Sanctity and mysticism in medieval Egypt : the Wafaʼ Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn ʻArabi

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Label

Sanctity and mysticism in medieval Egypt : the Wafaʼ Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn ʻArabi

Title remainder

the Wafaʼ Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn ʻArabi

Statement of responsibility

Richard J.A. McGregor

Creator

• McGregor, Richard J. A

Subject

• Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
• Muslim saints -- Egypt -- History
• Sufism -- Egypt -- History
• Wafā, Muḥammad, 1302 or 1303-1363

Language

eng

Summary

"Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muhammad Wafa' and his son 'Ali, this book shows how the Islamic idea of sainthood developed in the medieval period. Although without a church to canonize its "saints," the Islamic tradition nevertheless debated and developed a variety of ideas concerning miracles, sanctity, saintly intermediaries, and pious role models. In the writings of the Wafa's, a complete mystical worldview unfolds, one with a distinct doctrine of sainthood and a novel understanding of the apocalypse. Using almost entirely unedited manuscript sources, author Richard J. A. McGregor shows in detail how Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa' drew on earlier philosophical and gnostic currents to construct their own mystical theories and notes their debt to the Sufi order of the Shadhiliyya, the mystic al-Tirmidhi, and the great Sufi thinker Ibn 'Arabi. Notably, although located firmly within the Sunni tradition, the Wafa's felt free to draw on Shi'ite ideas for the construction of their own theory of the final great saint."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• SUNY series in Islam

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

297.4/0962

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BP188.8.E3

LC item number

M34 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

SUNY series in Islam