Riddling Occultly the Cosmic Text: Kashifi's Jewels of Exegesis (original) (raw)

Islamic Esotericism, special issue, ed. Liana Saif Correspondences, vol. 7, no. 1 (2019)

OPEN ACCESS http://correspondencesjournal.com/volume-7/issue-1/ 1) Liana Saif. What is Islamic Esotericism? 2) W. Sasson Chahanovich. Ottoman Eschatological Esotericism: Introducing Jafr in Ps. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s The Tree of Nuʿmān (al-Shajarah al-nuʿmāniyyah) 61–108 3) Keith Cantú. Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir, 109–165 4) Michael Muhammad Knight. “I am Sorry, Mr. White Man, These are Secrets that You are Not Permitted to Learn”: The Supreme Wisdom Lessons and Problem Book 167–200 5) Biko Gray. The Traumatic Mysticism of Othered Others: Blackness, Islam, and Esotericism in the Five Percenters 201–237 6) Francesco Piraino. Esotericisation and De-esotericisation of Sufism: The Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya Shādhiliyya in Italy, 239–276 7) Mark Sedgwick. Islamic and Western Esotericism 277–299 109–165

The Past and Future of the Study of Islamic Esotericism

Religion Compass, 2024

The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al-bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like "mysticism" and "occultism," it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al-bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to esotericism and sectarian views. Furthermore, al-bāṭiniyya has faced marginalization because of its association with narratives of Islamic civilization's decline. Even when the decline narrative is challenged, esotericism is often depicted as an "intellectual defect." This article examines the ways the "esoteric" and "esotericism" have been studied, particularly in relation to the study of Shīʿī esotericism and Sufism. It also highlights developments in the scholarship on Islam and esotericism, aiming to draw a picture of an emerging coherence in the study of "Islamic esotericism." This is explored against the backdrop of twentieth-century Islamic discourses that grappled with the place of esotericism within Islamic knowledge and pedagogy. Here, the focus is on the "Islamization of Knowledge" project and its key figures: Ismāʿīl al-Fārūqī, Syed Naquib al-Attas, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Muḥammad al-Kashnawī and the Everyday Life of the Occult

Ousmane Oumar Kane (ed.) Islamic Scholarship in Africa New Directions and Global Contexts, 2021

First published in paperback in Africa by Cerdis Nord Foire Cité Marine Villa 91 Dakar Senegal www.cerdis.org All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-84701-231-9 (James Currey hardback) ISBN 978-0-9986263-4-5 (Cerdis paperback edition) ISBN 978-1-78744-607-6 (James Currey ePDF) Cover image: Studying the Qur'ān in a mosque in Cairo, Egypt (kharps/istock) To Sister Khadija and Nanouna Contents List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Note on Transliteration and Calendar xvii List of Abbreviations xviii Introduction: Where have we been and where are we going in the

The Occult in the Islamic World - 2016

This course examines the development and reception of the occult sciences in the Islamic world, with primary attention given to the Islamic tradition but also attending to Judaism and other traditions in conversation with it. Readings will include primary texts as well as secondary scholarship from history and anthropology.

Magic and the Occult in Islam and Beyond | March 2-3, 2017 | Yale University

This two-day symposium at Yale University addresses the place of the occult in Islamic epistemology broadly construed, by bringing together an array of scholars across several disciplines and areas of expertise. As a branch of knowledge, the occult sciences came to occupy a very important and often quite normative role in numerous arenas of religious authority and social praxis, from the court to the madrasa, and beyond. In this two-day symposium, participants will present and discuss papers on a variety of issues that pertain to the theme of occult learning in Islamic history, touching on such topics as: statecraft and astronomical divination, demonology, sorcery, and exorcism, material and visual cultures of the occult, bibliomancy, talismans, and magic bowls, parallels and precedents in the diverse religious milieu of Mesopotamia and beyond, the cultivation of occult learning by the religious elite and its transmission and circulation across religious communities, the epistemic frameworks governing the modern scholarly reception of the occult, and reform and modern adaptations and continuations of pre-modern practices. Sponsored by The Council on Middle East Studies, The Department of Near Eastern Studies & Civilizations, The Department of Religious Studies, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, The Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.