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In Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts. Positioning Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalām and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kūrānī’s work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas with Ashʿarī theology, Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas became Islamic theology.

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Author:   Naser Dumairieh
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.745kg
ISBN:  

9789004499041

ISBN 10:   9004499040
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   17 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: When All Roads Led to the Ḥijāz 1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global and Local Context  1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Global Context  2 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Local Context  3 Conclusion 2 Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century  1 Educational Institutions in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century  2 Rational Sciences in the Ḥijāz  3 Isnād as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz  4 How the Rational Sciences Reached the Ḥijāz  5 Conclusion 3 Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī’s Life, Education, Teachers, and Students  1 Al-Kūrānī’s Life  2 Al-Kūrānī’s Education  3 Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers  4 Al-Kūrānī’s Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time  5 Al-Kūrānī’s Students  6 Al-Kūrānī’s Affiliation to Sufi Orders  7 Conclusion 4 Al-Kūrānī’s Works  1 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Examined)  2 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Inaccessible)  3 Works Misattributed to al-Kūrānī  4 Conclusion 5 Al-Kūrānī’s Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought  1 God is Absolute Existence (al-wujūd al-muṭlaq or al-wujūd al-maḥḍ)  2 God’s Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (taʾwīl)  3 God’s Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms  4 Nafs al-amr in al-Kūrānī’s Thought  5 Ashʿarites and Mental Existence  6 Realities: Uncreated Nonexistent Quiddities  7 God’s Knowledge of Particulars  8 Creation  9 Unity and Multiplicity  10 Destiny and Predetermination  11 Kasb: Free Will and Predestination  12 The Unity of the Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)  13 Waḥdat al-Wujūd  14 Conclusion 6 Al-Kūrānī’s Other Theological and Sufi Thought  1 The Faith of Pharaoh  2 The Precedence of God’s Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fanāʾ al-nār)  3 Satanic Verses  4 Preference for the Reality of the Kaʿba or for the Muḥammadan Reality  5 God’s Speech (kalām Allāh)  6 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text Appendix 2: Al-Kūrānī’s Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text Appendix 3: Al-Kūrānī’s Works Ordered Alphabetically Bibliography Index

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Naser Dumairieh, Ph.D. (2018) McGill University, is a researcher in post-classical Islamic philosophy and the relationship between Sufism and theology. He has published critical editions and articles related to the intellectual history of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, including a critical edition of al-Barzanjī’s al-Jādhib al-ghaybī, and another book entitled Sufism in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism is in progress.

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