Articles Arranged By Topic

Essays and Islamic Themes

Sufism

    • The Spirituality of the Sufi Path,” Chapter 17, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality, First Edition. 2023
    • The Sound of SilenceRenovatio, FALL 2019 (with passages on Sam’ani, ibn ‘Arabi, and other Sufi masters)
    • A Shadhili Presence in Shi’ite Islam” Sophia Perennis 1/1 (1975), pp. 97-100. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 4.
      • Turkish translation by Ahmet Murat Özel. “Șîa’da bir Șazelî İzi.”  Tasavvuf: ilmî ve akemik araştırma dergisi 33/1 (2014), pp. 119-22.
    •  “ʿAwāref al-maʿāref.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3, (1987), pp. 114-115.
    • Khwaja Khord’s Treatise on the Gnostic” Sufi 5 (1990), pp. 11-12.  Persian as “Risāla-yi ʿārif-i Khwāja Khurd.”  Sūfī 4 (1368 [1989]), pp. 22-25.  Also in Search (2011), Chapter 13.
    • The Way of the Sufi Sufi 14 (1992), pp. 5-10. Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 1.
    • “Khwāja Khurd wa risāla-yi Nūr-i waḥdat-i way.”  Iran Nameh 11/1 (1993), pp. 101-20
    • The Spiritual Path of Love in Ibn al-‘Arabi and RumiMystics Quarterly 19/1 (1993), pp. 4-16.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 6.
    • The Tao of SufismPsychotherapy East and West: Integration of Psychotherapies (The Revised Edition of Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Psychotherapy).  Seoul: Korean Academy of Psychotherapists, 1995, pp. 132-39.
    • Islamic MysticismMysticism and the Mystical Experience.  Edited by Donald H. Bishop.  Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1995, pp. 299-325.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 7.
    • Persian translation by Karīm Rabbānī. Ṣūfī 29, 1995, pp. 6-13; also in Kīmiyā (Tehran), 1 (1377/1998), pp. 27-39.
    •  “Teaching Islam in Medieval Iran: Ahmad Samʿani’s Refreshment of Spirits.”  Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life.  Edited by John Renard.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. 269-77.
    • Taṣawwuf 2.  Ibn al-ʿArabī and after in the Arabic and Persian lands and beyond.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 9 (1998), pp. 317-24.
    • On Sufi Psychology–A Debate Between the Soul and the SpiritConsciousness and Reality: Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu.  Edited by S.J. Ashtiyani, H. Matsubara, T. Iwami, and A. Matsumoto.  Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998, pp. 341-66.  Also as “Abd al-Jalil of Allahabad on Psychology: A Debate Between the Soul and the Spirit.”  Islamic Heritage in South Asian Subcontinent.  Edited by Nazir Ahmed and I. H. Siddiqui.  Jaipur, India: Publication Scheme, 2000, pp. 157-85. Also as “A Sufi Psychological Treatise from India.”  Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture.  Edited by I. H. Siddiqui.  New Delhi: Manohar, 2003, pp. 167-90. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 14.
    • Traveling the Sufi Path: A Chishtī Handbook from Bijapur.”  The Heritage of Sufism III.  Late Classical Persianate Sufism.  Edited by Leonard Lewisohn and David Morgan.  Oxford: Oneworld, 1999, pp. 247-65. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 15.
    • Sufism–Name and RealityMerton and Sufism: The Untold Story.  Edited by Rob Baker and Gray Henry.  Louisville: Fons Vitae, 1999, pp. 15-31.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 3.
    • The Paradox of the Veil in SufismRending the Veil: Concealment and Secrecy in the History of Religions.  Edited by Elliot R. Wolfson.  Chappaqua, NY: Seven Bridges Press, 1999, pp. 59-85.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 10.
    • On the Cosmology of DhikrPaths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East.  Edited by James S. Cutsinger.  Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 2002, pp. 48-63. .  Revised version in Ibn ‘Arabi (2005), Chapter 4.
    • Love as the Way to Truth”  Sacred Web 15 (2005), pp. 15-27.
      • Italian translation by Marco Cena. “L’amore come Via alla Verità nella tradizione sufi.”  Sufismo e confraternite nell’islam contemporaneo: Il difficile equilibrio tra mistica e politica.   Edited by Marietta Stepanyants.  Torino: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 2003, pp.  13-25.
    • The Pluralistic Vision of Persian Sufi Poetry”  Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 14/4 (2003), pp. 423-28; also in Sufi 61 (2004), pp. 14-19. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 5.
    • Weeping in Classical Sufism”  Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination. Edited by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 132-44. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 3.
    • Slumber Seizes Him Not”  Parabola 30/1 (2005), pp. 32-38.
    • Spirit, Body, and In-Between”  Parabola 30/3 (2005), pp. 6-10.
    • Sufism and Islam”  Sufism: Love & Wisdom.  Edited by Jean-Louis Michon and Roger Gaetani.  Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2006, pp. 21-32.
    • Mysticism in Islam”  Sacred History Magazine (Jan/Feb 2006), pp. 30-39.
    • The Dialectic of Love in Early Persian SufismThe Journal of Dharma 36/1 (2011), pp. 99-113.
    • The Goal of Islamic Education”  Studies in Comparative Religion:  Education in the Light of Tradition, edited by Jane Casewit.  Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom, 2011, pp. 85-92.
      • Persian translation by Seyyed Amir Hossein Asghari as “Āmūzish dar Islām.” Iṭṭilāʿāt-i ḥikmat wa maʿrifat 3/6 (1387/2008), pp. 38-40.
    • Friendship and Love in Islamic Spirituality”  ISOC Focus 2/3 (2012), pp. 7-12.
    • The Pivotal Role of Love in Sufism”  Eranos Jahrbuch 2009-2010-2011: Love on a Fragile Thread.  Edited by Fabio Merlini, Lawrence E. Sullivan, Riccardo Bernardini and Kate Olson.  Daimon Verlag, 2012, 255-73.
    • Islam and the Transformative Power of Love”  Transmutatio: La vie ermetica alla felicità/The Hermetic Way to Happiness.  Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei V (2012), pp. 171-75.
    • Divine Love in Early Persian Prose”  Temenos Academy Review 16 (2013), pp. 129-43.
    • Themes of Love in Islamic Mystical Theology”  Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God.  Edited by Sheelah Treflé Hidden.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 155-80.
    • The Quran and Sufism”  The Study Quran.  Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al.  New York: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 1737-49.
    • SufismThe Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism.  Edited by Glenn Alexander Magee.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 83-94.
    • Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick.  “The Importance of Sufism in Chinese Islam (Murata and Chittick)”  The Door of Mercy:  Kenan Rifai and Sufism Today. International Symposium Proceedings.  Istanbul: Nefes, 2017, pp. 165-71.
    • Moses and the Religion of Love”  Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia:  Rethinking Methodologies. Edited by Yasushi Tonaga and Chiaki Fujii.  Kyoto:  Kyoto University, 2018, pp. 101-18.
    • Sufism–Sufi Thought and Practice (The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World)The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 4, pp. 102-9.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 2.
  • Ahmad Sam’ani:

    • Sam’ani on the Secret of Love in Adam’s Felicitous Sin.The Temenos Academy Review 23 (2020), pp. 171-207.
    • The Myth of Adam’s Fall in Ahmad Sam’ani’s Rawh al-ArwahSufi 15 (1992), pp. 5-13.  Also in Classical Persian Sufism: from its Origins to Rumi.  Ed. L. Lewisohn.  London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1993, pp. 337-59; second edition as The Heritage of Sufism, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999). Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 9.
      • Persian translation by T. Ghaffārī, Ṣūfī 19 (1993), pp. 6-16. Persian translation by Majdoddin Kayvani. Mīrāth-i taṣawwuf (Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2005), vol. 2, pp. 192-214.
    • Ahmad Sam’ani on Divine MercySufi 27 (1995), pp. 5-11.
    • Samʿānī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 7 (1997), p. 1024.
    • SAMʿĀNI, AḤMAD”, in: Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, © Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Consulted online on 03 February 2022 First published online: 2022.

Rumi

    • “Il sufismo operativo in Rumi.”  Italian translation of Chapter 4 of The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi by E. Zolla.  Conoscenza religiosa 3 (1975), pp. 272-88.
    • Rūmī and Waḥdat al-wujūd.Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage of Rūmī. Edited by A. Banani, R. Hovannisian, and G. Sabagh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 70-111. Partially republished as “Rūmī and Waḥdat al-Wujūd – Observations and Insights.” Iqbal Review 48/4 (2007), pp. 3-27. Abbreviated version as “Waḥdat al-Wujūd in Islamic Thought.” The Bulletin of the Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies 10/1 (1991), pp. 7-27. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapters 8-9.
    • Beatific Vision and Poetic Imagery in Baha’ Walad”  Studies in Mystical Literature 5/2 (1985), pp. 21-32; also Sufi 7 (1990), pp. 5-9.  Revised version in Sufism (2000), Chapter 8.
    • Rumi’s View of Imam Husayn”  Alserat (Papers from the Imam Husayn Conference, London, 6th-9th July 1984) 12/1-2 (1986), pp. 3-12.  Reprinted in Rumi’s Spiritual Shi’ism.  Edited by Seyed Ghahreman Safavi.  London Academy of Iranian Studies, 2008, pp. 40-47.
      • Persian translation by Ḥasan Lāhūtī. “Imām Ḥusayn dar Nagāh-i Mawlawī,” Mīrāth-i Jāwīdān 17 (1376/1997), pp. 92-95; also in Gulistān 2/3 (1377/1998), pp. 107-18.
    • Rumi’s View of Death”  Alserat 13/2 (1987), pp. 30-51.
    • Rumi and the MawlawiyyahIslamic Spirituality: Manifestations, pp. 105-126.
      • Persian translation by Fāṭima Shāh-ḥusaynī. `Irfān-i Īrān 31-32 (1386/2007), pp. 91-125.
      • Chinese translation by Ma Xiaopei. Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities: Philosophy and Social Science 2010 (1), pp. 18-30.
    • Rumi’s Path of RealizationIqbal Review 42/4 (2001), pp. 73-88; also in Transcendent Philosophy 8 (2007), pp. 1-18.  Reprinted in Rumi’s Teachings.  Edited by Seyed Ghahreman Safavi.  London Academy of Iranian Studies, 2008, pp. 25-38
    • “Rumi’s Doctrine of Evolution.” Iqbal Review 43/2 (2002), pp. 61-81. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 16.  Also as “The Evolutionary Psychology of Jalal al-Din Rumi.”  Crafting the Intangible: Persian Literature and Mysticism.  Edited by Peter J. Chelkowski.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013, pp. 70-90.
    • “Reflections on Shams-i Tabrizi.” http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/sawyer/archive/islam/chittick.html
      • Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Ḥusayn Aṣgharī. “Khalq-rā taqlīdishān bar bād dād,” as an appendix to his translation of Science of the Cosmos (2007).
    • The Real Shams-i Tabrizi”  Beacon of Knowledge: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Edited by Mohammad H. Faghfoory.  Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2003, pp. 99-110. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 6.
    • “Me & Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi.”  The Watkins Review 12 (Autumn/Winter 2005), p. 30.
    • The Need for Need”  International Mevlānā Symposium Papers.  Istanbul: Haziran, 2010, pp. 1109-16.  Also in Rumi’s Philosophy of Love/Rumijeva Filozofija Ubavi.  Edited by Nevad Kahteran.  Sarajevo: Sahinpasic, 2007, pp. 95-104 (English), 93-103 (Bosnian).  Also Iqbal Review 48/4 (2007), pp. 49-57.
    • The Sword of La and the Fire of Love”  Mawlana Rumi Review (2) 2011, pp. 10-27.
      • Persian translation by Ḥasan Lāhūtī. Iran-Nameh 25:1-2 (2009).
    • Rumi: on Traveling the Path of the ProphetHz. Mevlânâ’da Peygamber Sevgisi. Istanbul: Nefes, 2021.
    • Rumi, Jalāl-al-Din vii.  Philosophy.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica.  August 2017.  http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/rumi-philosophy.

Ibn al-ʿArabī

The Followers of Ibn al-‘Arabī

Philosophy and Intellectual History

  • Baba Afzal (Afdal al-Din) Kashani:
    • Bābā Afzal.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 3 (1988), pp. 285-91.
    • Afdal al-Din Kashani’s Philosopher-King”  Knowledge is Light: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr.  Edited by Zailan Moris.  Chicago: ABC International, 1999, pp. 127-68.
    • The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology–Reflections on the Philosophy of Afdal al-Din KashaniMulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy.  Tehran:  Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, vol. 2, 2001, pp. 529-42.   Also in Journal of Religious Thought (Andīsha-yi dīnī, Shiraz University), 1 (1999), pp. 3-20.
    • The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology–Reflections on the Philosophy of Afdal al-Din Kashani”  Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Islamic Thought.  Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt.  Edited by Todd Lawson.  London: I. B. Tauris, 2005, pp. 274-83. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 22.
    • Baba Afdal on the Soul’s ImmortalityIshraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 1 (2010), pp. 132-40.   Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 17.
    • “Afdal al-Din Kashani: Compositions.” An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4:  From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism.  Edited by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 234-52.
    • “The Goal of Islamic Philosophy:  Reflections on the Works of Afdal al-Din Kashani.”  Sacred Web 5 (2000), pp. 17-29.
      • Albanian translation by S. Amataj. “Qëllimi i Jetës Filozofike.” Metafizika dhe Morali: Revistë filozofiko-shkencore 1:1 (2011), pp. 61-71.
      • Persian translation by Sayyid Amir Husayn Asghari. “Hadaf-i hayāt-i falsafī.” Sālik-i fikrat, edited by Muhammad Jawād Ismā`īlī et al.  Tehran:  Mu’assasa-yi Pazhūhishī-yi Hikmat wa Falsafa, 2014.
  • Mulla Sadra Shirazi:
  • More Articles
    • ʿAql.”  Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 2 (1986), pp. 195-198.
    • Dhikr.”  Encyclopedia of Religion.  New York: MacMillan, 1987, vol. 4, pp. 341-344.  Revised in Sufism (2000), Chapter 5.
    • Eschatology”  Islamic Spirituality: Foundations, ed. S.H. Nasr.  New York: Crossroad, 1987, pp. 378-409. Revised in Search (2011), Chapter 19.
    • Two Seventeenth-Century Persian Tracts on Kingship and Rulers”  Authority and Political Culture in Shi’ism.  Ed. S. Amir Arjomand.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1988, pp. 267-304.
    • Muḥsin-i Fayḍ-i Kāshānī.”  Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5 (1991), pp. 475-76.
    • Islamic CosmologyThe Encyclopedia of Cosmology, pp. 322-29.
    • Miʿrāj.”  The Oxford Enclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.  Edited by J.I. Esposito.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, vol. 3, pp. 117-18.
    • Words to the Wise”  Sufi 42 (1999), pp. 41-43.
    • The Anthropocosmic Vision in Islamic Thought”  God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives.  Edited by Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal, and Syed Nomanul Haq.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp. 125-52.  Also published in Iqbal Review 42/2 (2001), pp. 47-70.  Revised version in Science of the Cosmos (2007), Chapter 6.
    • The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology”  The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (The Library of Living Philosophers).  Edited by L. E. Hahn, R.E. Auxier, and L. W. Stone, Jr.  Chicago: Open Court, 2001, pp. 685-709.  Also in Science of the Cosmos (2007), Chapter 5.
      • Persian translation by Sayyid Amīr Ḥusayn Aṣgharī as Rijāl al-ghayb. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Musāfir, 2013, 87 pp.
    • Imagination as Theophany in IslamThe Temenos Academy Review 6 (2003), pp. 65-82.
    • The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought”  Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, pp. 205-13. Revised version in Search (2011), Chapter 20.
    • The Place of Tian-fang Xing-li in the Islamic Tradition” (in Chinese translation). Nanjing Daxue Xuebao (Journal of Nanjing University) 43/3 (2006), pp. 50-53.
    • Reason, Intellect, and Consciousness in Islamic Thought”  Reason, Spirit and the
      Sacral in the New Enlightenment: Islamic Metaphysics Revived and Recent Phenomenology of Life.  Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 11-35.
    • Abridged version as “Uncovering the Secrets of Consciousness: The Sufi Approach.” Fifth Victor Danner Memorial Lecture [pamphlet].  Bloomington: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, 2007, 22 pp.
    • The Aesthetics of Islamic Ethics”  Sharing Poetic Expressions:  Beauty, Sublime, Mysticism in Islamic and Occidental Culture. Edited by A.-T. Tymieniecka.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 3-14.
    • Why Study the Worldview” “of the Huiru? (2)”  Chinese translation in Journal of Hui Muslim Minority Studies 22.3 (2012), pp. 11-12.
    • Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick, “The Implicit Dialogue of Confucian Muslims (Chittick and Murata)”  The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue, edited by Catherine Cornille.  Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2013, pp. 438-49.
    • Āqā Muḥammad Ridā Qumsha’ī.”  An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia:  From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century.  Edited by S. H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi.  London: I.B. Tauris, 2015, pp. 489-512.

Reviews

    • Review of al-Muʿjam al-ṣūfī by Suʿād al-Ḥakīm.  Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 2 (1984), p. 99.
    • Review of Of Piety and Poetry:  The Interaction of Religion Literature in the Life and Works of Hakim Sana’i of Ghazna, by E. de Bruijn.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 105 (1985), pp. 347-50.
    • Review of Words of Ecstasy in Sufism, by C.W. Ernst.  Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 20 (1986), pp. 103-104.
    • Review of Freedom from the Self: Sufism, Meditation and Psychotherapy, by M. Shafii.  Iranian Studies 22 (1989), pp. 145-48.
    • Review of Ibn ‘Arabī’s Theory of the Perfect Man and its Place in the History of Islamic Thought, by Masataka Takeshita.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (1989), p. 707.
    • Review of Rūmī and Sufism, by E. de Vitray-Meyerovitch, and Mirror of the Intellect, by Titus Burckhardt.  International Journal of Middle East Studies 22 (1990), pp. 363-64.
    • Review of Ibn ʿArabī ou Le quête du Soufre Rouge, by Claude Addas.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 161-62.
    • Review of Nūruddīn Abdurraḥmān-i Isfarāyinī: Le Révélateur des Mystères, by Hermann Landolt.  Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991), pp. 160-61.
    • Review of Fez: City of Islam, by Titus Burckhardt.  Parabola 18/2 (1993), pp. 104-108.
    • Review of The Secrets of God’s Mystical Oneness, by Mohammad Ebn-e Monavvar; translated by John O’Kane.  The Middle East Journal 48/1 (1994), pp. 155-56
    • Review of Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, by Alexander Knysh. International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 (2001), pp. 473-75.
    • Review of The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thought of Ibn ʿArabī, by Stephen Hirtenstein; and Ibn ʿArabī: The Voyage of No Return, by Claude Addas, Islamic Studies 43 (2004), pp. 511-13.

Miscellaneous and Interviews