Araştırma Makalesi

The Barzakh of Ecstacy

Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2 14 Aralık 2022
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The Barzakh of Ecstacy

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This article examines the ways in which Syrian poet and artist Huda Naamani expresses the inexpressible of ecstasy. In a Sufi epic poem entitled Kitāb al-wajd wa al-tawājud (The Book of Ecstasy and its Indicators), she acknowledges the impossibility of recording the ecstatic experience in words on a page. The only medium open to such a semantic articulation is tawājud or the indicators, feeble linguistic signposts to the ineffable. Beyond tawājud is the wordlessness of the experience of the silence of God. Invoking the Qur’ānic term barzakh, a state in which two elements behave as one, she uses sound and color to draw the reader into an experience that cannot be described but only intuited and felt. In her modernist, mystical lyrics she creates the soundscape of dhikr rituals. The staccato repetitions and the arrangements of letters on the page compel the reader to recite and hear the sounds of the words beyond their lexical meanings. In so doing, the reader is invited to share in the creative act. Interspersed in the pages of this magical, confessional text are Huda’s cloud paintings that document her ecstatic experience from explosion into the barzakh of ecstasy to fanā’ or dissolution in the divine. Hers is an idiosyncratic imagining of the encounter with the divine.

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  1. Cited Works • Ruzbihan Baqli 1997 (Carl Ernst trans.) The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master Chapel Hill: Parvardigar Press
  2. • William C. Chittick 1989 The Sufi Path of Knowledge Albany: SUNY Press
  3. • miriam cooke 2014 Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf Berkeley: University of California Press
  4. • Jacques Derrida 1993 Khora Paris: Galilee
  5. • Mansur al-Hallaj 2018 (Carl Ernst trans.) Poems of a Sufi Martyr Evanston: Northwestern UP
  6. • Toshihiko Izutsu 1983 Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts Berkeley: University of California Press
  7. • Fatemeh Keshavarz 1998 Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi Columbia: University of South Carolina Press
  8. • Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Mystical Dimensions of Islam Chapel Hill: UNC Press

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Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Miriam Cooke *
United States

Yayımlanma Tarihi

14 Aralık 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

29 Ağustos 2022

Kabul Tarihi

14 Kasım 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Cooke, M. (2022). The Barzakh of Ecstacy. Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi, 1(2), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27
AMA
1.Cooke M. The Barzakh of Ecstacy. TAED. 2022;1(2):17-28. doi:10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27
Chicago
Cooke, Miriam. 2022. “The Barzakh of Ecstacy”. Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi 1 (2): 17-28. https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27.
EndNote
Cooke M (01 Aralık 2022) The Barzakh of Ecstacy. Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi 1 2 17–28.
IEEE
[1]M. Cooke, “The Barzakh of Ecstacy”, TAED, c. 1, sy 2, ss. 17–28, Ara. 2022, doi: 10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27.
ISNAD
Cooke, Miriam. “The Barzakh of Ecstacy”. Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi 1/2 (01 Aralık 2022): 17-28. https://doi.org/10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27.
JAMA
1.Cooke M. The Barzakh of Ecstacy. TAED. 2022;1:17–28.
MLA
Cooke, Miriam. “The Barzakh of Ecstacy”. Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi, c. 1, sy 2, Aralık 2022, ss. 17-28, doi:10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27.
Vancouver
1.Miriam Cooke. The Barzakh of Ecstacy. TAED. 01 Aralık 2022;1(2):17-28. doi:10.32739/ustad.2022.2.27