Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality

Vincent J. Cornell is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University, and Editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies. His research interests cover the entire spectrum of Islamic thought from the doctrinal and social history of Sufism to theology and philosophy. Bruce B. Lawrence is Marcus Family Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. His research focuses on contemporary Islam as religious ideology, South Asian Sufism, Islamic spirituality in Afro-Eurasia, and Islamicate cosmopolitanism. He recently published with Wiley Blackwell the manifesto Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit (2021).

• List of Contributors ixGeneral Introduction xiVincent J. Cornell and Bruce B. LawrencePart I Expressive Dimensions of Islamic SpiritualityIntroduction to Part IVincent J. CornellIA The Spirituality of Words and Letters1 The Spirituality of the Qurʾān 23Bruce B. Lawrence2 The Spirituality of Hadith 44Abbas Barzegar3 The Spirituality of Invocations and Litanies in Islam 61Kenneth Lee Honerkamp4 The Many Spirits of the Islamic Past 74Shahzad Bashir Copyrighted Material5 Translating Sainthood in Islamic Hagiography 91Vincent J. CornellIB The Spirituality of Places and Spaces6 The Spiritual Meaning of Mecca, the Ka‘ba, and the Ḥajj 113Gordon D. Newby7 The Spiritual Meaning of Medina 130Daoud Stephen Casewit8 Jerusalem in Islamic Spirituality 147Brannon Wheeler9 The Spirituality of the Sufi Shrine 165Carl W. ErnstIC The Spirituality of People and Human Relations10 The Spiritual Meaning of Muḥammad and the Prophets of Islam 183Ali A. Allawi11 The Spiritual Meaning of Devotion to the Shī‘ī Imams 202Abdulaziz Sachedina12 Spirituality and Gender in Islam 217Sa‘diyya Shaikh13 Spirituality and Social Justice in Islam 234Mustafa Gokhan SahinPart II Performative Dimensions of Islamic SpiritualityIntroduction to Part IIBruce B. LawrenceIIA Devotional Practices in Islam14 The Spirituality of Prayer in Islam 263Hugh Talat Halman15 The Spirituality of Qurʾān Recitation 277Pieternella van Doorn-Harder16 Ascetic Spirituality in Islam 297Rkia Elaroui Cornell17 The Spirituality of the Sufi Path 316William C. ChittickIIB Spirituality in Literature, Poetry, and the Visual Arts18 Narrating Transcendence in the Modern Novel 333miriam cooke19 The Spirituality of Arab Islamic Poetry 352Muhsin al-Musawi20 The Spirituality of Persian Islamic Poetry 372Franklin D. Lewis21 Islamic Spirituality in English Translation 395Michael Beard22 Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts 412Stefan SperlIIC Spirituality in Music, Song, and Cinema23 Spirituality in Art Musics of the Islamic World 435Ali Jihad Racy24 The Spirituality of Qawwali: Lyrics and Ritual in the Sufi Music of South Asia 454Scott Kugle25 One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality 476Negar MottahedehIID Islamic Spirituality in the Anthropocene Age26 Islamic Spirituality and the Internet 497Gary R. Bunt27 The Islamic Spirituality of HipHop 515Michael Muhammad Knight28 Ibn Taymiyya and the Case for a Salafism of Mercy 531Yahya M. MichotIndex 545