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Lost in a Sea of Letters

Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge

Inbunden, Arabiska, 2025

Av Cyril Villarosa Uy II, Cyril Villarosa Uy II

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In Lost in a Sea of Letters, Cyril Uy explores the life and work of Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya (d. 1252), a Mongol-era Sufi whose arcane treatises inspired generations of mystics and messiahs. Reading Ḥamūya in dialogue with contemporaries across Central Asia, Iran, and the Eastern Mediterranean, Uy excavates a world in which knowledge was an embodied sensibility: a way of being that could improvise across all dimensions of human experience. Ḥamūya’s performative writing reworked the foundations of this knowledge, provoking readers to live reality through the cacophony of his Sufi free jazz. Foregrounding Ḥamūya’s deconstructive ethos and radical openness to interpretation, Uy reveals how embracing plurality could thrive as a mode of social, intellectual, and spiritual competition.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-17
Mått155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt663 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkArabiska, Engelska
SerieIslamicate Intellectual History
Antal sidor312
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004725065

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AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on Transliteration and UsageIntroduction1 Ecce homo2 Theory and Method (or, How to Read Ḥamūya)3 Progression of Themes (Lead Sheet)1 Riffing on the Real: Letters and the Language of God1 (In)coherence of the Philosophers2 Ḥamūya and the Ḥurūf3 The Science of Letters in Ibn ʿArabī’s Meccan Revelations4 Dynamism and Difference5 Conclusion2 Sufi Free Jazz: Prayer, Deconstruction, and Boundless Play1 Body and Soul: The Sufi Manuals of Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī, and Shihāb al-Dīn ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī2 Both Directions at Once: The Levels of Joy as Sufi Free Jazz3 Meditations: Prayer as Spiritual Technology?4 Ascension: Ḥamūya’s Prayers as Free Jazz Improvisation?5 Conclusion3 Calculating Infinity: Diagram and/as Devotion1 Repetition and Difference: The Mirror of Spirits as Sufi Devotional Text2 Dada Talismans? Deconstructing Visual Language3 Diagramming Devotion: The Mirror of Spirits as Abstract Machine4 Conclusion4 Genealogies of Knowledge: Shaykhs, Sufis, and Spiritual Inheritance1 Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya and the All-Powerful Sufi Shaykh2 Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and ʿAmmār al-Bidlīsī3 Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī and Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī4 Spiritual Inheritance and the Politics of Citation5 The Ḥamūya Clan6 The Ayyūbid Context: Ḥamūya and the Chief Sufis of Egypt and Syria7 The Mongol Context: Ḥamūya and the “Golden Kin”8 Conclusion5 Real Talk: Language, Revelation, and Human Perfection1 Prophecy and Sainthood: An Overview2 Prophecy and Sainthood as Relational Principles3 Endless Deferrals in The Book of the Beloved4 Inimitability, Incomprehensibility, and Wonder5 ConclusionCodaAppendix1: Biographical EssayAppendix2: Literature ReviewAppendix3: List of Ḥamūya’s WorksAppendix4: Mirror of Spirits StructureBibliographyIndex