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Recasting Qushayrī’s Risāla in Fifteenth-Century Egypt

Recasting Qushayrī’s Risāla in Fifteenth-Century Egypt Abstract The scholarly works of the Egyptian Sufi and chief qadi Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926/1520) often reflect a late-medieval Muslim trend of subtle intellectual innovation—that is, innovation that cloaks itself in the received tradition while often diverging markedly from it. It is particularly his celebrated Iḥkām al-dalāla ʿalā taḥrīr al-Risāla , a commentary on ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī’s (d. 465/1072) Risāla in Sufism, that embodies such an intellectual trend quite starkly. This study examines the Iḥkām to understand how Anṣārī adapted an eleventh-century Nishapuri handbook in Sufism to his own fifteenth-century Egyptian context. It argues that Anṣārī’s redirecting of Qushayrī’s Risāla occurs through three broad interpretative techniques: a recasting in content, a recasting in form, and a recasting in tone and objective of the original text. After exploring these techniques in depth, a few larger implications for the field of commentary theory are noted in a concluding section. A preliminary consideration of Anṣārī’s biography, particularly those biographical details related to his scholarly training and career, his background in Sufism, and the writing of his Iḥkām , appears as a preface to the textual analysis that comprises the second half of the study. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Sufi Studies Brill

Recasting Qushayrī’s Risāla in Fifteenth-Century Egypt

Journal of Sufi Studies , Volume 2 (1): 93 – Jan 1, 2013

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/22105956-12341243
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Abstract

Abstract The scholarly works of the Egyptian Sufi and chief qadi Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926/1520) often reflect a late-medieval Muslim trend of subtle intellectual innovation—that is, innovation that cloaks itself in the received tradition while often diverging markedly from it. It is particularly his celebrated Iḥkām al-dalāla ʿalā taḥrīr al-Risāla , a commentary on ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī’s (d. 465/1072) Risāla in Sufism, that embodies such an intellectual trend quite starkly. This study examines the Iḥkām to understand how Anṣārī adapted an eleventh-century Nishapuri handbook in Sufism to his own fifteenth-century Egyptian context. It argues that Anṣārī’s redirecting of Qushayrī’s Risāla occurs through three broad interpretative techniques: a recasting in content, a recasting in form, and a recasting in tone and objective of the original text. After exploring these techniques in depth, a few larger implications for the field of commentary theory are noted in a concluding section. A preliminary consideration of Anṣārī’s biography, particularly those biographical details related to his scholarly training and career, his background in Sufism, and the writing of his Iḥkām , appears as a preface to the textual analysis that comprises the second half of the study.

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Journal of Sufi StudiesBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

Keywords: ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī; al-Risāla al-Qushayriyya ; commentary; commentary theory; Egyptian Sufism; juridical Sufism; Mamlūks; ninth/fifteenth century; Shāfiʿi law; Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī

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