Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
General Introduction xi Vincent J. Cornell and Bruce B. Lawrence
Part I Expressive Dimensions of Islamic Spirituality
Introduction to Part I Vincent J. Cornell
IA The Spirituality of Words and Letters
1 The Spirituality of the Qurʾān 23 Bruce B. Lawrence
2 The Spirituality of Hadith 44 Abbas Barzegar
3 The Spirituality of Invocations and Litanies in Islam 61 Kenneth Lee Honerkamp
4 The Many Spirits of the Islamic Past 74 Shahzad Bashir Copyrighted Material
5 Translating Sainthood in Islamic Hagiography 91 Vincent J. Cornell
IB The Spirituality of Places and Spaces
6 The Spiritual Meaning of Mecca, the Ka‘ba, and the Ḥajj 113 Gordon D. Newby
7 The Spiritual Meaning of Medina 130 Daoud Stephen Casewit
8 Jerusalem in Islamic Spirituality 147 Brannon Wheeler
9 The Spirituality of the Sufi Shrine 165 Carl W. Ernst
IC The Spirituality of People and Human Relations
10 The Spiritual Meaning of Muḥammad and the Prophets of Islam 183 Ali A. Allawi
11 The Spiritual Meaning of Devotion to the Shī‘ī Imams 202 Abdulaziz Sachedina
12 Spirituality and Gender in Islam 217 Sa‘diyya Shaikh
13 Spirituality and Social Justice in Islam 234 Mustafa Gokhan Sahin
Part II Performative Dimensions of Islamic Spirituality
Introduction to Part II Bruce B. Lawrence
IIA Devotional Practices in Islam
14 The Spirituality of Prayer in Islam 263 Hugh Talat Halman
15 The Spirituality of Qurʾān Recitation 277 Pieternella van Doorn-Harder
16 Ascetic Spirituality in Islam 297 Rkia Elaroui Cornell
17 The Spirituality of the Sufi Path 316 William C. Chittick
IIB Spirituality in Literature, Poetry, and the Visual Arts
18 Narrating Transcendence in the Modern Novel 333 miriam cooke
19 The Spirituality of Arab Islamic Poetry 352 Muhsin al-Musawi
20 The Spirituality of Persian Islamic Poetry 372 Franklin D. Lewis
21 Islamic Spirituality in English Translation 395 Michael Beard
22 Islamic Spirituality and the Visual Arts 412 Stefan Sperl
IIC Spirituality in Music, Song, and Cinema
23 Spirituality in Art Musics of the Islamic World 435 Ali Jihad Racy
24 The Spirituality of Qawwali: Lyrics and Ritual in the Sufi Music of South Asia 454 Scott Kugle
25 One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality 476 Negar Mottahedeh
IID Islamic Spirituality in the Anthropocene Age
26 Islamic Spirituality and the Internet 497 Gary R. Bunt
27 The Islamic Spirituality of HipHop 515 Michael Muhammad Knight
28 Ibn Taymiyya and the Case for a Salafism of Mercy 531 Yahya M. Michot
Index 545