Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism

Naser Dumairieh, Ph.D. (2018), McGill University, is a researcher in post-classical Islamic philosophy and the relationship between Sufism and theology. He has published critical editions and articles related to the intellectual history of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, including a critical edition of al-Barzanjī’s al-Jādhib al-ghaybī, and another book entitled Sufism in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism is in progress.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: When All Roads Led to the Ḥijāz1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in Its Global and Local Context1 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Global Context2 The Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz in its Local Context3 Conclusion2 Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century1 Educational Institutions in the Ḥijāz in the Seventeenth Century2 Rational Sciences in the Ḥijāz3 Isnād as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century Ḥijāz4 How the Rational Sciences Reached the Ḥijāz5 Conclusion3 Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī’s Life, Education, Teachers, and Students1 Al-Kūrānī’s Life2 Al-Kūrānī’s Education3 Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers4 Al-Kūrānī’s Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time5 Al-Kūrānī’s Students6 Al-Kūrānī’s Affiliation to Sufi Orders7 Conclusion4 Al-Kūrānī’s Works1 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Examined)2 Al-Kūrānī’s Works (Inaccessible)3 Works Misattributed to al-Kūrānī4 Conclusion5 Al-Kūrānī’s Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought1 God is Absolute Existence (al-wujūd al-muṭlaq or al-wujūd al-maḥḍ)2 God’s Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (taʾwīl)3 God’s Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms4 Nafs al-amr in al-Kūrānī’s Thought5 Ashʿarites and Mental Existence6 Realities: Uncreated Nonexistent Quiddities7 God’s Knowledge of Particulars8 Creation9 Unity and Multiplicity10 Destiny and Predetermination11 Kasb: Free Will and Predestination12 The Unity of the Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)13 Waḥdat al-Wujūd14 Conclusion6 Al-Kūrānī’s Other Theological and Sufi Thought1 The Faith of Pharaoh2 The Precedence of God’s Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fanāʾ al-nār)3 Satanic Verses4 Preference for the Reality of the Kaʿba or for the Muḥammadan Reality5 God’s Speech (kalām Allāh)6 ConclusionConclusionAppendix 1: Al-Kūrānī’s Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the TextAppendix 2: Al-Kūrānī’s Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the TextAppendix 3: Al-Kūrānī’s Works Ordered AlphabeticallyBibliographyIndex