E-book
Repentance and the return to God : tawba in early Sufism
Record details
- ISBN: 1438469136
- ISBN: 9781438469133
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
remote - Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The semantics of tawba. Is tawba "repentance"? a lexical and semantic survey -- The internal structure and semantic field of tawba in the Qurʼan -- Early Sufi approaches to tawba. Tawba as interior conversion -- The states, stations & early Sufi apothegmata -- Four approaches to tawba in the early period -- Kharraz (d. 899) -- Sahl al-Tustari (d. 896) -- Junayd (d. 910) -- Wasiṭi (d. 936) -- Tawba in the writings of al-Ḥarith al-Muḥasibi (d. 857) -- Tawba in the nourishment of hearts of Abu Ṭalib al-Makki (d. 996) -- Conclusion. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 11, 2018). |
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| Subject: | Repentance -- Islam Sufism -- Doctrines |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
