Sufi Cosmology

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University and Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies. His research focuses on premodern Islamic intellectual and cultural history, particularly in the areas of Islamic eschatology, Islamic law and legal theory, Islamic mysticism, and the Muslim sensorium.Alexander Knysh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan and Director of an Islamic studies project at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He specializes in Sufism, Qur’anic studies, Muslim theological, philosophical and juridical thought, and modern Islamic movements in comparative perspective.

• ContentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: What Is Sufi Cosmology?Christian Lange and Alexander KnyshPart 1: Sufi Cosmogony and Eschatology1 Cosmo-Eschatology in Sufi Thought and PracticeNoah Gardiner2 Cosmogonic Myths in SufismStephen Hirtenstein3 Classes of Beings in SufismSaeko Yazaki4 Sufi Views on Time and HistoryJean-Jacques Thibon5 Sufi Views of Life in the GraveLeah Kinberg6 Paradise in Sufi ThoughtChristian Lange7 Hell in Sufi ThoughtChristian LangePart 2: Sufi Views of the World8 Zuhd in Islamic MysticismSara Sviri9 Sufi Views of NatureMunjed M. Murad10 Mecca and Other Cosmological Centres in the Sufi UniverseSimon O’Meara11 Macrocosm and Microcosm in Sufi ThoughtPierre Lory12 The Cosmo-Eschatology of Saints and MahdīsNoah GardinerPart 3: Levels of Being in Sufi Thought13 Sufi Hierarchies of the Worlds or Levels of Existence: Mulk, Malakūt, Jabarūt, and Related ConceptsMathieu Terrier14 Emanation (Fayḍ) in Classical Islamic MysticismMichael Ebstein15 Levels of Being in Sufi ThoughtRichard Todd16 Imagination in Islamic Mystical Philosophy: The Eschatological and Ontological CaseBinyamin Abrahamov17 Otherworldly Journeys in Pre-Modern SufismFrederick ColbyIndex