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Author:   Richard Todd
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   90
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.516kg
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9789004271234

ISBN 10:   9004271236
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   28 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Transliteration Introduction 1. Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi 2. Qunawi's anthropology in context 3. The political setting 4. The cultural and intellectual climate 5. Qunawi's biography in medieval sources PART ONE: QUNAWI'S LIFE AND WORK I. Life and Times 1. Early life and education 2. Travels and teaching in the Near East 3. Konya 4. Students and disciples 5. Final years II. Qunawi's Works 1. Qunawi's corpus 2. Qunawi's methodology 3. The Miftah ghayb al-jamʿ wa tafsili-hi 4. The Iʿjaz al-bayan fi ta'wil umm al-Qurʾan 5. The polemical correspondence with Tusi 6. The Nafthat al-masdur wa tuhfat al-shakur 7. The Risalat al-nusus fi tahqiq al-tawr al-makhsus 8. al-Risala al-murshidiya 9. al-Nafahat al-ilahiya 10. al-Fukuk fi asrar mustanadat hikam al-Fusus 11. The Sharh al-ahadith al-arba`iniya III. Intellectual Currents and Debates 1. Qunawi's work in relation to Ibn ʿArabi's 2. The critique of rational inquiry 3. Qunawi's doctrinal synthesis IV. Cosmology 1. Qunawi's cosmology in context 2. Cosmological questions in Qunawi's letters to Tusi 3. The sublunary world PART TWO: QUNAWI'S ANTHROPOLOGY V. Man's Metaphysical Origins 1. Indeterminacy and determination 2. The cognitive relationship 3. The divine affairs 4. The immutable essences 5. The common measure 6. The barzakh 7. The five presences 8. The divine secret VI. The Human State 1. The perfection of the last 2. The stages of lodging and settling 3. The soul 4. Sustenance 5. The separation of body and soul 6. Man's posthumous states VII. Liberation 1. Providence 2. The law and the way 3. Reorientation 4. Love 5. The spiritual ascent 6. Theophany VIII. The Reception of Qunawi's Thought Conclusion Appendix I: Critical List of Qunawi's works Appendix II: Qunawi's ijaza-s to Farghani and Jandi Appendix III: Translated Excerpts from Qunawi's Epistemological Texts Bibliography Glossary of Philosophical and Sufi Terms Index

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...Richard Todd's monograph is a gracefully written, meticulous and thoughtful contribution to Islamic studies and a welcome addition to previously published works on late medieval Muslim Sufis. It will primarily benefit students and scholars of Sufism, Islamic philosophy and theology and offers incisive observations on the ontology and psychology of Ibn 'Arabi's school. Beyond Islamic studies, a reader who is interested in spirituality and esoteric philosophy might find it very stimulating and suggestive. Abdessamad Belhaj in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 26:3, 405-406 (2015). Dans cette etude relativement courte mais dense, Richard Todd, rend justice a la personnalite intellectuelle et spirituelle de Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (m. 673/1274), principal continuateur et diffuseur de l'oeuvre de Muhyi l-Din Ibn 'Arabi. [...] ...ce travail a le grand merite d'etre la premiere etude d'ensemble sur Sadr al-Din. Il est fonde sur une lecture attentive des textes qu'il fait enter en resonance. Son annotation est precieuse et ouvre nombre de pistes de recherche. A la suite des traveux de W. Chittick, il fait entrer definitivement Qunawi dans l' histoire du soufisme et de la pensee musulmane. Richard Todd apporte ainsi une contribution importante a notre connaissance de la premiere diffusion de la doctrine d'Ibn al-'Arabi. Denis Gril in Journal of Sufi Studies 4, 85-98 (2015). ... eine sehr gut lesbare, bisweilen bedauerlicherweise allzu knapp gehaltene Einfuhrung in die Lebens- und Gedankenwelt Qunawis... . Elvira Walkelnig, University of Lausanne Todd's exposition of al-Qunawi's ideas is precise and nuanced throughout, [...]. ...an impressive piece of scholarship. Nicolai Sinai in Journal of Islamic Studies 27 (2): 222-225 (2016). In spite of Qunawi's declared preference of mysticism, Todd notes that in the end what we get of him as an overall portrait is that here we have a religious scholar, and lucid thinker actively involved in the intellectual and spiritual life of the Islamic Near East: his interpreting, systematising and disseminating Ibn Arabi's doctrines, added to his indoctrination of some of the credos of metaphysics render him not only as mystic but a philosopher as well - albeit a philosopher aware of the limitations of philosophical methodology. Of fundamental importance and great value we think is Todd's translation in his book of Excerpts from Qunawi's Epistemonological Texts. Stavros Nikolaidis

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Richard Todd, D.Phil. (2005), University of Oxford, teaches Arabic language and literature at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and classical Arabic poetry. His latest publication focuses on esoteric interpretations of the Qur'an.

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