In Intellectual Life in the ijz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century ijz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts.
Positioning Ibrhm al-Krn (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism ijz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalm and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Krns work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn Arabs ideas with Ashar theology, Ibn Arabs ideas became Islamic theology.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: When All Roads Led to the ijz
1 The Seventeenth-Century ijz in Its Global and Local Context
1The Seventeenth-Century ijz in its Global Context
2The Seventeenth-Century ijz in its Local Context
3Conclusion
2 Intellectual Life in the ijz in the Seventeenth Century
1Educational Institutions in the ijz in the Seventeenth Century
2Rational Sciences in the ijz
3Isnd as a Source for Intellectual Life in the Seventeenth-Century ijz
4How the Rational Sciences Reached the ijz
5Conclusion
3 Ibrhm al-Krns Life, Education, Teachers, and Students
1Al-Krns Life
2Al-Krns Education
3Al-Krns Teachers
4Al-Krns Contacts with Other Scholars of His Time
5Al-Krns Students
6Al-Krns Affiliation to Sufi Orders
7Conclusion
4 Al-Krns Works
1Al-Krns Works (Examined)
2Al-Krns Works (Inaccessible)
3Works Misattributed to al-Krn
4Conclusion
5 Al-Krns Metaphysical and Cosmological Thought
1God is Absolute Existence (al-wujd al-mulaq or al-wujd al-ma)
2Gods Attributes and Allegorical Interpretation (tawl)
3Gods Manifestations in Sensible and Conceivable Forms
4Nafs al-amr in al-Krns Thought
5Asharites and Mental Existence
6Realities: Uncreated Nonexistent Quiddities
7Gods Knowledge of Particulars
8Creation
9Unity and Multiplicity
10Destiny and Predetermination
11Kasb: Free Will and Predestination
12The Unity of the Attributes (wadat al-ift)
13Wadat al-Wujd
14Conclusion
6 Al-Krns Other Theological and Sufi Thought
1The Faith of Pharaoh
2The Precedence of Gods Mercy and the Vanishing of the Hellfire (fan
al-nr)
3Satanic Verses
4Preference for the Reality of the Kaba or for the Muammadan Reality
5Gods Speech (kalm Allh)
6Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Al-Krns Teachers, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text
Appendix 2: Al-Krns Students, Additional to Those Mentioned in the Text
Appendix 3: Al-Krns Works Ordered Alphabetically
Bibliography
Index
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 ijz, including a critical edition of al-Barzanjs al-Jdhib al-ghayb, and another book entitled Sufism in the ijz before Wahhabism is in progress.
