ«ma lil-iá¹£á¹ilÄḥ al-ṣūfiyya)
âOludamini Ogunnaike
Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology
14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The IsmaÊ¿ili Hermeneutics of á¹£alÄt according to al-SijistÄnÄ« and NÄá¹£ir-i Khusraw
âKhalil Andani
15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maÊ¿Äd): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aá¸á¸¥awiyya 6â7
âDavlat Dadikhuda
16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdiâs Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies
âRosabel Ansari
17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: ShÄh WalÄ« AllÄh and the End of Selfhood
âMuhammad U. Faruque
18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context
âSayeh Meisami
19 Asad AllÄh QazwÄ«nÄ«âs Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of KitÄb-i WalÄyat-i muá¹laqa
âCyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari
Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation
20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation
âAmer Latif
21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission
âMukhtar H. Ali
22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative
âLaury Silvers
23 The Tao of maÊ¿rifa: Adamâs Encounter with Hell in Paradise
âMohammed Mehdi Ali
24 A Supplication for Godâs Mercy on the Day of Ê¿Arafa by the Fatimid Chief dÄÊ¿Ä« al-Muʾayyad al-ShÄ«rÄzÄ«
âTahera Qutbuddin
25 Made in Godâs Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on SÅ«rat al-InsÄn (QÂ 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari
âYousef Casewit
26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher
âAtif Khalil
Index of Names and Terms
Students and scholars of Sufi literature, Persianate Islam, Islamic philosophy, Islamic cosmology, cross-cultural philosophy, philosophy of religion, and translation theory.