1st Edition
Awhad al-Din Kirmani and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze
By Lloyd Ridgeon
Copyright 2018
300 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
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Routledge
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Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238) was one of the greatest and most colourful Persian Sufis of the medieval period; he was celebrated in his own lifetime by a large number of like-minded followers and other Sufi masters. And yet his form of Sufism was the subject of much discussion within the Islamic world, as it elicited responses ranging from praise and commendation to reproach and contempt for his... Read more
Introduction Part I 1. Persianate Sufism in the Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries 2. The Rise of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī 3. The Fall of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī 4. Friend or Foe? Ibn Jawzī’s Criticisms of shāhid bāzī assessed through Kirmānī’s hagiography Conclusion Part II The Virtues of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī Notes to the Anecdotes
Biography
Lloyd Ridgeon specialises in Sufism, particularly the medieval Persian Sufi tradition. His 1996 PhD on the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi, ʿAzīz Nasafī has been published in the Sufi Series, as have his monographs on Aḥmad Kasravī and on Javānmardī. He is the Editor of IRAN, and also the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
