Contents

pp iii-iv

Contributors

pp v-v

Acknowledgements

pp vi-vi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Mystical Theologies

pp 13-14

1 - Mystical Theology and the Traditionalist Hermeneutics of Maybudī's Kashf al-Asrār

pp 15-30

2 - The All-Comprehensive Circle (al-Iḥāṭa): Soul, Intellect, and the Oneness of Existence in the Doctrine of Ibn Sab'īn

pp 31-48

3 - One Aspect of the Akbarian Turn in Shī'ī Theology

pp 49-62

4 - Sufism and Theology in the Confessions of Ṣā'in al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 830/1437)

pp 63-82

5 - A Sufi Theology Fit for a Shī'ī King: The Gawhar-i Murād of 'Abd al-Razzāq Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661–2)

pp 83-98

Part II - Theological Approaches to Sufism

pp 99-100

6 - The Mystic and the Sceptic in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

pp 101-122

7 - Ibn Taymiyya's Commentary on the Creed of al-Ḥallāj

pp 123-136

8 - Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534) on Ibn 'Arabī's Hagiology

pp 137-157

9 - Scriptural Sufism and Scriptural Anti-Sufism: Theology and Mysticism amongst the Shī'ī Akhbāriyya

pp 158-176

10 - Reconciling Sufism with Theology: Abū l-Wafā al-Taftāzānī and the Construct of ‘al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmī’ in Modern Egypt

pp 177-198

Index

pp 199-201