The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.

The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.

In The Grey Falcon , Hamza Malik offers an account of the life and teaching of the twelfth century scholar and Sufi of Baghdad, and eponym of the Qadiri order, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1077-1166). The question of whether Jīlānī was a Sufi, or simply a scholar appropriated by later Sufis as ha...

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Main Author: Hamza Malik

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 155.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Call Number: BP189.7.Q32 M35 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Time, Place and Person
  • Setting the Scene: Baghdad Around The Time of Jīlānī
  • The Life of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
  • Thought, Practice and Experience
  • Theology I: The Ḥanbalī Foundation
  • Theology II: Names and Nomenclature
  • Sufism I: Reading the Ghunya
  • Sufism II: the Path to the Truth
  • The Figure of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Back Matter
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.