Lost in a Sea of Letters : Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge /

Lost in a Sea of Letters : Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge /

In Lost in a Sea of Letters , Cyril Uy explores the life and work of Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya (d. 1252), a Mongol-era Sufi whose arcane treatises inspired generations of mystics and messiahs. Reading Ḥamūya in dialogue with contemporaries across Central Asia, Iran, and the Eastern Mediterranean, Uy excava...

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Main Author: Uy II, Cyril V. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Islamicate Intellectual History ; 14.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Asian Studies.
Middle East and Islamic Studies.

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Call Number: DS501

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Note on Transliteration and Usage
  • Introduction
  • 1 Ecce homo
  • 2 Theory and Method (or, How to Read Ḥamūya)
  • 3 Progression of Themes (Lead Sheet)
  • 1 Riffing on the Real: Letters and the Language of God
  • 1 (In)coherence of the Philosophers
  • 2 Ḥamūya and the Ḥurūf
  • 3 The Science of Letters in Ibn ʿArabī's Meccan Revelations
  • 4 Dynamism and Difference
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 2 Sufi Free Jazz: Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play
  • 1 Body and Soul: The Sufi Manuals of Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī, and Shihāb al-Dīn ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī
  • 2 Both Directions at Once: The Levels of Joy as Sufi Free Jazz
  • 3 Meditations: Prayer as Spiritual Technology?
  • 4 Ascension: Ḥamūya's Prayers as Free Jazz Improvisation?
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 3 Calculating Infinity: Diagram and/as Devotion
  • 1 Repetition and Difference: The Mirror of Spirits as Sufi Devotional Text
  • 2 Dada Talismans? Deconstructing Visual Language
  • 3 Diagramming Devotion: The Mirror of Spirits as Abstract Machine
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4 Genealogies of Knowledge: Shaykhs, Sufis, and Spiritual Inheritance
  • 1 Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya and the All-Powerful Sufi Shaykh
  • 2 Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and ʿAmmār al-Bidlīsī
  • 3 Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī and Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī
  • 4 Spiritual Inheritance and the Politics of Citation
  • 5 The Ḥamūya Clan
  • 6 The Ayyūbid Context: Ḥamūya and the Chief Sufis of Egypt and Syria
  • 7 The Mongol Context: Ḥamūya and the "Golden Kin"
  • 8 Conclusion
  • 5 Real Talk: Language, Revelation, and Human Perfection
  • 1 Prophecy and Sainthood: An Overview
  • 2 Prophecy and Sainthood as Relational Principles
  • 3 Endless Deferrals in The Book of the Beloved
  • 4 Inimitability, Incomprehensibility, and Wonder
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Coda
  • Appendix1: Biographical Essay
  • Appendix2: Literature Review
  • Appendix3: List of Ḥamūya's Works
  • Appendix4: Mirror of Spirits Structure
  • Bibliography
  • Index.