Frederick S. Colby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn ʿAbbās Ascension Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor and translator of The Subtleties of the Ascension: Lataʾif al-Miraj: Early Mystical Sayings on Muhammad's Heavenly Journey..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Antecedents, Commentaries, and Fragments2. Shared Discourses and Polemics of Ascent3. Emerging Andalūsī Mālikī Traditions4. Intertextual Qurān and Prophetic Reports: Ibn Barrajān5. Contemplation of the Visionary Experience: Ibn QaīConclusionAppendix: Translation of Real Academia de la Historia MS Codera 241NotesBibliographyIndex

"This remarkable study introduces a little-known body of Islamic ascension literature. Colby's nuanced approach, which situates this literature in relation to Sufism of the central Islamic lands along with a careful exploration of the theological and philosophical milieu of medieval Spain, makes this a valuable contribution to the study of Sufism and the western pietistic Islamic traditions." — Richard J. A. McGregor, Vanderbilt University

Frederick S. Colby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn ʿAbbās Ascension Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor and translator of The Subtleties of the Ascension: Lataʾif al-Miraj: Early Mystical Sayings on Muhammad's Heavenly Journey..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Antecedents, Commentaries, and Fragments2. Shared Discourses and Polemics of Ascent3. Emerging Andalūsī Mālikī Traditions4. Intertextual Qurān and Prophetic Reports: Ibn Barrajān5. Contemplation of the Visionary Experience: Ibn QaīConclusionAppendix: Translation of Real Academia de la Historia MS Codera 241NotesBibliographyIndex

"This remarkable study introduces a little-known body of Islamic ascension literature. Colby's nuanced approach, which situates this literature in relation to Sufism of the central Islamic lands along with a careful exploration of the theological and philosophical milieu of medieval Spain, makes this a valuable contribution to the study of Sufism and the western pietistic Islamic traditions." — Richard J. A. McGregor, Vanderbilt University

Frederick S. Colby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn ʿAbbās Ascension Discourse, also published by SUNY Press, and the editor and translator of The Subtleties of the Ascension: Lataʾif al-Miraj: Early Mystical Sayings on Muhammad's Heavenly Journey..

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Antecedents, Commentaries, and Fragments2. Shared Discourses and Polemics of Ascent3. Emerging Andalūsī Mālikī Traditions4. Intertextual Qurān and Prophetic Reports: Ibn Barrajān5. Contemplation of the Visionary Experience: Ibn QaīConclusionAppendix: Translation of Real Academia de la Historia MS Codera 241NotesBibliographyIndex

"This remarkable study introduces a little-known body of Islamic ascension literature. Colby's nuanced approach, which situates this literature in relation to Sufism of the central Islamic lands along with a careful exploration of the theological and philosophical milieu of medieval Spain, makes this a valuable contribution to the study of Sufism and the western pietistic Islamic traditions." — Richard J. A. McGregor, Vanderbilt University