Intellectual Life in the Hijaz
before Wahhabism : New,
Ibrahim al-Kurani's (d. 1101/1690) Theology of Sufism,
[A5+] Paperback - 370 pages,
by Naser Dumairieh,
Published by DGB Leiden.
Description :
In Intellectual Life in the Hijaz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Hijaz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts.
Positioning Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Hijaz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalam and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kurani’s work is the culmination of the philosophised Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of shaykh Ibn 'Arabi’s ideas with Ashʿari theology, Ibn ʿArabi’s ideas became Islamic theology.
Shaykh Ibrahim al-Kurani [d.1101AH],
He is al-Shaykh al-Imam Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan al-Kūrānī, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi, (1616–1690 Common Era) was an influential 17th-century Kurdish Islamic scholar, theologian, hadith master, and Sufi of the Shafi'i school who lived and taught in Madinah.
He wrote numerous treatises on Islamic law, syntax, theology, and Sufism, including Ithaf al-dhaki (a key commentary addressing debates surrounding Wahdat al-Wujud) and extensive writings on Arabic grammar and the declaration of faith.
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 Hijaz, including a critical edition of Imam al-Barzanji’s al-Jadhib al-ghaybi, and another book entitled Sufism in the Hijaz before Wahhabism is in progress.
Table of Contents :
---Acknowledgements
---Introduction: When All Roads Led to the Hijaz,
---Chapter [1]. The Seventeenth-Century Hijaz in Its Global and Local Context,
-------1. The Seventeenth-Century Hijaz in its Global Context,
-------2. The Seventeenth-Century Hijaz in its Local Context,
-------3. Conclusion.
---Chapter [2]. Intellectual Life in the Hijaz in the Seventeenth Century,
-------1. Educational Institutions in the Hijaz in the Seventeenth Century,
-------2. Rational Sciences in the Hijaz,
-------3. Isnad as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century Hijaz,
-------4. How the Rational Sciences Reached the Hijaz,
-------5. Conclusion.
---Chapter [3]. Ibrahim al-Kurani’s Life, Education, Teachers, and Students,
-------1. Al-Kurani’s Life,
-------2. Al-Kurani’s Education,
-------3. Al-Kurani’s Teachers,
-------4. Al-Kurani’s Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time,
-------5. Al-Kurani’s Students,
-------6. Al-Kurani’s Affiliation to Sufi Orders,
-------7. Conclusion.
---Chapter [4]. Al-Kurani’s Works,
-------1. Al-Kurani’s Works (Examined),
-------2. Al-Kurani’s Works (Inaccessible),
-------3. Works Misattributed to al-Kurani,
-------4. Conclusion.
---Chapter [5]. Al-Kurani’s Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought,
-------1. God is Absolute Existence (al-Wujud al-Mutlaq or al-Wujud al-Mahd),
-------2. God’s Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (taʾwil),
-------3. God’s Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms,
-------4. Nafs al-amr in Al-Kurani’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 (Wahdat al-Sifat),
-------13. Wahdat al-Wujud,
-------14. Conclusion.
---Chapter [6]. Al-Kurani’s Other Theological and Sufi Thought,
-------1. The Faith of Pharaoh,
-------2. The Precedence of God’s Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (Fanaʾ al-Nar),
-------3. Satanic Verses,
-------4. Preference for the Reality of the Kaʿba or for the Muhammadan Reality,
-------5. God’s Speech (kalam Allah),
-------6. Conclusion.
---Conclusion.
---Appendices :
------Appendix 1: Al-Kurani’s Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text,
------Appendix 2: Al-Kurani’s Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text,
------Appendix 3: Al-Kurani’s Works Ordered Alphabetically.
------Bibliography,
------Index.
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