Visualizing Sufism: Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century) (Islamicate Intellectual History: Studies and Texts in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods, 10)

Martini, Giovanni Maria

ISBN 10: 9004516085 / ISBN 13: 9789004516083

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visualizing Sufism: Studies on Graphic Representations in Sufi Literature (13th to 16th Century) (Islamicate Intellectual History: Studies and Texts in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods, 10)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004516085
• ISBN 13: 9789004516083
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Visualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticism―Ibn al-ʿArabī, Aḥmad al-Būnī, Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh, al-Shaʿrānī―, and in intellectual networks―Ḥurūfiyya and Bektashiyya, Shīrīn Maghribī and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history.

Contributors
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.

About the Author

Giovanni Maria Martini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Naples L’Orientale, is a research fellow at that university. His primary areas of interest are the history of Sufism, the history of the occult sciences in the Islamicate world, and Qurʾanic Studies.

Contributors
Elizabeth Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.