{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/64412cd1425b310011256255?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Islamic Non-Dualism: The Sufi Poetry of al-Shushtari","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61c869811c6a7900119a34ed/1681992846948-fd3e30231d085ddab4663baba272545a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This episode is a sort of remake of an earlier one I did on al-Shushtari a few years back, with some added content. Join me as we explore on of the most fascinating Sufi poets in history.</p><p><br></p><p>Translations of poems and the Baghdad Treatise are from the works of Lourdes Maria Alvarez.</p><p>Translations from Risalat al-Qusariyya are by Yousef Casewit.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Sources/Recomended Reading:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Abou-Bakr, Omaima (1992). \"The Symbolic Function of Metaphor in Medieval Sufi Poetry: The Case of Shushtari\". Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 12, Metaphor and Allegory in the Middle Ages (1992), pp. 40-57.</li><li>Alvarez, Lourdes Maria (2009). \"Abu-l Hasan al-Shushtari: Songs of Love and Devotion\". In the \"Classics of Western Spirituality\" series. Paulist Press.</li><li>Alvarez, Lourdes Maria (2005). \"The Mystical Language of Everyday Life\": Vernacular Sufi Poetry and the Songs of Abu Al-Hasan Al-Shustari\". Exemplaria. 17:1, 1-32, DOI: 10.1179/exm.2005.17.1.1.</li><li>Ceballos, Carlos Berbil (2015). \"Journeying from the Apparent to Absolute Being: Ibn Sab'in and his Predecessors\". Journal of the Muhydin Ibn 'Arabi Society, Vol. 58.</li><li>Casewit, Yousef (2017). \"The Mystics of Al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajan and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century\". Cambridge University Press.</li><li>Casewit, Yousef (2020). \"Shushtarī’s Treatise on the Limits of Theology and Sufism: Discursive Knowledge (ʿilm), Direct Recognition (maʿrifa), and Mystical Realization (taḥqīq) in al-Risāla al-Quṣāriyya\". Article. Divinity School, The University of Chicago.</li><li>Casewit, Yousef (2020). \"The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla</li><li>al-miʿrājiyya): Cosmology and Time in the Writings of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī (d. 668/1269)\". In \"Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering\". Edited by Jamal J. Elias &amp; Bilal Orfali. Brill.</li><li>Cornell, Vincent J. (1998). \"Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism\". University of Texas Press.</li><li>Cornell, Vincent J. (2007). \"The All-Comprehensive Circle (al-Ihata): Soul, Intellect, and the Oneness of Existence in the Doctrine of Ibn Sab'in\". In \"Sufism and Theology\", edited by Ayman Shihadeh. Edinburgh University Press.</li><li>Ebstein, Michael (2014). \"Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-'Arabi and the Isma'ili Tradition\". Brill.</li><li>Johnson. N. Scott (1995). \"Ocean and Pearls: Ibn Sab'in, Shustari and the Doctrine of Absolute Unity\". In \"Sufi: Journal of Sufism\" Issue 25.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>#sufism #mysticism #islam</p>","author_name":"Filip Holm"}