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Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism
Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī’s (d. 1101/1690) Theology of Sufism
Series: - Islamicate Intellectual History, Volume: 9
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
All interested in post-classical Islamic thought, the relationship of Islamic theology and Sufism, Ibn ʿArabī, the study of the Wahhabi movement, and the history of the Ḥijāz and the Ottoman era.