Sufism and theology (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This work sheds light on how the Sufis approached theological traditions and themes and practiced theology themselves, and also how the theologians approached different aspects of Sufism
pt. 1. Mystical theologies. Mystical theology and the traditionalist hermeneutics of Maybudī's Kashf al-Asrār / Annabel Keeler -- The all-comprehensive circle (al-Iḥāṭa): soul, intellect, and the oneness of existence in the doctrine of Ibn Sabʹīn / Vincent J. Cornell -- One aspect of the Akbarian turn in Shīʹī theology / Robert Wisnovsky -- Sufism and theology in the confessions of Ṣāʼin al-Dīn Turka Iṣfahānī (d. 830/1437) / Leonard Lewisohn -- A Sufi theology fit for a Shīʹī King: The Gawhar-i Murād of ʻAbd al-Razzāq Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661-2) / Sajjad Rizvi -- pt. Theological approaches to Sufism. The mystic and the sceptic on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī / Ayman Shihadeh -- Ibn Taymiyya's commentary on the Creed of al-Hạllāj / Yahya Michot -- Ibn Kemāl (d. 940/1534) on Ibn ʻArabī's hagiology / Tim Winter -- Scriptural Sufism and scriptural anti-Sufism: theology and mysticism among the Shīʻʻī Akhbāriyya / Robert Gleave -- Reconciling Sufism with theology: Abū l-Wafā al-Taftāzānī and the construct of 'al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmi' in modern Egypt / Andreas Christmann