Early modern trends in Islamic theology 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and his network of scholarship (studies and texts) Edited by Lejla Demiri and Samuela Pagani.

"The first seeds of this volume were planted at the three-day international conference dedicated to the study of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī 's legacy, held at the Centre for Islamic Theology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, on 4-6 September 2014"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-451) and index.

Introduction : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and the intellectual and religious history of the 17th- 18th century world of Islam / Lejla Demiri, Samuela Pagani -- 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, the doctrine of the unity of being and the beginnings of the Arab renaissance / Bakri Aladdin -- Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ fī ḥall kalimāt al-Fuṣūṣ : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's commentary on Ibn 'Arabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam / Denis Gril -- Some of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's Kalām writings / Jawad Anwar Qureshi -- The relationship between Kalām and Akbarian theology in the thought of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī / Steven Styer -- The legacy of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī and its influence on the writings of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī / Atallah S. Copty -- Words in action : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī as a jurist / Astrid Meier -- 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's commentary on Birgivî Mehmed Efendi's al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya : early modern Ottoman debates on Bid'a fī l-'āda / Katharina Ivanyi -- Reading Mehmed Birgivî with 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī : contested interpretations of Birgivî's al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya in the 17th-18th century Ottoman Empire / Jonathan Parkes Allen -- Timeless typologies and new individualities : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, Niyâzî-i Misrî and the Sufi theory of sainthood in the early modern Ottoman world / Samuela Pagani -- 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and Abū l-Mawāhib al-Ḥanbalī : scholarly networking in Damascus and beyond / John O. Voll -- Nābulusian Sufism in the Ottoman realm : the case of Şeyhülislam Mustafa âşir Efendi / Erdal Toprakyaran -- Confounding dichotomies : elite and popular, spiritual and secular, pious and joyous in the travel writing of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī / Steve Tamari -- 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's spiritual journey (Riḥla) to the Beqaa valley / Samir Mahmoud -- The art of forgetfulness : 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nābulusī on memory and morality / Nir Shafir -- Islamic science and cosmology in the post-Copernican period : reflections on 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's views / Samer Akkach -- What makes us human? : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's reflections on human nature / Serkan Ince -- Badhl al-iḥsān fī taḥqīq ma'nā l-insān -- 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's treatise in defence of Niyâzî-i Misrî / Samuela Pagani --Al-Ḥāmil fī l-falak wa-1-maḥmūl fī l-fulk fī iṭlāq al-nubuwwa wa-1-risāla wa-1-khilāfa wa-l-mulk -- Death as an existential quality (Amr Wujūdī) : 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's commentary on Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī's poetry / Lejla Demiri -- Al-Kawkab al-mutalālī sharḥ qaṣīdat al-Ghazzālī / Lejla Demiri.

The present volume is dedicated to the study of al-Ghanī al-Nabulusī (1641-1731), an outstanding religious scholar, sufi thinker and man of letters from 17th-18th-century Ottoman Syria. With its focus on a careful examination of Nabulusī's multifaceted and enriching textual corpus, the present volume offers an in-depth analysis of both his thought and his intellectual milieu. The essays presented here reflect the wide spectrum of Nabulusī's interests, from scriptural exegesis to theology, from jurisprudence to mysticism, from philosophy to poetry, ethics and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary character of the present volume contributes to a better appreciation of Nabulusī's impact on the diversified intellectual and religious history of the 17th-18th-century world of Islam, described until recently as a time of 'stagnation' and 'decline'.

Contributions in English; 2 in Arabic.