Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology
December 23, 2019 2023-10-08 8:35Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology
‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and His Network of Scholarship (Studies and Texts)
Edited By: Lejla Demiri and Samuela Pagani
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck Verlag (January 1, 2019)
Series: Sapientia Islamica: Studies in Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism
The present volume is dedicated to the study of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641–1731), an outstanding religious scholar, sufi thinker and man of letters from 17th-18th-century Ottoman Syria. With its focus on a careful examination of Nābulusī’s multifaceted and enriching textual corpus, the present volume offers an in-depth analysis of both his thought and his intellectual milieu.
The essays presented here reflect the wide spectrum of Nābulusī’s interests, from scriptural exegesis to theology, from jurisprudence to mysticism, from philosophy to poetry, ethics and aesthetics. Bringing together expertise in Islamic mysticism, theology and jurisprudence, Ottoman studies, and the social and cultural history of the Middle East, it explores Nābulusī’s work and persona. The studies included in Part I of this volume remind us that Nābulusī’s legacy has many surprises in store for us, and Part II is dedicated to critical editions of three of Nābulusī’s short, but nevertheless important, treatises.
This volume is intended to be the first of many further publications that would bring together the expertise of numerous Nābulusī scholars across disciplines. The interdisciplinary character of the present volume contributes to a better appreciation of Nābulusī’s multifaceted impact on the diversified intellectual and religious history of the 17th-18th-century world of Islam, described until recently as a time of ‘stagnation’ and ‘decline’.
About Authors
Lejla Demiri Born 1975; 2008 PhD from the University of Cambridge; 2007–10 post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge; 2010–12 at the Free University of Berlin; currently Professor of Islamic Doctrine at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen (Germany).
Samuela Pagani Born 1965; 2000 PhD in Islamic studies from the Istituto Orientale in Naples; taught Islamic studies and Arabic literature at La Sapienza (Rome) and L’Orientale (Naples) Universities; currently Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)
Source: Mohr Siebeck Verlag
