Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation
Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Published on 22. December 2022
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Hardback
586 pages
978-90-04-52902-1 (ISBN)
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Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically sound and analytically rigorous expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese texts in these disciplines, demonstrating just how important careful reading and responsible translation methods are to the study of pre-modern worldviews.
Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.
Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.
Reviews / Votes
"This massive book is a fitting tribute to William Chittick and Sachiko Murata, and the papers contained therein are all written in the best traditions of modern, academic, critical textual, and philological scholarship." - Reviewer A"The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." - Reviewer B
"In summary, this volume's colorful chapters will easily satisfy the tastes of a wide range of scholars of religion and general readers
of classical literature. In addition, Mohammed Rustom has succeeded in drawing together an exceptional collection of articles that is a treasure for the disciplines of Islamic studies and comparative studies. General readers and experts in the field will equally enjoy this collection of essays paying homage to Professors Chittick and Murata, and their half-century-long achievements in the humanities and social sciences." - Ashkan Bahrani, Monash University, in: JMIAS 75 (2024)
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XXVIII (28), 558 pp. (totaal 586 pp.)
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
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978-90-04-52902-1 (9789004529021)
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Mohammed Rustom, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, is Professor of Islamic Thought at Carleton University and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His most recent book is entitled Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ?Ayn al-Qu?at (SUNY Press, 2023).
Content
Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts
1 ?Ayn al-Qu?at's Tamhidat: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian
?Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom
2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rumi
?Kazuyo Murata
3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bidil
?Ali Karjoo-Ravary
4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light
?Shankar Nair
5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nu?rat Amin's Makhzan-i ?irfan
?Maria Massi Dakake
Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition
6 Some Notes on Ibn ?Arabi's Correlative Prophetology
?Gregory Vandamme
7 Beautiful-Doing (i?san) as the Station of No Station (maqam la maqam) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil)
?Alireza Pharaa
8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qunawi's Nafa?at
?Justin Cancelliere
9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ?Arabi's Lettrist Cosmogony
?Matthew Melvin-Koushki
10 Jami and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light
?Marlene DuBois
11 Al-Qushashi and al-Kurani on the Unity of God's Attributes (wa?dat al-?ifat)
?Naser Dumairieh
12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abu Bakr b. Salim
?Omar Edaibat
13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Man?uma lil-i??ila? al-?ufiyya)
?Oludamini Ogunnaike
Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology
14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Isma?ili Hermeneutics of ?alat according to al-Sijistani and Na?ir-i Khusraw
?Khalil Andani
15 The Necessity of the Return (al-ma?ad): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in A??awiyya 6-7
?Davlat Dadikhuda
16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi's Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies
?Rosabel Ansari
17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shah Wali Allah and the End of Selfhood
?Muhammad U. Faruque
18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context
?Sayeh Meisami
19 Asad Allah Qazwini's Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitab-i Walayat-i mu?laqa
?Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari
Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation
20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation
?Amer Latif
21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission
?Mukhtar H. Ali
22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative
?Laury Silvers
23 The Tao of ma?rifa: Adam's Encounter with Hell in Paradise
?Mohammed Mehdi Ali
24 A Supplication for God's Mercy on the Day of ?Arafa by the Fatimid Chief da?i al-Mu?ayyad al-Shirazi
?Tahera Qutbuddin
25 Made in God's Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Surat al-Insan (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari
?Yousef Casewit
26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher
?Atif Khalil
Index of Names and Terms
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata
Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts
1 ?Ayn al-Qu?at's Tamhidat: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian
?Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom
2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rumi
?Kazuyo Murata
3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bidil
?Ali Karjoo-Ravary
4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light
?Shankar Nair
5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nu?rat Amin's Makhzan-i ?irfan
?Maria Massi Dakake
Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition
6 Some Notes on Ibn ?Arabi's Correlative Prophetology
?Gregory Vandamme
7 Beautiful-Doing (i?san) as the Station of No Station (maqam la maqam) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insan al-kamil)
?Alireza Pharaa
8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qunawi's Nafa?at
?Justin Cancelliere
9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ?Arabi's Lettrist Cosmogony
?Matthew Melvin-Koushki
10 Jami and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light
?Marlene DuBois
11 Al-Qushashi and al-Kurani on the Unity of God's Attributes (wa?dat al-?ifat)
?Naser Dumairieh
12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abu Bakr b. Salim
?Omar Edaibat
13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa's Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Man?uma lil-i??ila? al-?ufiyya)
?Oludamini Ogunnaike
Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology
14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Isma?ili Hermeneutics of ?alat according to al-Sijistani and Na?ir-i Khusraw
?Khalil Andani
15 The Necessity of the Return (al-ma?ad): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in A??awiyya 6-7
?Davlat Dadikhuda
16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi's Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies
?Rosabel Ansari
17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shah Wali Allah and the End of Selfhood
?Muhammad U. Faruque
18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context
?Sayeh Meisami
19 Asad Allah Qazwini's Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitab-i Walayat-i mu?laqa
?Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari
Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation
20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation
?Amer Latif
21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission
?Mukhtar H. Ali
22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative
?Laury Silvers
23 The Tao of ma?rifa: Adam's Encounter with Hell in Paradise
?Mohammed Mehdi Ali
24 A Supplication for God's Mercy on the Day of ?Arafa by the Fatimid Chief da?i al-Mu?ayyad al-Shirazi
?Tahera Qutbuddin
25 Made in God's Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Surat al-Insan (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari
?Yousef Casewit
26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher
?Atif Khalil
Index of Names and Terms