Islamic Esotericism, special issue, ed. Liana Saif Correspondences, vol. 7, no. 1 (2019)

Liana Saif

Black Studies Or African American Studies,

Ottoman History,

Postcolonial Studies,

Black/African Diaspora,

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1) Liana Saif. What is Islamic Esotericism?

 2) W. Sasson Chahanovich. Ottoman Eschatological Esotericism: Introducing Jafr in Ps. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s The Tree of Nuʿmān (al-Shajarah al-nuʿmāniyyah) 61–108

 3) Keith Cantú. Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir, 109–165

 4) Michael Muhammad Knight. “I am Sorry, Mr. White Man, These are Secrets that You are Not Permitted to Learn”: The Supreme Wisdom Lessons and Problem Book 167–200

 5) Biko Gray. The Traumatic Mysticism of Othered Others: Blackness, Islam, and Esotericism in the Five Percenters 201–237

 6) Francesco Piraino. Esotericisation and De-esotericisation of Sufism: The Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya Shādhiliyya in Italy, 239–276 

7) Mark Sedgwick. Islamic and Western Esotericism 277–299 109–165

Liana Saif

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School of Advanced Study, University of London
Post-Doc

I am currently a post-doctoral fellow for the ERC project "The origin and early development of philosophy in tenth-century al-Andalus: the impact of ill-defined materials and channels of transmission". My objective is to provide an in-depth analysis of the understudied Kitāb al-Baḥth attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, and to gauge its influence in al-Andalus. I will produce a critical edition and translation into English of the text. Before that, I was British Academy postdoctoral fellow at The Oriental Institute in the University of Oxford. Other projects: the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, the magic textʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq wa iḍāh al-ṭarāʾiq (‘The sources of truths and the explication of methods’) attributed to the alchemist Abū al-Qāsim al-ʿIrāqī (d. c. 1260)