Bayazid: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abu Yazid al-Bas?ami (d. ca. 234/848)

Bayazid: The Life and Teachings of the Mystic Abu Yazid al-Bas?ami (d. ca. 234/848)

Based on the Earliest Sources

Keeler, Annabel

Brill

11/2024

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration



Introduction



Part1 Bayazid's Life and His Speech



1 Bayazid's Life and his Teachers

?1?Family Background in Bas?am

?2?Bayazid's Education and his Teachers

?3?Bayazid as Spiritual Master in Bas?am: Veneration and Censure



2 Bayazid's Disciples and Associates

?1?Bayazid's Close Disciples

?2?Other Associates of Bayazid



3 The Question of Bayazid's Dates



4 The Speech of Bayazid

?1?The Corpus of Bayazid's Sayings

?2?Modes of Expression in the Speech of Bayazid



Part2 The Teachings of Bayazid, Fundamentals



5 The Path and Its Pitfalls

?1?Spiritual Psychology in Third-/Ninth-Century Mysticism

?2?Bayazid's Understanding of the Make-Up of the Human Being

?3?Pitfalls of the Path



6 On Some Pillars and Tenets of Islam

?1?Observing the Obligatory Practices

?2?The Hajj

?3?Messengers of God and the Prophet

?4?Paradise and Hell



7 What Bayazid Says about God

?1?God, His Names and Attributes

?2?Divine Transcendence and Inaccessibility

?3?Intimacy

?4?Awareness of God versus Heedlessness

?5?Nothing but Him



Part3 Further Dimensions of the Spiritual Path



8 Spiritual Virtues, States, and Stations

?1?Poverty

?2?Submission to the Divine Will

?3?Complete Trust in God

?4?Humility versus Arrogance

?5?Mindfulness of God (taqwa) and Veracity (?idq)

?6?Annihilation (fana?) and Subsistence (baqa?)

?7?Unification (jam?) and Separation (tafriqa)



9 Knowledge and Love

?1?Knowledge

?2?Love



10 Absence and Presence, Veils and Mirrors

?1?Absence (ghayba) and Presence (?udur)

?2?Veils and Veiling

?3?Mirrors



Part4 Bayazid as Spiritual Master and in the Community



11 Bayazid as Spiritual Master

?1?Bayazid's Homilies and Counsel to His Disciples

?2?Explanation of the Path for Others

?3?Female Disciples of Bayazid



12 Bayazid in the Wider Community

?1?Different Paths among the Muslims

?2?Bayazid under Censure: Challenges and Critiques

?3?Critique and Corrective

?4?Bayazid and his Zoroastrian Neighbours



Part5 Bayazid's Autobiographical Accounts



13 Bayazid's Accounts of His Spiritual Journey

?1?The Beginning of the Path and the Struggle with the Nafs

?2?Becoming Free of Self

?3?Descriptions of the Whole Journey



14 Spiritual Peregrination, Flight, and the Mi?raj



15 The Longer Mi?raj Narratives



Part6 Controversy, Paradox, and Contradiction



16 Sha??, Paradox, and the Paradoxical

?1?Definitions and Translations of the Shat?

?2?Ecstatic Utterances of Bayazid

?3?Paradoxes and the Paradoxical

?4?A Few Other Controversial Sayings



17 Apparent Contradictions

?1?Bayazid and "Miracles"

?2?The Sense of Pride (iftikhar) versus the Acknowledgement of Neediness (iftiqar)



Part7 After Bayazid



18 The Impact and Influence of Bayazid on Islamic Mysticism

?1?Early Responses to Bayazid

?2?Later Responses to the Sha??iyyat

?3?Bayazid's Wider Corpus in Sufi Literature

?4?Bayazid among Love Mystics

?5??A??ar and Rumi

?6?Ibn ?Arabi

?7?Influence versus Appropriation

?8?Abu l-?asan Kharaqani

?9?A Glimpse at Bayazid's Literary Influence



Conclusion & Closing Remarks



Bibliography

Index of People and Places

Index of Subjects and Terms
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