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Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi

Year 2020, Volume: 31 Issue: 1, 179 - 183, 30.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017

Abstract

The present book is a revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis, submitted and defended at the University of Copenhagen in 2016. The book starts with an introduction and continues with four chapters, titled respectively “God’s Unknowability: Tanzīh as Neoplatonic Via Negativa”, “The Theophanic Creator-God: The Muʿill as One and Multiple”, “The Experience of Divine Love, Creation, and Cosmology”, “The Neoplatonic Role of the Primordial Muḥammad in Ḥallāǧ’s Cosmology”. The book is finalized with a conclusion which summarizes all the chapters. As the above-mentioned chapter headings already stress, the introductory section announces to the readers the author’s strong and persistent stance on placing the writings of Ḥallāj’s in the Neoplatonist backdrop. As the author explicitly states, this is a book to “analyse and reconstruct Ḥallāj’s sufi thought through a Neoplatonic lens” and to try and present Ḥallāj’s own version of Neoplatonism. The author opposes those who have studied Ḥallāj’s texts in the Quranic and Islamic setting and have allegedly “neglected the Hellenised context in his mysticism” (p. 2), including the writer of the main work in the Ḥallāj studies, i.e., Louis Massignon.1 This is of course to set aside all the classical Muslim pioneers of theoretical mysticism after Ḥallāj, such as Ibn Arabi, Qūnawī, Dāwud Qayṣarī, Mulla Fanārī, Ruzbihan Baqlī, Mulla Ṣadrā etc., none of whom saw in Ḥallāj a representative of the Arabized falsafa in Islam, as they did in the case of
Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā.

References

  • The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi

Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi

Year 2020, Volume: 31 Issue: 1, 179 - 183, 30.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017

Abstract

The present book is a revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis, submitted and defended at the University of Copenhagen in 2016. The book starts with an introduction
and continues with four chapters, titled respectively “God’s Unknowability: Tanzīh as Neoplatonic Via Negativa”, “The Theophanic Creator-God: The Muʿill as One and Multiple”,
“The Experience of Divine Love, Creation, and Cosmology”, “The Neoplatonic Role of the Primordial Muḥammad in Ḥallāǧ’s Cosmology”. The book is finalized with a conclusion which summarizes all the chapters. As the above-mentioned chapter headings already stress, the introductory section announces to the readers the author’s strong and persistent
stance on placing the writings of Ḥallāj’s in the Neoplatonist backdrop. As the author
explicitly states, this is a book to “analyse and reconstruct Ḥallāj’s sufi thought through a Neoplatonic lens” and to try and present Ḥallāj’s own version of Neoplatonism. The author
opposes those who have studied Ḥallāj’s texts in the Quranic and Islamic setting and have allegedly “neglected the Hellenised context in his mysticism” (p. 2), including the writer
of the main work in the Ḥallāj studies, i.e., Louis Massignon.1 This is of course to set aside all the classical Muslim pioneers of theoretical mysticism after Ḥallāj, such as Ibn Arabi,
Qūnawī, Dāwud Qayṣarī, Mulla Fanārī, Ruzbihan Baqlī, Mulla Ṣadrā etc., none of whom saw in Ḥallāj a representative of the Arabized falsafa in Islam, as they did in the case of
Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā.

References

  • The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Book Review and Criticism
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Veysel Kaya This is me 0000-0003-0057-3995

Publication Date June 30, 2020
Submission Date May 27, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 31 Issue: 1

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APA Kaya, V. (2020). Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi. Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 31(1), 179-183. https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017
AMA Kaya V. Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi. darulfunun ilahiyat. June 2020;31(1):179-183. doi:10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017
Chicago Kaya, Veysel. “Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr Al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi”. Darulfunun Ilahiyat 31, no. 1 (June 2020): 179-83. https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017.
EndNote Kaya V (June 1, 2020) Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi. darulfunun ilahiyat 31 1 179–183.
IEEE V. Kaya, “Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi”, darulfunun ilahiyat, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 179–183, 2020, doi: 10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017.
ISNAD Kaya, Veysel. “Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr Al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi”. darulfunun ilahiyat 31/1 (June 2020), 179-183. https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017.
JAMA Kaya V. Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi. darulfunun ilahiyat. 2020;31:179–183.
MLA Kaya, Veysel. “Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr Al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi”. Darulfunun Ilahiyat, vol. 31, no. 1, 2020, pp. 179-83, doi:10.26650/di.2020.31.1.0017.
Vancouver Kaya V. Early Philosophical Ṣūfism; The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāǧ, Saer El-Jaichi. darulfunun ilahiyat. 2020;31(1):179-83.