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Sufis and Sharīʿa: The Forgotten School of Mercy
Author:
Samer Dajani
ISBN:
9789395474634
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
402 with 3 black and white illustrations
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
738 grams
Price:
INR
2995
2696.00
About the Book
Establishes the existence of an important school of Sufi thought developed by Ibn ʿArabī.
• Gives the first detailed analysis of the legal thought of Ibn ʿArabī, one of the most influential Muslims in general, and Sufis in particular.• Shows that Ibn ʿArabī had created his own
madhhab
(legal methodology) with a focus on mercy and ease for Muslims.• Explores the influence of Ibn ʿArabī, al-Tirmidhī and al-Shaʿrānī on legal thought.• Includes some of al-Shaʿrānī’s eight illustrations, his work being the only work of Islamic legal theory that includes drawings.This book is not about Sufism. It is about the nature of the Sharīʿa. In the first three centuries of Islam, many scholars believed that juristic differences were rooted in the Sharīʿa’s inherent flexibility. As this pluralistic attitude began to disappear, a number of Sufis defended and developed this idea through the centuries. They aimed to preserve the leniency and simplicity of the Sharīʿa against the complications and restrictions created by many jurists.This book focuses on four major Sufi figures whose contributions to legal theory were strongly shaped by their mystical thought: Ibn ʿArabī, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, al-Shaʿrānī and Aḥmad ibn Idrīs. It gives a detailed analysis of their legal thought, revealing that they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other’s ideas, and also highlights their influence on other major Sufis all the way up to the 19th century. This is the first study to give a full picture of the role that Sufi thought played in the revivalist Islamic movements of the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries.
About the Author
Samer Dajani
Dr Samer Dajani gained his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS in 2015, before spending a year as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and then working as a lecturer in both Sufism and Modern Islamic Thought at the Muslim College in Ealing, London until 2020. He then stopped teaching to focus on a major new research project, and has given talks on selected subjects from this research at The University of Cambridge, The University of Exeter, SOAS and the annual BRAIS Conference. His publications include ‘Ibn ʿArabī and the Theory of a Flexible Sharīʿa’, in the
Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society
(2018), ‘The Centrality of Ibn ʿArabī in Popular Ḥadīth Chains’, in the
Journal of the Muhyid-din Ibn ʿArabi Society
(2017) and a 2013 book,
Reassurance for the Seeker: A Biography and Translation of Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī’s al-Fawāiʾd al-Jaʿfariyya, a Commentary on Forty Prophetic Traditions
.
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