Table of Contents

Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Contributors

Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata

Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts



1 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian

 Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom



2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī

 Kazuyo Murata



3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil

 Ali Karjoo-Ravary



4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light

 Shankar Nair



5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn’s Makhzan-i ʿirfān

 Maria Massi Dakake



Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition



6 Some Notes on Ibn ʿArabī’s Correlative Prophetology

 Gregory Vandamme



7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)

 Alireza Pharaa



8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī’s Nafaḥāt

 Justin Cancelliere



9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʿArabī’s Lettrist Cosmogony

 Matthew Melvin-Koushki



10 Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light

 Marlene DuBois



11 Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God’s Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)

 Naser Dumairieh



12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim

 Omar Edaibat



13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa’s Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya)

 Oludamini Ogunnaike



Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology



14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʿili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw

 Khalil Andani



15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maʿād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6–7

 Davlat Dadikhuda



16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi’s Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies

 Rosabel Ansari



17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood

 Muhammad U. Faruque



18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context

 Sayeh Meisami



19 Asad Allāh Qazwīnī’s Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa

 Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari



Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation



20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation

 Amer Latif



21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission

 Mukhtar H. Ali



22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative

 Laury Silvers



23 The Tao of maʿrifa: Adam’s Encounter with Hell in Paradise

 Mohammed Mehdi Ali



24 A Supplication for God’s Mercy on the Day of ʿArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʿī al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī

 Tahera Qutbuddin



25 Made in God’s Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari

 Yousef Casewit



26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher

 Atif Khalil



Index of Names and Terms

About the Author

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 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt (SUNY Press, 2023).

Reviews

"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." – 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." – Reviewer B