Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Contributors v
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Mystical Theologies
7. 1 Mystical Theology and the Traditionalist Hermeneutics of Maybudī’s Kashf al-Asrār 15
8. 2 The All-Comprehensive Circle (al-Iḥāṭa): Soul, Intellect, and the Oneness of Existence in the Doctrine of Ibn Sab'īn 31
9. 3 One Aspect of the Akbarian Turn in Shī'ī Theology 49
10. 4 Sufism and Theology in the Confessions of Şā’in al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 830/1437) 63
11. 5 A Sufi Theology Fit for a Shī'ī King: The Gawhar-i Murād of 'Abd al-Razzāq Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661–2) 83
12. PART II Theological Approaches to Sufism
13. 6 The Mystic and the Sceptic in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī 101
14. 7 Ibn Taymiyya’s Commentary on the Creed of al-Ḥallāj 123
15. 8 Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534) on Ibn 'Arabī’s Hagiology 137
16. 9 Scriptural Sufism and Scriptural Anti-Sufism: Theology and mysticism amongst the Shī'ī Akhbāriyya 158
17. 10 Reconciling Sufism with Theology: Abī l-Wafā al-Taftāzānī and the Construct of ‘al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmī’ in Modern Egyp 177
18. Index 199