Repentance and the Return to God
Tawba in Early Sufism
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2018
272 pages
978-1-4384-6913-3 (ISBN)
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The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.
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Atif Khalil is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and the coeditor (with Mohammed Rustom and Kazuyo Murata) of In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought, by William C. Chittick, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction Part I. The Semantics of Tawba
1. Is Tawba "Repentance"? A Lexical and Semantic Survey
2. The Internal Structure and Semantic Field of Tawba in the Qur'an Part II. Early Sufi Approaches to Tawba
3. Tawba as Interior Conversion
4. The States, Stations and Early Sufi Apothegmata
5. Four Approaches to Tawba
6. Tawba in the Writings of al-Harith al-Muhasibi
7. Tawba in the Nourishment of Hearts of Abu Talib al-Makki
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction Part I. The Semantics of Tawba
1. Is Tawba "Repentance"? A Lexical and Semantic Survey
2. The Internal Structure and Semantic Field of Tawba in the Qur'an Part II. Early Sufi Approaches to Tawba
3. Tawba as Interior Conversion
4. The States, Stations and Early Sufi Apothegmata
5. Four Approaches to Tawba
6. Tawba in the Writings of al-Harith al-Muhasibi
7. Tawba in the Nourishment of Hearts of Abu Talib al-Makki
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
