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LA129407
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انگلیسی
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Binding with a Perfect Sufi Master:
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[Article]
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Naqshbandī Defenses of rābiṭa from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
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M. Brett Wilson
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Leiden
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Brill
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This article explores debates surrounding the controversial spiritual exercise of rābiṭa - the binding of the disciple with a Sufi master by envisioning the image of the master in different parts of the body. Despite being criticized as a non-Qurʾanic practice and as a form of idolatry, rābiṭa was made a ritual of prominence among the Khālidī-Naqshbandī suborder which took shape in early nineteenth-century Syria and spread throughout the late Ottoman Empire. Tracing defenses of the practice from Arabic sources in the early nineteenth century to Turkish language treatises in the twentieth century, I argue that the Sufi ādāb manual al-Bahja al-saniyya composed by Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Khānī (1798-1862) established a repertoire of arguments that have been adopted and reused in Turkish language treatises until the present with little variation, revealing a remarkable continuity of apologetics over nearly two centuries. Additionally, the article considers the role of this ritual in defining the nature of master-disciple relationships and establishing hierarchies of Sufi devotion and obedience. This article explores debates surrounding the controversial spiritual exercise of rābiṭa - the binding of the disciple with a Sufi master by envisioning the image of the master in different parts of the body. Despite being criticized as a non-Qurʾanic practice and as a form of idolatry, rābiṭa was made a ritual of prominence among the Khālidī-Naqshbandī suborder which took shape in early nineteenth-century Syria and spread throughout the late Ottoman Empire. Tracing defenses of the practice from Arabic sources in the early nineteenth century to Turkish language treatises in the twentieth century, I argue that the Sufi ādāb manual al-Bahja al-saniyya composed by Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Khānī (1798-1862) established a repertoire of arguments that have been adopted and reused in Turkish language treatises until the present with little variation, revealing a remarkable continuity of apologetics over nearly two centuries. Additionally, the article considers the role of this ritual in defining the nature of master-disciple relationships and establishing hierarchies of Sufi devotion and obedience.
SET
Date of Publication
2020
Physical description
56-78
Title
Die Welt des Islams
Volume Number
60/1
International Standard Serial Number
1570-0607
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Mysticism
Subject Term
Naqshbandī
Subject Term
Ottoman Empire
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Ritual
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Syria
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Turkey
Subject Term
Sufism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
M. Brett Wilson
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10.1163/15700607-00600A02
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