Bāyazīd: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abū Yazīd al-Basṭāmī (d. ca. 234/848)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68048-7 (ISBN)
Abū Yazīd al-Basṭāmī (d. ca 234/848), popularly known as “Bāyazīd”, remains one of the most celebrated yet controversial figures in the history of Islamic mysticism. This in-depth study of his life and teachings is based on the earliest available sources. The book sets out in detail what is known of Bāyazīd’s family, his education, his disciples and associates. It explores the distinctive rhetoric that has made some of his sayings so memorable, and shows how his mode of expression adds a sense of urgency, often drama, to quite conventional doctrines of Sufism.
Through the varied corpus of his sayings, this study traces Bāyazīd’s teachings concerning many aspects of the mystical path, as well as his reflections on God, the Prophet, heaven and hell. Having considered his role as spiritual master, his favourable view of women and his place in the wider community, the study then turns to the controversial side of Bāyazīd: his apparently blasphemous utterances, and his so-called miʿrāj. The book goes on to explore how the two seemingly contradictory sides to Bāyazīd might be reconciled, and finally, provides a brief survey of the extent of his influence on later Sufism and its literature.
Annabel Keeler is an Affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. She works in the field of Sufi exegesis as well as the formative period of Islamic mysticism. Her published works include: Sufi Hermeneutics: The Qur’an Commentary of Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī, The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qurʾan, and a translation of Tafsīr al-Tustarī.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction
Part1 Bāyazīd’s Life and His Speech
1 Bāyazīd’s Life and his Teachers
1 Family Background in Basṭām
2 Bāyazīd’s Education and his Teachers
3 Bāyazīd as Spiritual Master in Basṭām: Veneration and Censure
2 Bāyazīd’s Disciples and Associates
1 Bāyazīd’s Close Disciples
2 Other Associates of Bāyazīd
3 The Question of Bāyazīd’s Dates
4 The Speech of Bāyazīd
1 The Corpus of Bāyazīd’s Sayings
2 Modes of Expression in the Speech of Bāyazīd
Part2 The Teachings of Bāyazīd, Fundamentals
5 The Path and Its Pitfalls
1 Spiritual Psychology in Third-/Ninth-Century Mysticism
2 Bāyazīd’s Understanding of the Make-Up of the Human Being
3 Pitfalls of the Path
6 On Some Pillars and Tenets of Islam
1 Observing the Obligatory Practices
2 The Hajj
3 Messengers of God and the Prophet
4 Paradise and Hell
7 What Bāyazīd Says about God
1 God, His Names and Attributes
2 Divine Transcendence and Inaccessibility
3 Intimacy
4 Awareness of God versus Heedlessness
5 Nothing but Him
Part3 Further Dimensions of the Spiritual Path
8 Spiritual Virtues, States, and Stations
1 Poverty
2 Submission to the Divine Will
3 Complete Trust in God
4 Humility versus Arrogance
5 Mindfulness of God (taqwā) and Veracity (ṣidq)
6 Annihilation (fanāʾ) and Subsistence (baqāʾ)
7 Unification (jamʿ) and Separation (tafriqa)
9 Knowledge and Love
1 Knowledge
2 Love
10 Absence and Presence, Veils and Mirrors
1 Absence (ghayba) and Presence (ḥudūr)
2 Veils and Veiling
3 Mirrors
Part4 Bāyazīd as Spiritual Master and in the Community
11 Bāyazīd as Spiritual Master
1 Bāyazīd’s Homilies and Counsel to His Disciples
2 Explanation of the Path for Others
3 Female Disciples of Bāyazīd
12 Bāyazīd in the Wider Community
1 Different Paths among the Muslims
2 Bāyazīd under Censure: Challenges and Critiques
3 Critique and Corrective
4 Bāyazīd and his Zoroastrian Neighbours
Part5 Bāyazīd’s Autobiographical Accounts
13 Bāyazīd’s Accounts of His Spiritual Journey
1 The Beginning of the Path and the Struggle with the Nafs
2 Becoming Free of Self
3 Descriptions of the Whole Journey
14 Spiritual Peregrination, Flight, and the Miʿrāj
15 The Longer Miʿrāj Narratives
Part6 Controversy, Paradox, and Contradiction
16 Shaṭḥ, Paradox, and the Paradoxical
1 Definitions and Translations of the Shatḥ
2 Ecstatic Utterances of Bāyazīd
3 Paradoxes and the Paradoxical
4 A Few Other Controversial Sayings
17 Apparent Contradictions
1 Bāyazīd and “Miracles”
2 The Sense of Pride (iftikhār) versus the Acknowledgement of Neediness (iftiqār)
Part7 After Bāyazīd
18 The Impact and Influence of Bāyazīd on Islamic Mysticism
1 Early Responses to Bāyazid
2 Later Responses to the Shaṭḥiyyāt
3 Bāyazīd’s Wider Corpus in Sufi Literature
4 Bāyazid among Love Mystics
5 ʿAṭṭār and Rūmī
6 Ibn ʿArabī
7 Influence versus Appropriation
8 Abū l-Ḥasan Kharaqānī
9 A Glimpse at Bāyazīd’s Literary Influence
Conclusion & Closing Remarks
Bibliography
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects and Terms
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies on Sufism ; 9 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-68048-9 / 9004680489 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-68048-7 / 9789004680487 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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