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The notion of adab is at the heart of Arab-Islamic culture. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilization, nourished by Greek and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings: good behavior, knowledge of manners, etiquette, rules and belles-lettres and finally, literature. This collection of articles tries to explore how the formulations and reformulations of adab during the first centuries of Islam engage with the crucial period of the first great spiritual masters, exploring the importance of normativity, but also of transgression, in order to define the rules themselves. Assuming that adab is ethics, the articles analyse the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until the modernity.
Contributors are: Alberto F. Ambrosio, Nelly Amri, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Ralf Elger, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Maria Chiara Giorda, Denis Gril, Paul L. Heck, Nathan Hofer, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Annabel Keeler, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Erik S. Ohlander, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Lloyd Ridgeon, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Florian Sobieroj, Renaud Soler, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Mikko Viitamäki.
Contributors are: Alberto F. Ambrosio, Nelly Amri, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Ralf Elger, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Maria Chiara Giorda, Denis Gril, Paul L. Heck, Nathan Hofer, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Annabel Keeler, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Erik S. Ohlander, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Lloyd Ridgeon, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Florian Sobieroj, Renaud Soler, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Mikko Viitamäki.
Price: $301.00
Pages: 686
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies
Publication Date:
17 November 2016
ISBN: 9789004335097
Format: Hardcover
"Ethics and Spirituality in Islam will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Islam, and should find its place in every major research library."
Atif Khalil in: Journal of Islamic Ethics, 4, 2020. "Cet ouvrage d’une grande richesse constitue un apport précieux à la compréhension de l’histoire du soufisme, et permet d’envisager les grandes étapes de cette histoire sous l’angle de l’adab jusqu’à l’époque la plus récente. (...) La littérature soufie est à tel point traversée par cette notion d’adab que les auteurs de l’introduction, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi, concluent que « tenter l’histoire de l’adab soufi revient à écrire l’histoire du soufisme lui-même. » ... Il s’agit non seulement d’une contribution importante à l’historiographie du soufisme, mais également à l’histoire de la civilisation islamique".
Sophie Tyser in: BCAI 32, 2018
Atif Khalil in: Journal of Islamic Ethics, 4, 2020. "Cet ouvrage d’une grande richesse constitue un apport précieux à la compréhension de l’histoire du soufisme, et permet d’envisager les grandes étapes de cette histoire sous l’angle de l’adab jusqu’à l’époque la plus récente. (...) La littérature soufie est à tel point traversée par cette notion d’adab que les auteurs de l’introduction, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi, concluent que « tenter l’histoire de l’adab soufi revient à écrire l’histoire du soufisme lui-même. » ... Il s’agit non seulement d’une contribution importante à l’historiographie du soufisme, mais également à l’histoire de la civilisation islamique".
Sophie Tyser in: BCAI 32, 2018
Francesco Chiabotti is research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology of the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Aix-Marseille (2014). His research focuses on the life and the works of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 1072).
Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes. She has published numerous books and articles on Sufism and Persian mystical literature.
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of History of Modern Islam at the Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales, Paris, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published several books on Sufism and popular Islam, especially in Egypt.
Luca Patrizi, Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille and Naples Universities, is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin and post-doc Labex at the University of Paris. His main areas of research are Religious and Islamic Studies, and Sufism.
Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes. She has published numerous books and articles on Sufism and Persian mystical literature.
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of History of Modern Islam at the Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales, Paris, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published several books on Sufism and popular Islam, especially in Egypt.
Luca Patrizi, Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille and Naples Universities, is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin and post-doc Labex at the University of Paris. His main areas of research are Religious and Islamic Studies, and Sufism.