Striving for Divine Union Spiritual Exercises for Suhraward Sufis Routledgecurzon Sufi Series 1st Edition by Qamar ul Huda 1135788421 9781135788421

1. The Life of Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar al-SuhrawardĪ

Islamic Education: A Hanbalī Scholar and Sūfī

Shaikh al-Islām and Political Statesman Under Caliph al-Nāsir

Caliph al-Nāsir’s Involvement With futūwwa Groups

Political and Diplomatic Trips

Shaikh al-Suhrawardī’s Relationship With the Nizārī Ismāʿīlīs

2. ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif: The Sūfī Manual of Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī

The Sūfī Background of Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī

Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar Suhrawardī: ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif

The taṣawwuf of Shaikh al-Suhrawardī

Shaikh al-Suhrawardī On Prayers

Explanations of Spirituality (rūhāniyyāt)

Knowledge of the Spirit and Soul

On Proper Etiquette – ādāb

Practicing the Art of Patience – sabr

Poverty and Asceticism – faqr wa ẓuhd

3. Sacred Identities In the Suhrawardīyya Order

Religious Identities and Rituals

Characteristics of Suhrawardī Sacred Identities

Historical Panegyric Poetry

The Sacred Identity and Sacred Place of ḥadīths With Sūfī Poetry

natʿiyya Poetry As a Source of Imagery

The Prophet As the Intercessor In Sūfī natʿiyya Poetry

Suhrawardīyya dhikr Rituals

4. The Suhrawardīyya silsilā In Multan and Ucch

Suhrawardī Sources

State Politics and Suhrawardī Sūfīs

The Suhrawardīyya silsilā Under Sultān Iltutmish

The Clash of Shaikh Rukn al-Dīn and Aiba Kishlu’s Rebellion

The Suhrawardīyya silsilā Expansion Into Ucch

5. Multanī Suhrawardī taṣawwuf Spiritual Exercises

Suhrawardī taṣawwuf

taṣawwuf Exercises

Purifying the Heart

Khulasāt al-ʿĀrifīn and Al-Awārd Texts

The Practice of Spiritual Exercises – dhikr

dhikr Namāz Khriftan

dhikr fiʿl Shaʿban

dhikr shab-e Barāt

dhikr fiʿl Ramadān

Salutations for Shaikh al-Suhrawardī’s Death Celebration – ʿurs

Salutations to Shaikh as-Sūfīyya wa Shaikh al-Islām – Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī

Katam Sharīf Khajghān silsilā Suhrawardīyyā (raḥmat Allāh alāh)

Appendix A: Praises for God; Remembrance of Prayers

Appendix B: Prayer for Enlightenment; Prayer for shab-e barāt

Notes

Introduction

1. The Life of Shaikh ʿAbū Hafs ʿUmar al-Suhraward–

2. ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif

3. Sacred Identities In the Suhraward–yya Order

4. The Suhraward–yya silsilā In Multan and Ucch

5. Multan– Suhraward– taṣawwuf Spiritual Exercises

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