Bāyazīd: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abū Yazīd al-Basṭāmī (d. ca. 234/848) : Based on the Earliest Sources /

Bāyazīd: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abū Yazīd al-Basṭāmī (d. ca. 234/848) : Based on the Earliest Sources /

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 i...

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Main Author: Keeler, Annabel (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies on Sufism ; 9.

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Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.