عنوان

Binding with a Perfect Sufi Master:

شماره

LA129407

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Binding with a Perfect Sufi Master:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Naqshbandī Defenses of rābiṭa from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

نام نخستين پديدآور

M. Brett Wilson

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

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.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

56-78

عنوان

Die Welt des Islams

شماره جلد

60/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0607

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mysticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Naqshbandī

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ottoman Empire

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ritual

اصطلاح موضوعی

Syria

اصطلاح موضوعی

Turkey

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sufism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

M. Brett Wilson

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700607-00600A02

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y