TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akkach,Samer
AU  - Nābulusī,ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl
TI  - Letters of a Sufi scholar: the correspondence of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) 
T2  - Islamic history and civilization,
SN  - 9789047424338
AV  - BP80.N23 A643 2010eb
U1  - 297.4092 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl,
KW  - Sufis
KW  - Syria
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Soufis
KW  - Syrie
KW  - Damas
KW  - Correspondance
KW  - Savants musulmans
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - Sufi
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Personal correspondence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: ʻAbd al-Ghanī and the culture of correspondence -- The intellectual milieu -- The letters of the Wasā'il -- List and description -- Places, towns, and correspondents -- Map of the Eastern Ottoman Provinces -- Content and significance -- On understanding Islam: letter 1 -- On struggle (jihād): letter 3 -- On causality: letter 4 -- On solitude: letters 6 and 10 -- On quick-passing thoughts (khawāṭir): letter 14 -- On smoking: letter 25 -- On cosmogony and the unity of being: letters 61 and 62 -- On piety, spirituality, and ethics: all letters
N2  - For the first time, this book presents the original Arabic texts of a ~Abd al-GhanA al-NAbulusAa (TM)s letters, along with selected translations and fresh insights into the culture of correspondence, postal history, and main theological debates in the early modern period of Islam
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ER  -