Ibn Sina has been the object of many contemporary studies, all of which have attempted to examine various angles of the possible connection between Ibn Sina and mysticism. These studies, however, have not fully explored Ibn Sina's understanding of mysticism; he is generally seen…
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In my work I am intrigued and inspired by mysticism, which is to believe in the unity of Allah, signifying that all creation emerges from one source and eventually goes back to it. It is an all-encompassing unity and nothing exists without it. This belief influences both the con…
This thesis contends that sufism, tasawwuf, Islamic mysticism, on the shoulders of al-asrar, the Mysteries (or secrets) allowed Islam to become a viable force in West Africa. As sufis, Islamic strivers often conveyed the words and ideas of Muslim belief through a peaceful means …
The term "in Christ" is widely recognized within the Christian Church as a signature term of the Apostle Paul. But while the term is recognized as fundamental to his theology, occurring 180 times specifically and 300 times generally, functional usage is minimal. However, when th…
In this dissertation, I develop the notion of the presence and influence of an Iberian Sufi mystical process in the poetry of Clara Janés and Joaquim Pessoa. I also further define these poets' role in the development of postmodernism in the Iberian Peninsula. In Chapter I, I giv…
Spanning a 1,123 year period between Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, the Byzantine Empire was the legitimate continuation of the imperium Romanum. Although the main defender of Christianity against the encroachments of Islam in the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the bulw…
This thesis is a study of the intellectual formation and thought of Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Murtaḍā ibn Maḥmūd al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī (1007/1598–1091/1680), a Twelver Shi'ite philosopher, theologian, traditionist (muḥaddith), exegete (mufassir), jurist, and poet in Safavid Iran (907/150…
In the early history of Islam, philosophy, theology, and the teachings of the Sufis did not overlap in any important way, but this would eventually change. Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), among others, provided Muslim thinkers with a language for metaphysical speculation and was open to mys…
This dissertation addresses the reciprocal relations between rational speculation and devotional piety in the life and thought of Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (= Cordovero - RaMaK, Safed, 1522-1570), arguably the most important mystical thinker in Jewish history. By featuring numerous …
This dissertation is a study of the role mystical discourse and experience can play in Christian-Muslim dialogue as a subset of interfaith dialogue in general. It will concentrate on the work of two great medieval mystic masters, one Muslim, the other Christian. The Muslim is th…
This study tries to clarify the major religio-political problem of modern Muslim intellectuals and suggest what sufism might offer them, by analyzing the thought of one prominent Muslim Egyptian, Naguib Mahfouz (1911- ) as an intellectual who lives as a Muslim in the modern age.…
Medieval S[dotbelow]ufi manuals all agree that al-Kharraz was one of the most notable S[dotbelow]ufi figures of his time. These sources mostly cite him as one who contributed to the S[dotbelow]ufi norm, more so, as one who contributed to the acceptable S[dotbelow]ufi norm which …
This dissertation brings together an interfaith ethos of mystic spirituality, the liberative praxis of prophetic theology, and the applied metaphysical principles of New Thought in a constructive theology emphasizing individual and social transformation. Drawing on the literatur…
At certain axial moments in history new religious worldviews emerge to replace prior perspectives that are no longer adequate or persuasive. A new worldview opens new possibilities for the human religious quest for meaning, being, and salvation. A fundamental conviction underlyi…
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a flourishing time for Islamic mysticism, several Islamic mystics of Iran and Central Asia found their way to the ideas and thoughts of one of the most important and influential schools of Islamic mysticism; that of the Master Maximus Sha…
This dissertation examines the convergence of mysticism, genealogical representation, and sanctity in the social construction of a holy man in nineteenth century Mauritania. It takes as its subject Muhammad Fadil wuld Mamin (d.1868) who is regarded in the existing literature as …
The dissertation examines Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche of Lights ) by the famous Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic Abu H[dotbelow]alamid Muh[dotbelow]ammad al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111). Mishkat al-Anwar explains a verse of the Qur'an (al-Nur /24:35) and a saying (h[dotbelow]adith…
The dominant position in contemporary analyses of mystical experience is that of Steven Katz, who argues that all experience is necessarily mediated. This perspective insists that direct experience (experience unmediated by context) cannot happen, and maintains that mystical exp…
The metaphysics of Ibn `Arabi can be articulated in a single concept, the "Oneness of Being," as expressed centuries earlier by Imam `Ali ibn Abi T[dotbelow]alib in his statement, "God is in everything but not by being contained within them, and separate from all things but not …