Sufism Amongst the Cameleers – By Abu Bakr Sirajuddin Cook

This talk aims to introduce the Cameleer manuscripts in Australia and highlight their adherence to Sufism. After an introduction to the importance of the Cameleers in Australia and the difficulties of the existing assertions of Sufism amongst the Cameleers. We will provide an overview of the existent Cameleer manuscripts which, despite their rarity, provide an important yet unexamined insight into the spirituality of the Cameleers. The discussion will then explore the elements of Sufism within the manuscripts and how this indicates the strongest evidence of Sufism amongst the Cameleers to date.

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ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī’s Laṭāʾif al-Minan and the Virtue of Sincere Immodesty

The essay below analyzes the substance and rhetoric of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī’s (d. 973/1565) book Laṭāʾif al-minan wa-l-akhlāq (Subtle Blessings and Morals). While giving particular attention to the text’s introduction and concluding sections, in my analysis here I use the Laṭāʾif as a case study to illustrate how Suf authors like al-Shaʿrānī attempted to relieve the tension between the antipodal Suf virtues of, on the one hand, concealing one’s spiritual state to preserve the purity of one’s intention and, on the other, speaking openly about God’s blessings upon one as a demonstration of gratitude to God and a means to guide others along the Suf Path. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī was an Egyptian Suf and legal thinker who lived in Cairo during the fnal years of the Mamlūk Sultanate and the frst half-century of Ottoman rule in Egypt. He is best remembered today for his writings in comparative Islamic law (ikhtilāf al-madhāhib), Suf ethics, and Suf hagiography. Several of his texts would generate controversy during his lifetime owing to what he claimed

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“Ethics of Selfhood and Human Flourishing in Islamic Thought.” In Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, edited by Mustafa Shah. New York: Oxford University Press, completed and forthcoming [2026]

The present study investigates the ethics of selfhood and human flourishing in Islamic thought, which is intertwined with a distinct moral and spiritual view of human nature. Drawing on the repository of various texts and authors in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and theology, and Islamic ethical literature, this article argues that it is in terms of the realization of one’s true nature that the goal of flourishing or the process of moral and spiritual perfection is best understood. Moreover, in Islamic ethics of human flourishing, the realization of one’s true self depends on living an ethical life that combines both theoretical reason/intellect and spiritual practices.

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Review of Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam & Akbarian Sufism (Dunja Rašić)

This book makes a unique contribution as a foundational source on jinn and jinnealogy and as an encyclopedic reference on jinn doppelgangers (quranāʾ) in particular. It succeeds in the author’s aim to discuss quranāʾ in the context of their jinn species, their human relationships, and their place in Akbarian spiritual cosmology. Furthermore, Bedeviled provides a rich, engaging work that illuminates the diversity of thought and practices surrounding jinn within and beyond Akbarian Sufism in the medieval Islamicate world. I would recommend it to graduate students and scholars interested in jinn, Akbarian Sufism, or mysticism and occult studies more broadly, and to those curious about supernatural beings in Islamic imagination. It will also be of interest to those who seek to better understand Ibn ʿArabī’s works and teachings. Bedeviled is

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Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in the Works of Shaykh Dan Tafa – Oludamini Ogunnaike

This article explores five remarkable works by ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muṣṭafā (known as “Dan Tafa”) (1804–1864), a 19th-century West African Sufi scholar of the Sokoto Caliphate, to examine the ways in which dreams were (and are) theorized in the unique synthesis of Sufi, occult, philosophical/medical, theological, and exegetical disciplines that characterized discourse about dreams and dream interpretation in Muslim West Africa on the eve of colonial conquest. Concluding with a brief discussion of what these texts can tell us about Dan Tafa’s conceptions of cosmology, knowledge, and the human self, and the importance thereof for African and Islamic intellectual history, we will also consider the potential relevance of Dan Tafa’s work for the importance and onto-epistemological status of dreams in contemporary West African Sufi communities and attempt to understand why dreams have been and remain so important in these traditions.

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The Shādhilīya : Foundational Teachings and Practices – Lahouari Ramzi Taleb

This paper explores the spiritual chain (silsila), foundational doctrines and practices of the Shādhilīya Sufi order, notably, their Qur’anic and prophetic epistemology, the doctrine of sainthood, spiritual cultivation and Sharia-centered discourse among it prominent representatives.

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The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt w/ Mohammad Rustom

In this episode, we discuss Mohammad Rustom’s new book, Inrushes of the Heart, which delves into the life and thought of the Muslim philosopher and Sufi master ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī. The conversation explores the book’s insights into ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt’s original teachings on topics such as God, human agency, and spiritual practice.

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LA NARRACIÓNCOMO PEDAGOGÍAFILOSÓFICA:EL CASO DE SUHRAWARDĪ

Entre los escritos de Šihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī (m. 587/1191),fundador de la Escuela de la Iluminación y figura clave de la filosofía islámica post-aviceniana, se encuentran una serie de relatos visionarios. En el contexto de cada una de estas narrativas, Suhrawardī emplea numerosas imágenes simbólicas para transmitir varias ideas clave que marcan su filosofía. Dado su lenguaje concreto, estos relatos añaden una dimensión de profundidad que no es fácilmente discernible en las obras filosóficas estrictamente hablando de Suhrawardī, dada la dependencia de estas últimas de un lenguaje abstracto.

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Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in the Works of Shaykh Dan Tafa – Oludamini Ogunnaike

This article explores five remarkable works (currently in unpublished manuscript form) by ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muṣṭafā (known as “Dan Tafa”) (1804–1864), a 19th-century West African Sufi scholar of the Sokoto Caliphate, to examine the ways in which dreams were (and are) theorized in the unique synthesis of Sufi, occult, philosophi- cal/medical, theological, and exegetical disciplines that characterized discourse about dreams and dream interpretation in Muslim West Africa on the eve of colonial con- quest. Concluding with a brief discussion of what these texts can tell us about Dan Tafa’s conceptions of cosmology, knowledge, and the human self, and the importance thereof for African and Islamic intellectual history, we will also consider the potential relevance of Dan Tafa’s work for the importance and onto-epistemological status of dreams in contemporary West African Sufi communities and attempt to understand why dreams have been and remain so important in these traditions.

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What Muslim Scholars Talk About When They Talk About Love – Marion Katz

Scholars often assume that love is a concern alien to Islamic legal discourses. However, the composition of love poetry has been a core cultural competence of elite Muslims throughout the premodern history of Islamicate societies. In fact, love was a preoccupation across disciplines and genres. This article examines a work on love by an important if controversial fourteenth-century jurist, Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymīya. Ibn Taymīya associates love with obedience to God and with solidarity among the believers. He depicts love as cognitively based; while human beings are naturally inclined to various forms of infatuation, love can be redirected to its proper objects (primarily God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other believers) through correct religious instruction. While this understanding of love may seem to contrast with the more universalistic approach popularly associated with Sufism, it resonates with recent scholarship outside of Islamic studies that demonstrates the role of love in sustaining boundaries and hierarchy.

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Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī

Analyzing the intersection between Sufism and philosophy, this volume is a sweeping examination of the mystical philosophy of Muḥyī-l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 637/1240), one of the most influential and original thinkers of the Islamic world. This book systematically covers Ibn al-ʿArabī’s ontology, theology, epistemology, teleology, spiritual anthropology and eschatology. While philosophy uses deductive reasoning to discover the fundamental nature of existence and Sufism relies on spiritual experience, it was not until the school of Ibn al-ʿArabī that philosophy and Sufism converged into a single framework by elaborating spiritual doctrines in precise philosophical language. Contextualizing the historical development of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s school, the work draws from the earliest commentators of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s oeuvre, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī (d. ca. 730/1330) and Dawūd al-Qayṣarī (d. 751/1350), but also draws from the medieval heirs of his doctrines Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī (d. 787/1385), the pivotal intellectual and mystical figure of Persia who recast philosophical Sufism within the framework of Twelver Shīʿism and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), the key figure in the dissemination of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s ideas in the Persianate world as well as the Ottoman Empire, India, China and East Asia via Central Asia. Lucidly written and comprehensive in scope, with careful treatments of the key authors, Philosophical Sufism is a highly accessible introductory text for students and researchers interested in Islam, philosophy, religion and the Middle East.

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