TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avery,Kenneth
TI  - Shibli: his life and thought in the sufi tradition 
SN  - 1438451814 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BP80.S5365 A94 2014
U1  - 297.4092B 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Shiblī, Abū Bakr,
KW  - Sufis
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - History
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The historical context -- Shibli in the sources -- Sarraj's Book of illuminations -- Kalabadhi's Book of understanding -- Sulami's generations of the sufis -- Abu Nuʻaym's Ornament of God's friends -- Qushayri's treatise -- Hujwiri's Revealing the veiled -- Ansari's Generations of the sufis -- Ruzbihan's Explanation of ecstatic sayings -- Ha??ar's Memoirs of God's friends -- Jami's Breaths of intimacy -- Two non-sufi historians: Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Dhahabi -- Shibli and the sources: conclusions -- Themes and relationships -- Narrative structures and styles -- The nature of Shibli's sayings -- Shibli and Junayd -- Shibli and Hallaj -- The question of Shibli's insanity -- Shibli's poetry -- Shibli and the Qurʼan
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