Ranks of the Divine Seekers

Ovamir Anjum, Ph.D. (2008), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor and Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Toledo. His publications include numerous articles and a monograph Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

• AcknowledgementsTranslation NotesTranslator’s Introduction1 Madārij and Its Author2 The Formation of Sufism3 Sufism and Antinomianism4 Sufism and Mysticism5 Defining Sufism6 Al-Harawī and Manāzil7 Madārij’s Reverential Critique of Manāzil8 The Problem of Ontology: Annihilation (fanāʾ)9 Causality and Ethics10 The Problem of Epistemology11 An Egalitarian and Accessible Path12 ConclusionSelected BibliographyIbn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madārij al-Sālikīn: Text and TranslationProlegomenon1 Merits of the First Chapter of the Qurʾan, The Opening2 The Opening Affirms All the Three Types of Divine Unicity3 The Five Pivotal Names of God Affirm His Attributes4 Ten Levels of Divine Guidance5 The Opening Heals Hearts as well as Bodies6 Refutation of Heresies7 Exegesis of “You we worship and You we supplicate for help”1 The Stations of the Journey1 The Station of Awakening2 The Station of Insight3 The Station of Purpose4 The Station of Resolve5 Interlude: On the Ordering of the Stations2 The Station of Reflection1 Interlude: The Station of Annihilation2 Three Types of Annihilation3 The Causes of Experiential Annihilation4 The Essence of Experiential Annihilation5 The Dangers on the Path of Annihilation: Antinomianism6 Volitional Annihilation: The True Goal of the Righteous3 The Station of Self-Reckoning1 The First Pillar2 The Second Pillar3 The Third Pillar4 The Station of Repentance1 Repentance and The Opening2 The Conditions and Realities of Repentance3 Legitimate and Illegitimate Excuses for Sins4 The Inner Realities of Repentance5 The Finer Points of the Inner Realities of Repentance8 Interlude: Affirmation of the Ethical Value of Acts and Causality9 Levels of Repentance: The Commoners10 Some Rulings Concerning Repentance11 The Full Meaning of Repentance12 Sins: The Object of Repentance13 Twelve Kinds of Sins in the Qurʾan14 Perspectives on the Nature of Sin and RepentanceIndex

Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)