Wisdom in Controversy: Paradox and the Paradoxical in Sayings of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī (d. 234/848 or 261/875)
Sufi authors, such as Abū Naṣr al-Sarrāj (d. 378/998) and Ruzbihan Baqlī (d. 606/1209), were concerned to explain the shaṭḥiyyāt, often translated as "ecstatic utterances", of earlier mystics and defend them against the condemnation they received from those who had neither the experience n...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
[2018]
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-26 |
Further subjects: | B
shaṭḥiyyāt
B paradox (paradoxe) B Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī (Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī) B Sufism |
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