Beyond “Love Mysticism”
In this article, I present and analyze what I call Yūnus Emre’s Sufi Theology of Selfhood conveyed in his Dīwān. In contrast to current one-dimensional approaches to Yūnus’ Sufi theology as “love mysticism,” on the basis of my research into what I call Yūnus’ Sufi Theology of Selfhood, I argue that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-81 |
| Further subjects: | B
Old Anatolian Turkish
Ottoman Sufism
Sufi doctrine
Sufi poetry
Sufism
selfhood
Turkish poetry
Yūnus Emre
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| Summary: | In this article, I present and analyze what I call Yūnus Emre’s Sufi Theology of Selfhood conveyed in his Dīwān. In contrast to current one-dimensional approaches to Yūnus’ Sufi theology as “love mysticism,” on the basis of my research into what I call Yūnus’ Sufi Theology of Selfhood, I argue that Yūnus’ Sufism is multidimensional. Hence, it is deserving of a more broad-minded methodology. In part 1, I present a summary of Yūnus’ life and times, and offer a generic analysis of his poetry. To contextualize my study of selections from Yūnus’ Dīwān, I present a brief overview of the historical development of what I call a Sufi Theology of Selfhood in part 2. In part 3 of the article, I translate and scrutinize selections of Yūnus’ poems that I maintain best reflect his Sufi Theology of Selfhood from ontological-cosmological, epistemological, and experiential points of view. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 2210-5956 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of Sufi studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341295 |
