Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Origins (632-650)
Ikhwan Al Saffa
Hthaifa Ibn Al Yaman (d. 657)
Character
Austirity
Humility
Ascetism (640-730)
Goal
People
From mortification to
psychology
Path
Brotherhood
Invocation
Spiritual State
Chararteristics
Sufi Legacy
Enlightenment
Kobriyah
Nimatullahia
East
Charteristics
Naqshabandiyah
Rifaiyyah
Shadilliyah
Mystical Language
Characteristics
Mysticism (750-1110)
West
Qadiriyyah
Fana: Annihilation
Ecstatic Utterances
Al Hallaj
Ba Yazid Al Bastami (d. 875)
Non-Devotional
Characteristics
Poetry [2]
Ibn Al Arabi (1200) [1]
People
People
Iman (Belief:Safe)
Ihsan Perfection)
Commanding Self
Conscious Self
Khalwa: Isolation
Satisfied
Self
Miscellaneous
Ilm:Knowledge
Amal:Actions
Sidq:Sincerity
Triqqah: Path
Methodology
Knowing
Haqiqah: Rality
Unity Of Existence
Annihilation
Kashf: Enlightenment
Sufism
Kalam
Philosophy
AL BAQARA
Al Junayd
Al Hallaj
Annihilation By Examples
Taqwa: Piety
Sobriety
Paradox and biwelderment
Intoxication
QAAF
Perplexity
Annihilation
AL HADEED
Living the Shahada
Start as a stone
Be shuttered by the divine light of the
divine reality you witness
Self transformation
Biography
AL JUNAYD
Mithaq: Covenant
Fana: Annihilation/Obliteration
Biography
After his death his mutilated body was laid to rest in Karkh
Esoteric Character
AL HALLAJ
Diwan
The Martyrdom of al-Hallaj, Baghdad 17th
century Indian painting (Allahabad,
1017a) from Diwan, by Amir Najm-ad-din
Dihlavi (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore)
Diwan Al Hallaj
Example A
Tawassin
Example B
568/1172
His family
Settles in
Seville
568/1172
His family
Settles in
Seville
Chronology Of Ibn Al
Arabi's Life
Writes Al Fusus 627/1229
East
Steady State/static
God is being
Existence/Non Existence
Dynamic
Ontology
New Creation
Infinite possibilities
Perpetual Renewal
To resolve ambiguity
Cosmic Imagination
Isthmus
Revelation
Law
Theology
Knowledge
Reason
Gnosticism
Epistemology
Reflection
Ibn Al Arabi's
Thesis: Oneness Of
Being
Faith
Rational interpretation
Divine
Hermeneutics
Ontological: Existence
Cognitive: Knowledge
Acquiring Knowledge
Unveiling
Following Authority
78 Scholars of Hadith
He Gets Selected
88 Scholars of Fiqh
126 Scholars of the Quran
Literature
Philosophy
Religious disciplines
Literature
He trained extensively
Kalaam
Steady State/static
God is being
Existence/Non Existence
Dynamic
Ontology
New Creation
Infinite possibilities
Perpetual Renewal
To resolve ambiguity
Cosmic Imagination
Isthmus
Revelation
Law
Theology
Knowledge
Reason
Gnosticism
Epistemology
Reflection
Ibn Al Arabi's
Thesis: Oneness Of
Being
Faith
Rational interpretation
Divine
Hermeneutics
Ontological: Existence
Cognitive: Knowledge
Acquiring Knowledge
Unveiling
Following Authority
Use of Sacred Text and Tradition and rejection of Kalam and Philosophy
Method
Knowledge acquired by rational consideration and based upon revelation (known as Al Ilm Al
Sharii) -> leads to the interpretation of the scared text with reason playing an important role
Empirical Knowledge (known as Ilm Al Ahwal) -> sweetness of honey or bitterness of
aloes -> leads to the appreciation of (Halawat Al Iman, "the sweetness of faith")
Epistemology
Gnosis (AL Maarifa) leads to Unveiling (Al Kashf) which in turn leads to Experiencing the divine reality (Al Haqq)
Gnosis (AL Maarifa) also known as the knowledge of mysteries. Reserved to do prophets,
messengers and saints.
Theology
Al Nur 39
He builds on acceptable ideas of his time: know the difference
between quiddity and existence (mahiya and wujud).
Ontology
Thesis
Akbarian Work
Critique
Existent entities (a'yan mayjuda) come to be found only when Allah wills it
If things cannot exist as phenomena, which means they cannot be found, but they can still
have a quiddity and be manifest in Imagination (This will be important as we will see shortly)
Relativism: each entity receiving the will differs from all others this leads to infinite and perpetual disclosures
Imagination or Vision (Al Khayal) leads to a tool of experiential Sufism to exist in dimensions outside the world surrounding
us. Connects many worlds theocosm, macrocosm and microcosm. Removes the temporal limitations of this world!
Formulation of the doctrine of Wilaya, its nature and function, its relation to prophetic inheritance. He also formalized a
typology. Review the work of Michael Chodkiewicz, titled: Seal of the saints, 1993, The Islamic texts society
Supporters
Michel Vaslan
Clement Huart: Fantaisie desordonnee
Arberry: Confused mental universe,
incoherent technical vocabulary
Rom Laudau: Contradictions and ambiguities
can lead the reader to depression
Opponents
Massignon
Role of History of religions
Role of Anthropology
Methodology
My own
Intellectual chauvinism
Not crediting the power of Suluk and Maarifa
Not denouncing exaggerations around certain
suluki qualities such as reliance (Tawakul)
Corporal Asceticism
Mental Asceticism
Could he have been a mystic by
excellence primarily interested in he
reform of Sufism? Evidence suggests that
it is a viable option
Is it possible that he was not unanimously
celebrated as a reformer? Here too there
is evidence suggesting that the number of
voices opposed to him was significant
and he cannot be viewed as the renewer
of the millennium as much as Ibn AL
Arabi cannot be viewed as the seal of
saints!
Conclusion
Ahmad Sirhindi
Deconstruction
Education
Wujudiyat: the metaphysics of existence
Reconciliation
Wholistic Approach
Non Violence
Upbringing
Personal Preparation
Abdiyat: Servitude
Mystical training
Political training
Learned students
Network of disciples
Political Reform
Mysticism
Writings
Power base
Epistles
Private letters to people of influence
Build relationships with imperial court scholars
Build relationships with imperial court nobles
Corporal Asceticism
Mental Asceticism
Origins
Iranian Sufism
Similarities
Differences
Tafseer
Tafheem
Introduction
Conclusion
The Mystical Path In Rumi's View