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Repentance and the Return to God - Couverture souple

Khalil, Atif

 
9781438469126: Repentance and the Return to God
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1438469128 ISBN 13 : 9781438469126
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.

This book offers the first extensive treatment in a European language of tawba in Islam. Conventionally translated as "repentance," tawba includes the broader sense of returning to God. Khalil examines this wider notion in the early period of Sufism with a particular focus on the formative years of the tradition between Muḥāsibī and Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī. Beginning with an extensive survey of the semantic field of the term as outlined in Arabic lexicography, Khalil offers a detailed analysis of the concept in Muslim scripture. He then examines tawba as a complex psychological process involving interior conversion and a complete, unwavering commitment to the spiritual life. The ideas of a number of prominent figures from the first few centuries of Islam are used to illuminate the historical development of tawba and its role in early praxis-oriented Sufism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Atif Khalil is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and the coeditor (with Mohammed Rustom and Kazuyo Murata) of In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought, by William C. Chittick, also published by SUNY Press.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438469128
ISBN 13 
9781438469126
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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