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Journal of Islamic Studies 12, 2 May 2001, Review Ozdalga.Pdf JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES EDITOR VOLUME 12 NUMBER 2 MAY 2001 DR FARHAN AHMAO NIZAMI Magdalen College, Oxford CONTENTS CONSULTANT EDITORS ARTICLES PROFESSOR /.AIAK ISHAQ ANSARI PROFESSOR ALI A MAZRUI liiirni.Hnni.il IsI.uiiK University) Islamabad State University of New York, The Kemembrance of the Prophet in Suhrawardt's 'Awàrif Binghamton al-Ma'àrif DR MOHAMMAD AONAN AL-BAKHIT Qamar-ul Huda 129 Al al l'.ui University, Amman PROFESSOR SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR Ceorge Washington University, The Karbala Narrative: ShfT Politicai Discourse in Modem PROFESSOR JOHN L ESPOSITO Washington Iran in the 1960s and 1970s GeorgetOWn University, Washington PROFESSOR JAMES PISCATORI I'KOIISSOK M KAMAI. HASSAN Wadham College, Oxford Kamran Aghaie 151 International Islamic University, Selangor DR YUSUF AL-QARADAWI Qatar University BOOK REVIEWS PROFESSOR JAAFAR SHEIKH IDRIS Institnte of Islamic and PROFESSOR HASSANAIN MOHAMMAD RABIAF 1. G. R. Hawting: THE IDEA OE 1DOTATRY AND THE EMERGENCE OE ISLAM: FROM POLEM1C TO HISTORY. By Yasin Dutton. 177 Arabie Sciences in America, Fairfax University of Cairo 2. Mawil Izzi Dien: THE ENVIRONME.NTAL D1MENSIONS OF ISLAM. By DR RICHARD C REPP Harfiyah Abdel Haleem. 179 PROFESSOR EKMEI.EDDIN IHSANOGLU St Cross College, Oxford 3. Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh (eds): RELIGION AND Research Centre for Islamic History, CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM. By James Montgomery. 182 Art and Culture, Istanbul PROFESSOR FRANCIS ROBINSON 4. Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Mark R. Cohen, Sasson Somekh, and Sidney H. Griffith Royal Holloway, University of London (eds): THE MAJLIS: 1NTE.RRE.LIG10US ENCOUNTERS IN MEDIEVAL PROFESSOR YUZO ITAGAKI PROFESSOR A I SABRA ISLAM. By Stoyanka Kenderova. 184 University of Tokyo Harvard University 5. Gerald T. Elmore: ISLAMIC SAINTHOOD IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME: 1BNA AL-'ARABI'S BOOK OF THE FABULOUS GRYPHON. By Ian Richard PROFESSOR WADAU KADI PROFESSOR ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL Netton. 187 University of Chicago Harvard University 6. Peter Avery: FARIDU'D-DIN 'ATTÀR: THE SPEECH OF THE BIRDS (MANTIQU'T-TAIR). By Annemarie Schimmel. 188 PROFESSOR WIEFERD F MADELUNG 7. Franklin D. Lewis: RUMI, PAST AND PRESENT, EAST AND WEST: THE St John's College, Oxford LIFE, TEACHING AND POETRY OF JALÀL AL-D1N RUMI. By Gudrun Schubert. 189 8. Alexander D. Knysh: ISLAMIC MYST1CISM: A SHORT H/.STORY. By Gerald Elmore. 191 9. Ian Richard Netton: SUFI RITUAL: THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE. By Arthur F. Buehler. 194 Typeset and Printed by The Charlesworth Group, Huddersfield, UK 10. Elisabeth Ozdalga (ed.): NAQSHBANDIS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA: CHANCE AND CONT1NU1TY. By Thomas Dahnhardt. 195 11. Roshdi Rashed and Jean Jolivet: OEUVRES PHILOSOPHIQUES ET SCIENFITIQUES D'AL KIND1. VOL. 2: MÉTAPHYSIQUE ET ( :< OMOLOGIE. By Majid Fakhry. 197 12. Robert Gleave: 1NEV1TABI.E DOUBT: TWO THEORIES OF SHl'T IIIRSIPRUDF.NCE. By L. Clarke. 198 II CONTENTS Journal of Islamic Studies 12:2 (2001) pp. 129-150 1 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2001 13. Haim Gerber: ISLAMIC LAW AND CULTURE 1600-1840. By Hussein Hassan. 203 14. Leif Manger (ed.): MUSL1M D1VERS1TY: LOCAI. ISLAM IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS. By Mohammad Talib. 207 THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE PROPHET 15. Reuven Amitai-Preiss and David O. Morgan (eds): THE MONGOL EMPIRE AND 1TS LEGACY. By Svat Soucek. 210 IN SUHRAWARDÌ'S 'AWÀRIF AL-MA'ÀRIF 16. Dick Douwes: THE OTTOMANS IN SYR1A: A HISTORY OF JUSTICE AND OPPRESSION By Kate Fleet. 214 17. Svat Soucek: A HISTORY OF 1NNER ASIA. By Benedek Péri. 217 QAMAR-UL HUDA 18. P. M. Holt: THE SUDAN OF THE THREE NILES: THE FUNJ CHRONICLE Boston College 910-128811504-1871. By Shamil Jeppie. 219 19. Ingvar Svanberg: CONTEMPORARY KAZAKS: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL It is said that tasawwuf is about dddb, therefore, for every level PERSPECTIVES. By Timur K. Beisembiev. 221 20. Giampaolo R. Capisani: THE HANDBOOK OF CENTRAL ASIA: A of tasawwuf there is a particular form of àdàb for it. For the person COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF THE NEW REPUBLICS. By Shirin Akiner. 224 who adheres to àdàb, [he] will learn the path of excellence. For 21. Michael Dillon: CHINA'S MUSL1M HU1 COMMUNITY: MIGRATION, those who do not practice àdàb, [they] are far away from achieving SETTLEMENT AND SECTS. David D. Wang: CLOUDS OVER TIANSHEN: a high level of tasawwuf} ESSAYS ON SOCIAL D1STURBANCE IN XINJIANG IN THE 1940s. By Iftikhar H. Malik. 227 22. Paul E. Losensky: WELCOMING F1GHÀNI: ÌMITATION AND POET1C INDIVIDUAL1TY IN THE SAFAV1D-MUGHAL GHAZAL. By Annemarie INTRODUCTION Schimmel. 230 23. George Micheli and Mark Zebrowski: THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY Karl Mannheim has argued that presenting one's ideas is a way of OF INDIA: ARCH1TECTURE AND ART OF THE DECCAN SULTANATES. By Som Prakash Verma. 232 connecting to past thinkers, of seeking (what he refers to as) a com• 24. Robert Hillenbrand: ISLAMIC ART AND ARCH1TECTURE: WORLD OE mon location in the social and historical process of creating a ART SER1ES. By Ruba Kana'an. 235 particular world-view or mentality.2 For Sufi shaykhs, like Shaykh 25. Godfrey Goodwin: TOPKAP1 PALACE: AN 1LLUSTRATED GUIDE TO 1TS Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardl (d. 1234), testing his ideas against LIFE AND PERSONAL1T1ES. By Geoffrey Lewis. 239 past figures was a process of locating himself within the Islamic 26. Maryam Poya: WOMEN, WORK AND 1SLAMISM: IDEOLOGY AND tradition and with what was known or understood at that time. RESISTANCE. By Harfiyah Abdel Haleem. 239 This paper examines his Sufi beliefs and how they were associated 27. Shaharyar M. Khan: THE BEGUMS OF BHOPAL: A DYNASTY OF WOMEN RULERS IN RA] INDIA. By Barbara D. Metcalf. 242 with a specific social group, in this case the Suhrawardiyya Sufi 28. Michael Hudson (ed.): MIDDLE EAST DILEMMA: THE POL1T1CS AND order, and with the Prophet. ECON1M1CS OF ARAB INTEGRATION. By Emma Murphy. 244 Shaykh 'Umar al-Suhrawardl, like many other distinguished Sufi 29. Hamdi A. Hassan: THE IRAQ1 INVASION OF KUWAIT: RELIGION, thinkers, tried to bring about a deeper theological understanding in IDENT1TY AND OTHERNESS IN THE ANALYSIS OF WAR AND CONFL1CT. By Joseph A. Kechichian. 247 the tasawwuf tradition by analyzing the Qur'àn, the hadiths of 30. R. Stephen Humphreys: BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE: THE MIDDLE the Prophetic tradition, and the texts of past Sufi shaykhs. This EAST IN A TROUBLED AGE. By James Piscatori. 249 paper studies the intellectual aspects of the Suhrawardiyya tariqa, 31. Farid El-Khazen: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE STATE OF LEBANON. By focusing on how al-Suhrawardl's ideas enable us to understand Jens Hanssen. 250 the attitudes, hierarchies, psychology, culture, and religious values 32. Robert Dankoff and Robert Elsie: F.VLIYA CEI.EB1 IN ALBANIA (KOSOVO, of the members, and in particular how his understanding of the MONTENEGRO, OHR1D). By H. T. Norris. 253 Prophet defined the tariqa. His Sufi manual was a major source of 33. Tim Judah: KOSOVO: WAR AND REVENGE. By M. Siikru Hanioglu. 256 34. M. Umer Chapra: THE FUTURE OF ECONOM1CS: AN ISLAMIC spiritual discipline for successive disciples who moved eastward PERSPECTIVE. By Rodney Wilson. 257 from Iraq, such as Bahà ai-Din Zakariyya, Jalàl ai-Din TabrizI, and 35. Masoud Kavoossi: THE GLOBALISATION OF BUSINESS AND THE MIDDLE EAST: OPPORTUN1T1ES AND CONSTRAINTS. By Rodney 1 'Awàrif ai-Ma'arif, 254. Wilson. 260 Karl Mannheim, 'The Problem of Generation' in Essays on the Sociology of BOOKS RECE1VED 264 Knourledge (London, 1952), 276-85. BOOK REVIEWS 194 BOOK REVIEWS 195 Sufi Ritual: The Parallel Universe of the Ni'matullahis support Netton's alienation thesis is a matter rhat I am By IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond: Curzon, 2000. Pp. xi, 219. Price not in a position to comment upon. PB £14.99. 0-7007-1254-2. Unless a teacher wanted to spend considerable rime correcting and con- textualizing the material in rhis book, it would be unsuitable for a course This short monograph claims rhat Sufi ritual is a parallel universe and rhat on Sufism. Nerron has virtually ignored Naqshbandi scholarship over rhe these Sufi rituals in turn lead ro a fundamental alienation (ix). The bulk of last ten years (like orher non-English sources, Meier was cired bur never the text examines ritual (dhikr, santa', muràqaba, suhba, wird) in rhe used). In addition, the sources cited by Netton are used in an uncrirical Ni'marullahi and Naqshbandi lineages, ending in a brief mulri-perspecrive manner. For example, ro position Shaykh Nazim as a typical representative discussion (theology, phenomenology, anthropology, semiotics). Although of the Naqshbandi tradition is like having Reverend Moon speak for the Chrisrian tradition. No mention is made of the Ni'matullahis being an there is a bibliography of originai sources (Arabie, Persian, Turkish, Sabaen), explicitly Twelver Shl'T lineage as a 'Yà 'Ali' (158) indicates. This is yet the acrual sources used are almost ali in English translation. The few another example of Sufi pracrices being embedded in the respective exceptions have not been consulted and there is no indication in the book that mainstream tradition. Methodologically, the applications of phenomenology, the author used anything but English-language sources. theology, semiotics, and anthropology are quite uneven. Ir is unforrunate that Netton has not kept up with recent scholarship on Sufism written in English. Cari Ernst in his Shambhala Guide to Sufism has Professor Netton entices the reader with a multi-faceted discussion in the cogently shown that one orientalist misconception has been to separate the introduction, where he briefly discusses the ambiguous situation of Muslims practice of Sufism from that of mainstream Islam. Reading of rhe primary in Brirain and adeptly places Sufism in that context. Throughour the book texts (mostly written in Persian for rhe rwo Sufi lineages studied) and/or his creative use of the Rule of St Benedict juxtaposed with Sufi ritual witnessing Sufi rituals over a period of time easily demonstrates that Sufi demonstrates a fruitful (and valid) parallel tradition.
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