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A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sulami
S. Z. Chowdhury
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Hardback. This study demonstrates that al-Sulami was an accomplished mystic. It outlines his life and times and surveys in full all his works as far as they can be identified. Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: HRHX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 653.
Abu cAbd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami (d.412/1021) lived in the 3rd and 4th century AH / 9th and 10th century CE. He was born in the city of Nishapur, one of the most renowned cities in the Islamic world. He was part of a line of earlier Sufi figures who attempted to defend the cardinal tenets of Sufism from accusations of heresy. However al-Sulami's surpassed his predecessors by amassing a corpus of antecedent mystical dicta from the architects of Islamic mysticism and substantiating them with transmission channels (isnad) or grounding them in a core teaching of the Prophet ... Read more
Abu cAbd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami (d.412/1021) lived in the 3rd and 4th century AH / 9th and 10th century CE. He was born in the city of Nishapur, one of the most renowned cities in the Islamic world. He was part of a line of earlier Sufi figures who attempted to defend the cardinal tenets of Sufism from accusations of heresy. However al-Sulami's surpassed his predecessors by amassing a corpus of antecedent mystical dicta from the architects of Islamic mysticism and substantiating them with transmission channels (isnad) or grounding them in a core teaching of the Prophet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781795224
SKU
V9781781795224
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About S. Z. Chowdhury
S.Z. Chowdhury, PhD is an examiner and school teacher in History, World Religions as well as Theory of Knowledge and his research areas include Metaphysics, Sufism, Qur'anic Studies and Islamic Law. He lives and works in London.
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