عنوان

The Social and Theoretical Dimensions of Sainthood in Early Islam: Al-Tirmidhi's Gnoseology and the Foundations of Sufi Social Praxis

شماره

TL48446

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Social and Theoretical Dimensions of Sainthood in Early Islam: Al-Tirmidhi's Gnoseology and the Foundations of Sufi Social Praxis

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Aiyub Palmer

نام ساير پديدآوران

Knysh, Alexander

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Michigan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

373

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Ahbel-Rappe, Sara; Babayan, Kathryn; Eliav, Yaron Z.; Jackson, Sherman A.; Ohlander, Erik S.

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-03975-6

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Studies

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Michigan

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

This dissertation offers new perspectives on al-Tirmidhī's contribution to the Sūfī doctrine of sainthood and to the development of early Islamic mysticism. Included in this study is codicological work that presents al-Tirmidhī's Kitāb al-Hikma for the first time in print. The first chapter introduces al-Tirmidhī's social and political context and how this context played an important factor in shaping al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood. Al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood casts the Sunnī 'ulamā' as the true representatives of Islamic religious authority, as embodied in the saints who are counted as coming from their ranks. Al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood also incorporates aspects of various discourse streams within his learned context. The discourse streams addressed in this study are: Hellenism, early Hanafī/Murji'ī theology and Islamic mysticism. Within Hellenism we find that al-Tirmidhī focuses on Pythagorean wisdom as one aspect of his gnoseology that serves to frame the non-dual quality of saintly knowledge. Al-Tirmidhī's Hanafī theological background leads him to expand sainthood to all Muslims while restricting it in practice to the scholarly class of 'ulamā '. Islamic mysticism is a discourse stream that also informs al-Tirmidhī's gnoseology and doctrine of sainthood through al-Muhasibī's 'asceticism of the soul', an approach adopted by al-Tirmidhī and applied to his process of mystical development. Al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood played a pivotal role in providing a Khurāsānian structure to Islamic mysticism in the later form that Sufism would take. The seal of sainthood and the idea that there will always be a constant presence of saints in the world are aspects of al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood that provide an optimistic alternative to the world outlook of Tradionalists. Ibn Arabī further refines and develops al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood in his Fusūs al-Hikam . Other mystics such as the eponyms of the Shādhilī Tarīqa developed al-Tirmidhī's concept of wisdom as a practical tool for the education of aspirants upon the Sūfī path. This dissertation presents al-Tirmidhī's doctrine of sainthood in light of new methodological approaches and textual research that has important implications for how we understand early Islamic mysticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religion; Philosophy; Social psychology; Near Eastern Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Psychology;Al-tirmidhi;Authority;Islam;Mysticism;Saints;Sufism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Miller, Katherine Joanne Ledbetter

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Knysh, Alexander

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Studies

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Michigan

شماره بازیابی

1728125081; 3722068

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y