Call Number | 10671 |
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Day & Time Location |
W 4:10pm-6:00pm 112 Knox Hall |
Points | 4 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Wael Hallaq |
Type | SEMINAR |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | This seminar is based entirely on the primary sources of Ṣūfism, including the writings of Qushayrī, Nūrī, Muḥāsibī, Sarrāj, Ghazālī, Hujwīrī, Ibn ʿArabī, Suhrawardī, Shaʿrānī, and al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. We will explore how the leading Ṣūfīs saw themselves and the ways in which they articulated their identity. This is also articulated in the ways they organized their works and constructed the biographies of their ethical exemplars. We will study their major concepts and descriptions of their own experiences, and then theorize their subjective formations as “hermeneutics of the subject.” Inasmuch as this seminar is about how we study and view Ṣūfism, it is also as much about the various ways this conception of the world can inform a basis of a set of critiques of modernity and its epistemologies and practices. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies |
Enrollment | 6 students (10 max) as of 5:08PM Saturday, September 7, 2024 |
Subject | Middle East |
Number | GR6236 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Interfaculty |
Note | Advanced reading knowledge of Arabic is required. |
Section key | 20233MDES6236G001 |