The essays collected here reflect the great esteem in which Professor Hermann Landolt, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Thought at the Institute of Islamic Studies of McGill University and Senior Research Fellow at 51勛圖厙, is held by his colleagues and students around the world.
This publication not only reflects the scholarly interests of Hermann Landolt in philosophy, Sufism and Shi尪ism, but also takes a timely and refreshing look at the Islamic traditions of mysticism, philosophy, theology, historiography, and intellectual debate generally from earliest times to the twentieth century, in a series of diverse and stimulating approaches. As such, they are a corrective to the current alienating discourse on Islam which portrays it as a source of extremism and fanatical violence. A true warrior here is one whose struggle is for a more perfect understanding and experience of the world as the creation of a just and merciful God.
The essays, by an impressive list of scholars and experts, deal with Islams inner life as considered by some of its greatest representatives intellectual personalities such as Ibn 尪Arab蘋, al-Ghazl蘋, Kirmn蘋, Najm al-D蘋n Kubr, al-Qd蘋 al-Nu尪mn, al-Rz蘋, Ibn S蘋n and Suhraward蘋. New source material is also presented, analysed and translated.
Acknowledgements
Note on the Transliteration and Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Todd Lawson
2. Bibliography of the Works of Hermann Landolt
Todd Lawson
PART 1: Classical Islam
3. The Five Limbs of the Soul: A Manichaean Motif in Muslim Garb?
Karim Douglas Crow
4. Narrative Themes and Devices in al-Waqidis Kitb al-maghz蘋
Donald P. Little
5. The Rise and Decline of Taqiyya in Twelver Shi尪ism
Lynda Clarke
6. 兜硃梭櫻聆硃 according to al-Junayd (d. 298/910)
Ahmet T. Karamustafa
7. Limportance du Trait矇 de lharmonie dl-Farabi: ses vis矇es politiques
Fabienne Pironet
8. Philosophy of Religion in al-Frb蘋, Ibn S蘋n and Ibn 廜泉fayl
Paul E. Walker
9. Revisiting Religious Shi尪ism and Early Sufism: The Fourth/Tenth-Century Dialogue of The Sage and the Young Disciple
James Winston Morris
10. Al-Q廎蘋 al-Nu尪mn and the Concept of 詁櫻廜虹紳
Bulbul Shah
11. The Concept of Knowledge according to al-Kirmn蘋 (d. after 411/1021)
Faquir Muhammad Hunzai
12. An Early Ismaili View of Other Religions: A Chapter from the Kitb al-I廜ρ廎 by Ab贖 廎勾tim al-Rz蘋 (d. ca. 322/934935)
Shin Nomoto
13. An Ismaili interpretation of Ibn S蘋ns Qa廜蘋dat al-Nafs
Wilferd Madelung
14. yat al-N贖r: A Metaphor for Where We Come From, What We Are and Where We Are Going
Soraya Mahdi Hajjaji-Jarrah
PART 2: Medieval Islam
15. Reading al-Ghazl蘋: The Case of Psychology
Peter Heath
16. Stories of A廎叮ad al-Ghazl蘋 Playing the Witness in Tabriz (Shams-i Tabr蘋z蘋s interest in 莽堯櫻堯勳餃-莉櫻堝蘋)
Nasrollah Pourjavady
17. Reason (尪硃梁梭Reason, intellect, mind. This noun does not appear as such in the Quran, although the verb 尪aqala is used (as in Q. 2:44, Do you not understand?). See also 尪硃梁梭i…) and Direct Intuition (鳥喝莽堯櫻堯硃餃硃) in the works of Shihb al-D蘋n al-Suhraward蘋 (d. 587/1191)
Roxanne Marcotte
18. Al-Suhrawardi on Body as Extension: An Alternative to Hylomorphism from Plato to Leibniz
John Walbridge
19. Mi尪rj al-kalima: de la Risla Qushayriyya aux Fut贖廎汁t Makkiyya
Michel Chodkiewicz
20. Al-Shahrastn蘋s Contribution to Medieval Islamic Thought
Diana Steigerwald
21. The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology: Reflections on the Philosophy of Af廎al al-D蘋n Kshn蘋
William C. Chittick
22. The Sciences of Intuition and the Riches of Inspiration: Najm al-D蘋n Kubr in Jm蘋s Nafa廎汁t al-uns
Elizabeth Ross Alexandrin
23. Two Narratives on Najm al-D蘋n Kubr and Ra廎蘋 al-D蘋n 尪Al蘋 Ll from a Thirteenth-Century Source: Notes on a Manuscript in the Raza Library, Rampur
Devin DeWeese
24. Ibn S蘋n and Meister Eckhart on Being
Etin Anwar
25. La Vision de Dieu dans lOnirocritique Musulmane M矇di矇vale
Pierre Lory
26. The Spiritual Journey in Kubraw蘋 Sufism
Leonard Lewisohn
27. Notes on the Transmission of Mystical Philosophy: Ibn 尪Arabi according to 尪Abd al-Wahhb al-Sha尪rn蘋
Richard J. A. McGregor
PART 3: Pre-Modern Islam
28. Shh 廜珀hir and Nizr蘋 Ismaili Disguises
Farhad Daftary
29. Some Notes on Shaykh A廎叮ad Sirhind蘋 and the Problem of the Mystical Significance of Paradise
Abdollah Vakily
30. The Naqshband蘋 Mujaddid蘋 Sufi Orders Ascendancy in Central Asia Through the Eyes of Its Masters and Disciples (1100s1200s/1600s1800s)
Sajida S. Alvi
31. Le combatant du 喧硃尨滄蘋梭The elucidation of the inner or esoteric meaning, b廜虹n , from the literal wording or apparent meaning of a text, ritual or religious prescription.. Un po癡me de Moll 廜糎dr sur 尪Al蘋 (Aspects de limamologie duod矇cimane IX)
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
32. Fay廎 al-Kshn蘋s 兜硃梭櫻聆硃: The Confluence of Shi尪i Imamology and Mysticism
Shigeru Kamada
PART 4: Modern Islam
33. The Faith of Pharaoh: A Disputed Question in Islamic Theology
Eric Ormsby
34. The Eight Rules of Junayd: A General Overview of the Genesis and Development of Islamic Dervish Orders
Bernd Radtke
35. Symphony of Gnosis: A Self-Definition of the Ismaili Ginn Tradition
Shafique N. Virani
36. The Attitude of the 尪Ulam尨 towards the Government in Nineteenth-Century Iran, Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi
37. Traditional Philosophy in Iran with Reference to Modern Trends
Mehdi Mohaghegh
38. Traces of Modernisation and Westernisation? Some Comparative Considerations concerning Late Bukhran Chronicles
Bert G. Fragner
Magisterial… Profound
Robert Dickson Crane, The Muslim World Book Review
Todd Lawson is Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. He has published numerous articles to academic journals on the interpretation of the Qur尨an and other subjects in Islamic studies.