The Forgotten Mystic: Ibn Barrajān (d. 536/1141) and the Andalusian Mu 'tabirūn
[Thesis]
Yousef Alexander Casewit
Bowering, Gerhard H.
Yale University
2014
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-59857-5
Ph.D.
Yale University
2014
This dissertation examines the historical and religious context, life, works, qur'ānic hermeneutics, and cosmological teachings of Ibn Barrajān (d. 536/1141), an understudied Andalusī mystic who spent most of his life in Seville and its environs. He was the most prolific, influential, and prominent mystic of the formative period in al-Andalus, as attested to by both his contemporaries and biographers. By highlighting his unique and influential contributions to the Islamic scholarly tradition, this study will hopefully serve as a step toward recharting Andalusī intellectual history by connecting the earliest expressions of mystical thought of Ibn Masarra (d. 319/931) with later writings of Ibn al-'Arabī (d. 638/1240).
Islamic Studies
Social sciences;Almoravids;Andalusia;Ibn Barrajan;Islamic Mysticism;Sufism;al-Ghazali