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The Comfort of the Mystics

A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism

By: Gerhard Böwering,Bilal Orfali

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The Comfort of the Mystics

A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism

By: Gerhard Böwering,Bilal Orfali

This critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077), is based on a very old manuscript preserved in Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya of Cairo, Egypt and copied in 459/1067. It is introduced by a detailed analytical study of the author and his work. Salwat al-ʿārifīn forms an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran. This crucial Arabic text, published for the first time, is especially valuable because of its great philological accuracy and sound textual tradition. It represents an essential source for the intellectual history of Islam during the middle of the 4th/10th to the middle of the 5th/11th century.

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The Anthologist’s Art

Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

By: Bilal Orfali

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Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

By: Bilal Orfali

Why did premodern authors in the Arabic-Islamic culture compile literary anthologies, and why were these works remarkably popular? How can an anthology that consists of reproduced material be original and creative, and serve various literary and political ends? How did anthologists select their material, then record and arrange it? This book examines the life and works of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (350–429/961–1039), an eminent anthologist from Nīshāpūr, paying special attention to his magnum opus, Yatīmat al-dahr (The Unique Pearl), and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatīma (The Completion of the Yatīma). This book is a direct window on to an anthologist’s workshop in the second half of the fourth/tenth century. It examines the methodological consciousness expressed in Thaʿālibī’s selection and arrangement, and his sophisticated system of internal references and cross-references to other works; how he selected from his contemporaries’ oeuvres; how he sought, recorded, memorized, misplaced, and sometimes lost or forgot his selections; how he scrutinized the authenticity of material, accepting, questioning, or rejecting its attribution; and the errors and inconsistencies that resulted from this process.

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900431735X

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Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

By: Bilal Orfali,Ramzi Baalbaki

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Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

By: Bilal Orfali,Ramzi Baalbaki

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words is the first scholarly edition of K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī. The work is introduced by an analytical study.

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9004517057

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The Anthologist’s Art

Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

By: Bilal Orfali

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The Comfort of the Mystics

The Comfort of the Mystics

The Anthologist’s Art

The Anthologist’s Art

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

The Anthologist’s Art

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