Islamic Mysticism and Abu Talib Al-Makki by Yazaki Saeko

Author:Yazaki, Saeko.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2013-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

6 The influence of al-Makkī, part 1

Chapters 6 and 7 discuss al-Makkī and his work in pre-modern Muslim scholarship, from his time to the twelfth/eighteenth century, through an exploration of the way in which al-Makkī appears in Islamic literature, what kind of influence he exerts and what sort of criticism he receives. Chapter 6 will examine how al-Makkī is treated (or not treated) in works on Sufism and other religious sciences. Despite the great debt of notable writers on Sufism to the Qūt, well-known medieval Sufi hagiographies make no reference to al-Makkī. As al-Makkī’s major work, the Qūt, heavily relies on adīth rather than Sufi sayings as we have seen, this chapter will secondly explore major biographical dictionaries and adīth literary works.

In order to study the extensive attention given to Islamic piety in al-Makkī’s writing, Chapter 7 will focus on al-Makkī’s influence on four notable anbalī scholars who left literary works which mention al-Makkī in the fields of Kalām, Sufism, polemics, adīth, historiography and law. An exploration of the treatment of al-Makkī by those anbalī thinkers also reveals the complexity of the Sufi–anbalī relationship. This may challenge the general estimations that anbalī scholars are simply hostile towards Sufism due to its heretical views of the Divine and its religious practices.

The accounts of al-Makkī are widely scattered and it is also an aim of the present study to collate these materials to establish the basis on which further study can be hopefully developed.1 Additional important sources, which do not fall into these categories, are also studied in Chapter 6, especially when they do not seem to have been discussed extensively elsewhere. After an examination of historical narratives about al-Makkī, at the end of Chapter 7, concluding remarks are placed addressing possible reasons for al-Makkī’s presence or absence in works on Sufism. This raises questions of the fundamental meaning of mysticism in the history of Islam and problematises the way in which we study it.

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