Thesis (master's)--Jāmiʻat al-Kharṭūm, 1979. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-165).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: Robert A. Fernea and Deborah A. Kapchan. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1997. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: A, page: 1353. Adviser: Robert Launay.

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The eleventh and twelfth centuries represent a critical formative period for institutions and practices that characterized later Islam. Sufism also emerged during the same period as a distinct mode of piety that gained widespread acceptance in the aftermath of Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century. Using early Sufi biographies produced in Khorasan during that period, this study will argue that the early Sufis were not only preoccupied with locating their own tradition within the Islamic orthodoxy but also defining the contours of what constituted acceptable Islam. The sources used are predominantly Persian Sufi biographies composed in Khorasan which form the main body of historiography of Sufism.

Orientador: Ivan Esperança Rocha / Banca: Cecilia Cintra Cavaleiro de Macedo / Banca: Carlos Frederico Barboza de Souza / Resumo: O sufismo, conceito e paradigma acadêmico, conglomera algumas práticas e especulações místicas/esotéricas na religião islâmica. Tradicionalmente, encontrava-se já no momento da revelação corânica e no período de pregação de Muḥammad, sendo reelaborado e institucionalizado, ao longo dos séculos. Entre seus pensadores, Ibn ʿArabī de Múrcia, andaluz que viveu no século XII e XIII da Era Comum, foi ponto de referência, ao sistematizar esse aprofundamento em obras utilizadas por todo o mundo islâmico. Esta pesquisa intenta analisar a vida de santos muçulmanos andaluzes, empregando as hagiografias escritas pelo citado autor, contendo extratos biográficos de seus mestres, para, com isso, perceber como o autor propunha uma via sufi a seus discípulos, cujos modelos retomavam aqueles do Ocidente islâmico, em meados dos séculos XII e XIII E.C. Propõem-se, neste trabalho, uma abordagem histórica do movimento místico islâmico que influenciou um dos maiores mestres do sufismo, bem como uma análise das hagiografias islâmicas e do conceito de santidade do sufismo em Ibn ʿArabī / Abstract: Sufism, concept and academic paradigm, conglomerates mystical / esoteric practices and speculations in the Islamic religion. Traditionally, it was already present at the time of the Quranic revelation and in the preaching period of Muḥammad, being reworked and institutionalized over the centuries. Among its thinkers, Ibn ʿArabī of Murcia, Andalusian who lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries of the Common Era, was a point of reference when systematizing this deep understanding in works used throughout the Islamic world. This research seeks to analyze the life of Andalusian Islamic saints, using the hagiographies written by the mentioned author, containing biographical extracts of their masters, in order to understand how the thought and the Sufi way were organized in the Islamic West in the middle of the XII century and XIII EC. This work proposes a historical approach to the Islamic mystical movement that influenced one of the greatest masters of Sufism, as well as the proposition of an analisis of Islamic hagiographies and the concept of sanctity of Sufism in Ibn ʿArabī view / Mestre

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<p>The objective of this thesis was the translation of an original defence of Sufi practice titled &quot / A Kind word in response to those who reject sufism&quot / by Shaykh A&ograve / hmad ibn Mu&ograve / s&ograve / taf&aacute / &deg / Alaw&aring / i. This book was written in defence of Sufis and Sufism. This research provide some notes on the life, spiritual heritage and writings of the Shaykh &deg / Alaw&aring / i in conjunction with a critical introduction to complement the translated text. The Shaykh's methodology applied in his ijtih&aring / ad to validate and defend the Sufis and their practices was also reviewed.</p>