Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation

Mohammed Rustom, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, is Professor of Islamic Thought at Carleton University and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. His most recent book is entitled Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt (SUNY Press, 2023).

"This massive book is a fitting tribute to William Chittick and Sachiko Murata, and the papers contained therein are all written in the best traditions of modern, academic, critical textual, and philological scholarship." – Reviewer A"The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." – Reviewer B"In summary, this volume’s colorful chapters will easily satisfy the tastes of a wide range of scholars of religion and general readers of classical literature. In addition, Mohammed Rustom has succeeded in drawing together an exceptional collection of articles that is a treasure for the disciplines of Islamic studies and comparative studies. General readers and experts in the field will equally enjoy this collection of essays paying homage to Professors Chittick and Murata, and their half-century-long achievements in the humanities and social sciences." – Ashkan Bahrani, Monash University, in: JMIAS 75 (2024)

• Foreword by Seyyed Hossein NasrPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on the ContributorsBooks by William C. Chittick and Sachiko MurataPart 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts1 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in PersianMasoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom2 The Life of the Breath of Life in RūmīKazuyo Murata3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of BīdilAli Karjoo-Ravary4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit LightShankar Nair5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn’s Makhzan-i ʿirfānMaria Massi DakakePart 2 The Akbarian Tradition6 Some Notes on Ibn ʿArabī’s Correlative ProphetologyGregory Vandamme7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)Alireza Pharaa8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī’s NafaḥātJustin Cancelliere9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʿArabī’s Lettrist CosmogonyMatthew Melvin-Koushki10 Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine LightMarlene DuBois11 Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God’s Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)Naser Dumairieh12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. SālimOmar Edaibat13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa’s Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya)Oludamini OgunnaikePart 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʿili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i KhusrawKhalil Andani15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maʿād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6–7Davlat Dadikhuda16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi’s Ottoman Turkish Gardens of PeoniesRosabel Ansari17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of SelfhoodMuhammad U. Faruque18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate ContextSayeh Meisami19 Asad Allāh Qazwīnī’s Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqaCyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza AsghariPart 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural TranslationAmer Latif21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge TransmissionMukhtar H. Ali22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through NarrativeLaury Silvers23 The Tao of maʿrifa: Adam’s Encounter with Hell in ParadiseMohammed Mehdi Ali24 A Supplication for God’s Mercy on the Day of ʿArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʿī al-Muʾayyad al-ShīrāzīTahera Qutbuddin25 Made in God’s Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-KarkariYousef Casewit26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, PhilosopherAtif KhalilIndex of Names and Terms