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The Sufi and the friar : a mystical encounter of two men of God in the abode of Islam / Minlib Dallh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781438466194
  • 1438466196
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sufi and the friar.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/7 23
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  • BX4705.B26515 D35 2017
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Style; Introduction; I. The Abode of Islam (dār al Islam); II. The Religious Other in the Postmodern World; Chapter 1 Serge de Beaurecueil, OP (1917-2005): A Life Curve; I.A Wounded Privilege; 1. Negotiating an Aristocratic Childhood; 2. An Unexpected Call to a Life as a Dominican Friar; II. Le Saulchoir: A Rebirth of Dominican Scholarship; 1. A Special School of Theology and History; 2. Summoned to Islamic Studies by M.D. Chenu; III. The French Dominican Friars in Cairo; 1. The Vision of Biblical Scholar M.J. Lagrange.
2. A. Jaussen: The Builder of a Dominican InstituteIV. At the IDEO; 1. The Choice of Abdullah Ancārī; 2. The Studious Years of a Burgeoning Orientalist; Chapter 2 De Beaurecueil: Heeding Ancārī's Call; I.A Journey to Afghanistan, a Promised Land; 1. The Road to Kabul; 2. In the Land of Ancārī; II. Born Under the Ghaznavi Rule (977-1186); III. Ancārī: A Controversial Sufi Master (or Shaykh); 1. Formative Years in Herat (1006-1033); 2. Maturity and Study Travels to Nīshāpūr; 2.1. Hardship and Triumph (1042-1063); 2.2. The End Game (1080-89).
Chapter 3 De Beaurecueil: A Premier Scholar of Ancārī's WorksI. The Corpus Attributed to Ancārī; 1. Questions of Authenticity; 2. Two Spiritual Treatises: The Hundred Fields and The Stages of the Wayfarers; II. The Munājāt or Cris du coeur; 1. Textual History; 2. Literary and Spiritual Acumen; Chapter 4 De Beaurecueil's Pastoral Mysticism in Kabul; I. In the Footsteps of Jesus: Charles de Foucauld and de Beaurecueil; 1. Religious Life as a Prophetic Life Form; 2. Imitating the Hidden Life of Jesus of Nazareth; II. A Priest of Non-Christians; 1. A Catholic Priest in Kabul.
2. A Lonely Pastor and Celebrant3. We Share Bread and Salt; III. My Children of Kabul; 1. At the House of Abraham; 2. These Little Ones Are My Icons; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.
Summary: An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master. This book explores the profound spiritual encounter between Serge de Beaurecueil (1917-2005), a twentieth-century French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-century Ḥanbalī Sufi master Khwāja 'Abdullāh Anṣārī of Herāt (1006-1089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the foremost expert on the life and thought of Anṣārī. His mystical conversation and scholarly engagement with Anṣārī, his experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the religious other. Minlib Dallh is a Fellow in the Study of Love in Religion at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Style; Introduction; I. The Abode of Islam (dār al Islam); II. The Religious Other in the Postmodern World; Chapter 1 Serge de Beaurecueil, OP (1917-2005): A Life Curve; I.A Wounded Privilege; 1. Negotiating an Aristocratic Childhood; 2. An Unexpected Call to a Life as a Dominican Friar; II. Le Saulchoir: A Rebirth of Dominican Scholarship; 1. A Special School of Theology and History; 2. Summoned to Islamic Studies by M.D. Chenu; III. The French Dominican Friars in Cairo; 1. The Vision of Biblical Scholar M.J. Lagrange.

2. A. Jaussen: The Builder of a Dominican InstituteIV. At the IDEO; 1. The Choice of Abdullah Ancārī; 2. The Studious Years of a Burgeoning Orientalist; Chapter 2 De Beaurecueil: Heeding Ancārī's Call; I.A Journey to Afghanistan, a Promised Land; 1. The Road to Kabul; 2. In the Land of Ancārī; II. Born Under the Ghaznavi Rule (977-1186); III. Ancārī: A Controversial Sufi Master (or Shaykh); 1. Formative Years in Herat (1006-1033); 2. Maturity and Study Travels to Nīshāpūr; 2.1. Hardship and Triumph (1042-1063); 2.2. The End Game (1080-89).

Chapter 3 De Beaurecueil: A Premier Scholar of Ancārī's WorksI. The Corpus Attributed to Ancārī; 1. Questions of Authenticity; 2. Two Spiritual Treatises: The Hundred Fields and The Stages of the Wayfarers; II. The Munājāt or Cris du coeur; 1. Textual History; 2. Literary and Spiritual Acumen; Chapter 4 De Beaurecueil's Pastoral Mysticism in Kabul; I. In the Footsteps of Jesus: Charles de Foucauld and de Beaurecueil; 1. Religious Life as a Prophetic Life Form; 2. Imitating the Hidden Life of Jesus of Nazareth; II. A Priest of Non-Christians; 1. A Catholic Priest in Kabul.

2. A Lonely Pastor and Celebrant3. We Share Bread and Salt; III. My Children of Kabul; 1. At the House of Abraham; 2. These Little Ones Are My Icons; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2017).

An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master. This book explores the profound spiritual encounter between Serge de Beaurecueil (1917-2005), a twentieth-century French Dominican friar and Christian mystic, and the eleventh-century Ḥanbalī Sufi master Khwāja 'Abdullāh Anṣārī of Herāt (1006-1089). De Beaurecueil lived much of his Christian discipleship in Cairo and Afghanistan, where he became the foremost expert on the life and thought of Anṣārī. His mystical conversation and scholarly engagement with Anṣārī, his experience of Islamic hospitality, and the transformation of his own practical spirituality or praxis mystica through his experience of dwelling in the abode of Islam provide us with not only a magnificent and luminous meditation on the hidden and abiding presence of God among Muslims but also a contemplation on the quandary of genuine engagement with and openness to the religious other. Minlib Dallh is a Fellow in the Study of Love in Religion at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford.