Mysticism in the Muslim world: theory and practices

 

Abduh Muhammad (Mohammed V University, Rabat) Two different views on the practice of Sufi treatises in Morocco.

Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad N. (Ain Shams University) Hinduism and its role in the formation of Muslim mysticism.

Ashraf, A. Amasha (al-Azhar University, Dumyat) Sufism in the Muslim World: theory and practice 

Zaım Khenchelaoui (Centre of Prehistoric, Anthropological and Historical Research, Algiers)  Futuwwa in Sufism: between honour and recognition of other

S.A. Abdulkarimov (Moscow) Sufism in culture of corporal practices for Muslims: history and modern times

Muhammad Abdu (Muhammad Khamis University, Rabat) Two visions on the practice of Sufi tariqat in Morocco

Pavel V. Basharin (Russian State University for the Humanities, the Mardjani Foundation, Moscow) Exegesis of the Qur’anic qaba qawsayn in the tradition of Muslim Mysticism

Olga A. Nehorosheva (The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow) Analysis of Sufi terminology on basis of the Epistle on Sufism by al-Qushayri

Mohammad Reza Zaker, Farangis Darvishi (Islamic Azad University, Kazeroun, Iran) Study of the concept of Asceticism in the Islamic mysticism: Based on the mystics texts

Fariba Raeisi (Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran ) The Foundation of Aesthetic in Gnostical Literature

Dr. Qudrat Elchibekov (Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage, Dushanbe) Sufi manuscripts collections from Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of sciences of the Republic of Tadjikistan

Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Makhachkala) Shu‘ayb al-Baghini’s “Tabaqat al-khwajagan al-naqshbandiyya” as a monument of the hagiograpical genre

Rezeda R. Safi ullina-Al-Ansi (The Mardjani Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan) Publications of Sufi books among Tatars in the beginning of the 19th and early 20th century as significant source for studies of Sufi history of Muslims in Russia

Shodimuhammad Z. Sufi zadeh (Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage, Dushanbe)Formation of meanings in Sufi poetical tradition

Zohra Alieva (The Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Baku, Azerbaijan) Nasimi’s Sufi sm

Konstantin S. Vasiltsov (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg) On Afzal al-Din Kashani’s Sufi poetry

Aida Shahlar Gasimova (Baku State University, Azerbaijan) Qur’anic Symbolism and Depiction of (the Parts of) the Face in the Classical Azeri-Turkish Sufi Poetry

Negar Ozve Aminian (Ferdowsi University, Iran) Translation of the book “Reading Mystical Lyric” with an analytic criticism

Abdurrahman Güzel (Başkent Üniversitesi, Аnkara, Turkey) Orta Asya’da tükr tasavvuf edebiyatinın başlangıcı ve başlıca cileri

 

Description of the panel

Mysticism in the Muslim world is a complex problem. In spite of diffused opinion, this term includes not only Sufism, but also elements of mysticism and mystical dimension of Shi‘ism, Isma‘ilism, Hurufism etc.

The extensive studies of phenomenon of mystical dimension in any culture reveal two key components. There are theory as fundament and practice as realization of provided rules. Usually these two components were studied separately. But complex approach to this problem could promote a view to any mystical phenomenon as a single whole. For example, history of the Sufi tariqat grounds on this synthesis.

Examination of mystical sources reveals the different relations between theoretical scientific reasoning and practices. Any theoretical assertion in mystical area supposes practical dimension. In this case, the main problem for mystics was the attempt of verbal expression for unexpressive mode (i.e. words of ecstasy). Thereby the practice rules guides any mystic from the terrestrial Law to the divine Reality, to God Himself.

The panel plans to focus upon the problems of written sources (particularly, manuscripts), i.e. theoretical scientific treatises and mystical fictions from the Early Islam times up to modern period, theoretical doctrines and philosophical ideas of mystical texts, analysis of various mystical practices of the Muslim world, historical genesis and development of mystical movements and relations between them, contacts of Muslim movements and doctrines with non-Muslim environment (particularly, other mystical traditions).

Special attention will be paid to difference between genesis and typology of mystical practices.

Moderator of the section: P.V. Basharin (Russian State University for the Humanities; Mardjani Foundation, Moscow, Russia)